Josip Golubar

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Josip Golubar
Personal information
Full name Josip Golubar
Date of birth (1985-03-04) 4 March 1985 (age 40)
Place of birth Krkanec, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Podravina
Youth career
Varteks
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
–2005 Nedeljanec
2005–2006 Sankt Michael
2008 Neuberg 10 (1)
2008–2009 Stegersbach 15 (5)
2009–2012 Varaždin 66 (5)
2012 RNK Split 11 (0)
2012–2014 Zavrč 56 (18)
2014–2015 Olimpija Ljubljana 8 (0)
2015–2016 Zavrč 17 (4)
2016–2017 Varaždin 17 (9)
2017 Lučko 7 (2)
2017–2019 Varaždin 41 (7)
2019 Valour FC 3 (0)
2020 SV Neuberg 1 (0)
2020– Varteks
2021- Podravina
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:27, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Josip Golubar (born 4 March 1985) is a Croatian footballer who plays as a midfielder for NK Podravina.

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Career

Early career

Golubar played at youth level with hometown club Varteks (later renamed Varaždin). [1] He spent much of his early senior career in the Austrian Landesliga. [2]

Stegersbach

In 2008, Golubar signed with Austrian Regionalliga club SV Stegersbach. [2] He made 15 appearances that season, scoring five goals. [2]

Varaždin

In 2009, Golubar returned to Croatia and signed with First League side Varaždin, near his home town. [3]

On 14 July 2011, Golubar made his European debut in the Europa League second qualifying round against Moldovan side Iskra-Stal. [4] He went on to make four Europa League appearances that season, scoring one goal. [3]

RNK Split

In winter 2012, Golubar signed with RNK Split. [2] [3]

Zavrč

In the summer 2012, Golubar signed with Slovenian Second League side Zavrč. [2] [3] In his first season in Slovenia, he made 24 appearances and scored 13 goals, tying Amer Krcić for top scorer in the league. [3] [5] Zavrč won the league that season and earned promotion to the PrvaLiga. [5]

In the 2013–14 PrvaLiga, Golubar made 32 appearances for Zavrč, scoring five goals, and helping the club to a fifth-place finish, missing out on a Europa League spot by five points. [3]

Olimpija Ljubljana

In the summer 2014, Golubar signed with Olimpija Ljubljana. [3] He would make a total of thirteen league appearances for Olimpija before leaving the club in September 2015. [3]

Second spell at Zavrč

Shortly after leaving Olimpija, Golubar returned to Zavrč for a second spell, making 17 league appearances and scoring four goals that season. [3]

Second spell at Varaždin

In summer 2015, Golubar returned to Croatia and signed with Varaždin for a second spell, this time in the Third League. [6]

Lučko

Midway through the 2016–17 season, Golubar left Varaždin to sign with Croatian Second League club Lučko. [3] Over the remainder of the season, he made seven league appearances and scored two goals. [3]

Third spell at Varaždin

After Varaždin earned promotion to the Croatian Second League, Golubar re-signed again on 6 July 2017. [6] In the 2017–18 season he made 29 league appearances, scoring four goals, and scored the lone goal in Varažin's 1–2 Croatian Football Cup loss to Cibalia. [3] He helped Varaždin to a second-place finish in the Croatian Second Football League, earning a spot in the promotion playoff against Istra 1961, which they lost 3–2 on aggregate. [3]

On 23 January 2019, Golubar and Varaždin agreed to the mutual termination of his contract so that he could pursue opportunities abroad. [7]

Valour FC

On 14 February 2019, Golubar signed with new Canadian Premier League side Valour FC. [2] Golubar only got to play in three games for Valour during the 2019 Canadian Premier League season due to sustaining a season ending injury early on. [8] On 29 November 2019, the club announced that Golubar would not be returning for the 2020 season. [9]

Return to Neuberg

On 21 January 2020, Golubar signed with his former club SV Neuberg, now playing in the Burgenland 2. Liga Süd of the Austrian 2. Landesliga. [10]

Varteks

Varteks

Honours

Zavrč

Individual

References

  1. Ivan Tomašković (2 January 2020). "Golubar: U Kanadi sam nakon ozljede umalo dobio sepsu...'" (in Croatian). 24Sata. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Valour FC signs Croatian midfielder Josip Golubar from NK Varazdin". Canadian Premier League. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Josip Golubar". Soccerway. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  4. "Iskra-Stal vs. Varaždin – 14 July 2011". Soccerway. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  5. 1 2 "2. SNL 2012/13". Soccerway. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  6. 1 2 Martin Novosel (6 July 2017). "Nakon samo pola godine izbivanja, u NK Varaždin se vratio Josip Golubar" (in Croatian). Varaždinke vijesti. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  7. Damir Ivančić (23 January 2019). "Josip Golubar i NK Varaždin danas su sporazumno raskinuli ugovor ali ima i dolazaka" (in Croatian). eVaraždin. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  8. "Inaugural Season Year in Review – Valour FC" . Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  9. "Valour FC Roster Moves". Valour FC. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.[ permanent dead link ]
  10. Patrick Bauer (22 January 2020). "Golubar und das Denken an früher" (in German). BVZ. Retrieved 23 January 2020.