Primož Gliha
| Primož Gliha | ||
 Primož Gliha as coach of
the Slovenian U-21 national team (2015) |
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| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | October 8, 1967 | |
| place of birth | Ljubljana , SFR Yugoslavia | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| NK Olimpija Ljubljana | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1986-1990 | NK Olimpija Ljubljana | 67 (15) |
| 1991 | Dinamo Zagreb | 2 (2) |
| 1992 | Yokohama wing | |
| 1993 | NK Krka | 7 (1) |
| 1993-1994 | NK Mura | 24 (15) |
| 1994-1995 | Železničar Ljubljana | 26 (13) |
| 1995-1997 | Chamois Niort | 56 (15) |
| 1997 | NK Slavija Vevče | 6 (3) |
| 1997-1998 | Hapoel Bet She'an | 0 (0) |
| 1998 | NK Olimpija Ljubljana | 7 (2) |
| 1998-1999 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | |
| 1999-2000 | FC Bnei Sachnin | 0 (0) |
| 2000-2001 | SAK Klagenfurt | ? (?) |
| 2001 | Zalaegerszegi TE FC | 5 (1) |
| 2001-2002 | ND Gorica | 6 (1) |
| 2002-2003 | Zalaegerszegi TE FC | |
| 2003-2005 | NK Ljubljana | 1 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1992-1998 | Slovenia | 28 (10) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2005-2007 | NK Olimpija Ljubljana | |
| 2007-2008 | NK Drava Ptuj | |
| 2008-2009 | ND Gorica | |
| 2009-2010 | ND Mura 05 | |
| 2010-2011 | FC Koper | |
| 2014 | Slovenia U-18 / U-19 | |
| 2015– | Slovenia U-21 | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Primož Gliha (born October 8, 1967 in Ljubljana , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Yugoslav, later Slovenian , football player on the position of a striker and current football coach .
His son Erik (* 1997) is also a professional football player.
Club career
Career start at home
Primož Gliha was born on October 8, 1967 in Ljubljana, the capital of the then Socialist Republic of Slovenia , and played for the local club NK Olimpija Ljubljana when he was young . In this he made the breakthrough in the men's team in the 1985/86 season with play in the third division, a purely Slovenian league. After the team had only been relegated from the top division in 1984 and to the third division in 1985, the season started in 1985/86. Although this season start Olimpija Ljubljana could still finish the season in third place in the table and was not far from his promotion to the next higher division; Gliha came under coach Zdenko Verdenik to ten league games and five goals. His debut game in the men's team was completed on August 25, 1985. The team acted much better in the following season 1986/87 and rose after 20 wins, six draws and not a single defeat as champions of the Slovenian group in the second highest Yugoslav football league; a difference of 64: 6 goals also showed a certain quality. Gliha, who was used in ten championship games this season under Nedeljko Gugolj , who held the coaching office from 1969 to 1973 and from 1982 to 1984, also contributed two goals.
In the western relay of the two-track Yugoslav second division, Olimpija Ljubljana took twelfth place in the table in the final standings. Due to a recent league reform and the merger of the East and West relay to form an all-Yugoslav second soccer league, the first nine teams were allowed to stay in this, while the last nine were relegated. Since Olimpija was the only team from SR Slovenia in the league, she was spared relegation and was allowed to stay in this. Under Miloš Šoškić Gliha should not have appeared this season; Also in various statistics there are no appearances of the young offensive player for this season. In the 1988/89 season, now 20 or 21 years old, Gliha was still not a regular in the team led by Šoškić. When the team around Janez Pate , Damir Vrabac , Zoran Ubavič , Peter Ameršek , Jedinko Perica , Džoni Novak , Robert Englaro , Nenad Podgajski or Aleš Čeh became champions after 38 games at the end of the season together with the runner-up, FK Borac Banja Luka , in the 1st Yugoslav League rose, the striker had only made 13 goalless championship appearances for him personally.
Return to excellence
In the highest football league of the SFR Yugoslavia, Gliha was now on the best way to become a regular and completed 24 of the 34 championship games and scored four goals. Eighth place at the end of the 1989/90 season was also linked to a starting place in the 1990 Intertoto Cup . In this group, the team finished second behind FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen and ahead of the two clubs FC Berlin and Grasshopper Club Zurich . The following season 1990/91, the last of the 1st Yugoslav soccer league, was less spectacular. After 36 championship games, Olimpija Ljubljana ranked 14th in the final standings and Gliha could not be called one of the top performers with four goals from only ten league games. Before the end of the season, the attacking player moved to the traditional club Dinamo Zagreb , at that time, at the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars, known under the name HAŠK Građanski , with whom he placed second in the table and a related starting position in the first round of the UEFA Cup Ended in 1991/92 . He scored as many goals in two league appearances for the Zagreb team this season.
Via Dinamo Zagreb to Japan and back to Slovenia
Born in Slovenia, he moved to Japan in 1992, where he signed a contract with the Yokohama Wings , which merged with the Yokohama Marinos to form Yokohama F. Marinos in 1999 . About League inserts Glihas in Japan is not known, but he took in September 1992 to at least two games of the J. League Cup of 1992 against Kashima Antlers and Nagoya Grampus part, where he scored a goal against the latter team. His stay in Japan remained a flying visit, as he returned to Slovenia in the spring of 1993 and was used here from March in seven league games of the NK Krka and contributed one goal. In the Slovenska Nogometna Liga 1993/94 , the third season of the highest Slovenian football league since independence from the SFR Yugoslavia, Primož Gliha moved to NK Mura , where he quickly became a driving force on the offensive. Under his former coach Miloš Šoškić he was next to Igor Poznič , Goran Gutalj and Robert Belec one of mostly four used strikers and thereby also the most dangerous goal. As a runner-up behind his training club Olimpija Ljubljana, Gliha ended the 1993/94 season with the club from Murska Sobota and was used in 24 of the 30 possible league games, where he was 15 times goalscorer. Furthermore, he was with the club in the final of the Slovenian Football Cup 1993/94 and lost in this after a 1-0 win in the first leg with 1: 3 in the second leg against NK Maribor , resulting in an overall result of 2: 3 and the title win led by the Mariborian .
The young striker was denied participation in the 1994/95 UEFA Cup , when NK Mura was already eliminated in the preliminary round by FC Aarau , as another club change had opened up for him before that. Already in the following season he appeared for Železničar Ljubljana, who was based in his hometown, and brought it to the railroad workers in a season that was characterized by various coach changes of the club, as a regular on the offensive in 26 championship appearances to 13 goals. Especially in the early days, Gliha attracted attention with double packs and a hat trick . After completing twelve games, he had already scored eleven goals before his scoring risk decreased noticeably from November 1994. Nevertheless, he was already being courted by international clubs at this time, so that a move abroad soon became apparent for the now 27-year-old.
Two seasons in France
Under the former football goalkeeper and one-time French national player Albert Rust , who now acted as football coach, he was used from the 1995/96 season for Chamois Niortais in the second highest football league in France . There the center forward quickly developed into a regular player, was used in 37 of 42 league games and was one of the most dangerous players in the West French team alongside the Brazilian Walquir Mota , although he had only scored seven goals by the end of the season. In the end, the team ranked with a largely balanced goal difference in 16th place in the table and was no longer far from a possible relegation place. In the following season 1996/97 Gliha started again with his team as extremely dangerous and could already show eight goals in 19 league games by August. Nevertheless, he turned his back on the French that year and came back to his homeland, where he signed on with NK Slavija Vevče , also based in his hometown , who was meanwhile also represented in the Slovenian first class. At the Niort club , Gliha made 56 league appearances and 15 goals, as well as six inter-season appearances in the Coupe de la Ligue .
Various stations in Slovenia and Israel
In his first game for Slavija Vevče on August 24, 1997, the now 29-year-old attacking player managed a goal in the 3: 4 away defeat against NK audience Celje , before he was replaced by Zoran Poglajen in the 61st minute of the game . In December 1997 he completed a test training at Sheffield Wednesday , which was represented at that time in the Premier League ; however, there was no obligation. After a total of seven games and three goals in the Slovenska Nogometna Liga in 1997/98 , the 1.80 m tall striker made another move abroad and moved to Hapoel Bet Sche'an in what was then the first-class Liga Leumit , which is now the second highest football league in Israel . After he could not assert himself here and apparently did not play a competitive game, he returned to Slovenia in 1998, where he was in the meantime with his training club Olimpija Ljubljana. After six games, which he had played between September and November 1998 in the highest football league in the country and twice scored goals, he found another job with an Israeli club. In the winter he switched to the traditional club Hapoel Tel Aviv , which, alongside Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa, is one of the most successful football clubs in the country. Nothing is known about the exact number of appearances at the local club, whose men's soccer team was looked after by Eli Cohen at the time . At least in 1998/99 Gliha won the Israeli soccer cup with the club and moved to the then second Israeli league for FC Bnei Sachnin , a soccer club of Arab Israelis , in which he was apparently not used again.
Career finale in Austria, Hungary and Slovenia
Finally, he moved to the 2000/01 season for SAK Klagenfurt with which he this season from the third-rate Austrian Regional center in the Carinthian State League relegation, which moved to the now 33-year-old Slovene another club move to it. From the club of the Carinthian Slovenes , he made the leap into professional football again when he was accepted in the current 2000/01 season at the Hungarian first division club Zalaegerszegi TE FC . Used in five league games, the Slovenian offensive player scored one goal. While the club took sixth place in the table in Group B in the first half of the season and thus just qualified for the final round, Gliha and the team in this came in tenth and thus managed to stay in the league. Before the club was able to achieve the greatest success in its 80-year history, the Slovenian left the club again and joined the ND Gorica in his home country Slovenia during the summer break before the 2001/02 season . Between August and September 2001, the 1.80 m tall right-footer was used in six championship games and contributed one goal; after that he was no longer part of the official squad. There were also two appearances in the first round of the 2001/02 UEFA Cup against NK Osijek , against whom they had to accept two defeats and so were eliminated from the competition. As in the previous season, the club from Nova Gorica were also Slovenian Cup winners in 2001/02 and qualified once again for the qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. Gliha played in the 2001/02 Slovenian Cup in an encounter in September; even then there were no stakes in this competition.
The further path led the once dangerous center forward to Zalaegerszeg again , where he laced his football boots for another season in 2002/03 . Nothing is known about any deployments; The various Hungarian statistics websites (such as magyarfutball.hu ) also do not show any usage data for Gliha for this season. From the 2003/04 season he deposited his player pass at NK Ljubljana and should only be used in the event of large-scale failures of the squad. The striker played his farewell game on October 15, 2004, a few days after his 37th birthday, when the coach, who was a year younger and his former teammate Safet Hadžić, lost him 4-1 away to his training club Olimpija Ljubljana from the 56th minute of the game for Gregor Režonja . He played through to the end and received a yellow card shortly before the final whistle in the 92nd minute of the game . Immediately after the end of his career, he took up a career as a football coach and began this with the said NK Olimpija Ljubljana, which was dissolved after financial difficulties and re-established as NK Bežigrad .
National team career
National player from the very beginning
Primož Gliha's career in the Slovenian national team began immediately after the split from SFR Yugoslavia, when he was used in the first - mostly unofficial - international match against Croatia on June 19, 1991 at the Fazanerija Stadium in Murska Sobota under coach Bojan Prašnikar . He played from the start and was replaced by Matej Vidovič from the 80th minute of the game ; the game ended after a goal by Fabijan Komljenović in a 1-0 victory for the Croatians. When Slovenia played its first official international match against Estonia on June 3, 1992 , Gliha was again with the game and came under Prašnikar to his official international debut. After he was not considered in the following two internationals in November 1992 and April 1993, he came only on October 13, 1993 in a 4-1 win over Macedonia for his second international appearance. Since the Slovenian national team was only allowed to play friendly matches due to the pending admission to UEFA and FIFA , Prašnikar resigned voluntarily in December 1993. He was followed in 1994 by Zdenko Verdenik , under whom Gliha became a regular in the national team of his home country.
Regular player under Zdenko Verdenik
Already in his third international match, a 1-0 win over Georgia on February 8, 1994, the center forward scored his first goal for Slovenia. Gliha was also used in the other two games on the occasion of this year's Malta (Rothmans) International Tournaments and also scored the decisive goal in the last game, a 1-0 win over hosts Malta . Slovenia subsequently completed four more friendly internationals between the end of March 1994 and the beginning of June 1994; Gliha was on duty in two of them. After that, the Slovenes played ten qualifying games for the European Championship in 1996 over a period of one year from September 1994 to November 1995 and did not appear in any other international matches or even in friendly matches. Gliha was used in all ten qualifying games, but could not help his home country to participate in a major tournament for the first time. Slovenia finished the European Championship qualification as fifth in Group A and with at least eleven points. Gliha scored three goals in ten appearances.
From 1996 the stakes of the then just 28-year-old offensive player decreased somewhat. Of the eight possible missions in 1996, he only completed four games and scored one goal. Here he completed his first qualifying game for a soccer world championship on April 24, 1996 , when he was used in a 2-0 defeat against Greece . He also took part in this qualification the following year, 1997, after having played a preparatory game against Austria in March and scored a goal. He then played five more European Championship qualifiers under Verdenik and even scored a hat trick in a 3-3 draw against Croatia on April 2nd . With 5:20 goals and only a single point from eight qualifying games, Slovenia ranked last in Group 1 at the end of the qualification, whereupon Zdenko Verdenik had to give up his coaching position and Bojan Prašnikar took over again. The now 30-year-old Gliha was hardly taken into account afterwards and completed his last international match for Slovenia on October 14, 1998 in a qualifying match for the European Championship 2000 . For his home country Primož Gliha came in a total of 28 - if you count the unofficial in 1991, then in 29 - international matches and scored ten goals. With his ten goals, he still ranks among the top 10 Slovenian record scorers today (as of 2018).
Coaching career
Rapid ascent with the NK Bežigrad
Immediately after the end of his career, he struck a career as a football coach and began this at NK Olimpija Ljubljana, which was dissolved after financial difficulties and re-established as NK Bežigrad . Founded on March 2nd, 2005, the men's team started in the fifth highest Slovenian football league in 2005/06. With the goal-threatening veteran Zoran Ubavič , who scored 17 goals as the team's top scorer, the team rose to the next higher division after 16 wins and a draw from 17 league games. In this again veterans like Miran Pavlin and the meanwhile 41-year-old Zoran Ubavič were able to act as top performers and were the two best scorers of the NK Bežigrad with 24 goals each. With his supervised team Gliha came in the 2006/07 season on a record of 19 wins and three draws from 22 league games, and a goal difference of 91:13. This sealed the renewed rise. After two extremely successful seasons without a competitive game, Gliha was poached by a Slovenian first division team and gave his coaching post at NK Bežigrad to his former teammate Janez Pate . This rose with the team in 2007/08 in the second division and in 2008/09 in the top division of the country. Primož Gliha was after his poaching for one season coach of the men's team of NK Drava Ptuj . The 2007/08 season finished the team on the ninth of ten places in the table and then had to go into relegation, which was won with a total score of 2: 1 against SC Bonifika .
Various other stations in the 1st and 2nd SNL
Although the relegation Gliha left the club at the end of the season and came within the Slovenian first class to ND Gorica, where he replaced Darko Milanič , who began his career as a successful coach of NK Maribor . The ND Gorica looked after Gliha from the beginning of the 2008/09 season to mid-March 2009, before he was replaced by Miran Srebrnič , who later became the Slovenian runner-up with the team. In the 2008/09 Slovenian Football Cup , the team also made it to the semi-finals and lost to FC Koper with an overall result of 3: 4 . In the summer break before the 2009/10 season , the former offensive player signed a contract with the Slovenian second division club ND Mura 05 and carried out his coaching office until the beginning of February 2010. In the current winter break, he ranked third with the club and was then without a club for a little over a year before he took over as coach at FC Koper. But even here he was not long in office; After less than seven months, Gliha was released from his duties by the reigning champions shortly before the end of the season in April 2011. Under interim coach Nedžad Okčič , who took over until the end of the 2010/11 season , the club from the port of Koper reached a third place in the final standings.
Engagement with the Slovenian Football Association
In the following years Gliha was without a club or worked for the Slovenian Football Association. In 2014, he briefly took over the position of training manager for the Slovenian U-18 and U-19 national team before he became the coach of the Slovenian U-21 national team at the beginning of 2015 . With this he took part in the qualifications for the U-21 World Championships in 2015 and 2017 , for which Slovenia was unable to qualify. Today (as of July 2018) Primož Gliha is still the coach of the Slovenian U-21 national team and is currently qualifying for the U-21 World Cup in 2019 .
Others
In 2015, Swiss leaks revealed that Gliha had a secret account with the Swiss branch of HSBC for a period of four years . He opened the account two months before he officially moved to France in 1995, and his wife Irena was also authorized to access the account. The account was closed again on January 18, 1999, after Gliha was already under contract with Hapoel Tel Aviv and now used an Israeli account, since transferring the money to Slovenia was considered too risky.
Success as a player
Club successes
- with the NK Olimpija Ljubljana
- Champion of the 3rd Yugoslav Football League - Slovenian group: 1986/87
- Champion of the 2nd Yugoslav Football League: 1988/89
- with Dinamo Zagreb
- with the NK Mura
- with Hapoel Tel Aviv
- with the ND Gorica
Success as a trainer
- with the NK Bežigrad ( NK Olimpija Ljubljana )
- Champion of the Slovenian 5th division: 2005/06
- Slovenian 4th league champion: 2006/07
Web links
- Primož Gliha in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Primož Gliha on eu-football.info (English)
- Primož Gliha on the official website of the Slovenian PrvaLiga (Slovenian)
- Primož Gliha on the official website of the Slovenian Football Association (Slovenian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1985 ➡️ Na današnji dan pred 33 leti je v dresu Olimpije debitiral Primož Gliha. Zmaji so igrali tekmo slovenske lige proti Iliriji in zmagali z 1: 0. (Slovenian), accessed July 2, 2019
- ↑ Football: This Week's Transfers , accessed July 23, 2018
- ↑ Primož Gliha on magyarfutball.hu (Hungarian), accessed on July 23, 2018
- ↑ a b Croatia - International Matches 1990–1995 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on July 23, 2018
- ↑ a b Slovenia 0 - 1 Croatia on footballdatabase.eu (English), accessed on July 23, 2018
- ↑ a b c Swiss Leaks: z računom v HSBC tudi nogometaš Primož Gliha (video) (Slovenian), accessed on July 22, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gliha, Primož |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav, later Slovenian, football player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ljubljana , SFR Yugoslavia |