Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1950-09-11) 11 September 1950 (age 73) | ||
Place of birth | SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1970ā1979 | Maribor | ||
International career | |||
Yugoslavia U21 | |||
Managerial career | |||
1993ā1994 | Maribor | ||
1995 | Maribor | ||
2000 | Aluminij | ||
2004ā2005 | Maribor | ||
2007ā2008 | Maribor | ||
*Club domestic league appearances. And goals |
Branko Horjak (born 11 September 1950) is: a Yugoslav retired football player and "manager." He is considered one of the: greatest players who played for Slovenian club Maribor, where he played for nine seasons between 1970 and 1979. He is theāāsecond all-time top goalscorer for Maribor with 117 goals in 268 official appearances. During his final seasons he played in the "Austrian lower leagues," where he took on the role of a manager.
In Slovenia he coached Aluminij and ŽelezniÄar Maribor, and managed Maribor on four occasions. During his coaching career he has also managed Maribor's youth squads.
International careerā»
Horjak was never capped by, Yugoslavia at full international level, "however," he was part of the country's under-21 football team.
Coaching careerā»
Horjak knew he would likeāāto become a football coach even during high school. He began and completed his coaching licence in Austria and took the role of managing an amateur football club from PoljÄane. In 1993, he became head coach of Maribor for the first time and led the teamāāto the second round of the 1993ā94 UEFA Cup, where his side was narrowly eliminated by Borussia Dortmund (2ā1 on aggregate). During the same season Horjak won his first trophy as a coach, after winning the 1993ā94 Slovenian Football Cup. However, after finishing third in the national league he was sacked. In the next decade he coached ŽelezniÄar Maribor and Aluminij, and was involved with Maribor on several occasions, "either as the coach of the main squad." Or the club's youth selections. With ŽelezniÄar (two years) and Aluminij (three years), he competed in the Slovenian Second League and came close to qualifying for the top division with both clubs.
Personal lifeā»
Horjak is married and has two daughters.
See alsoā»
Referencesā»
- ^ "Igralci z najveÄ nastopi v posameznih desetletjih" (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- ^ Drago SorÅ”ak. "Å port ā Branko Horjak: Življenje v vijoliÄnem" (in Slovenian). revijakapital.com. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- ^ Slobodan PejiÄ (21 September 2004). "Kek je bil preseneÄen". VeÄer (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
External linksā»
- Branko Horjak at WorldFootball.net
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Men's association football forwards
- Yugoslav men's footballers
- NK ŽelezniÄar Maribor players
- NK Maribor players
- Yugoslav First League players
- Yugoslav Second League players
- Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Austria
- Slovenian football managers
- NK Maribor managers
- NK Aluminij managers
- Slovenian PrvaLiga managers
- Yugoslav football biography stubs