Marko Pridigar

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Marko Pridigar
Personal information
Date of birth (1985-05-18) 18 May 1985 (age 38)
Place of birth Maribor, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Železničar Maribor
0000–2004 Maribor
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2004–2014 Maribor 117 (0)
2005 → Paloma (loan) 8 (0)
2006 → Aluminij (loan) 8 (0)
2015 Zavrč 7 (0)
2015–2016 Ayia Napa 13 (0)
2016 Fylkir 6 (0)
2017–2019 Rudar Velenje 55 (0)
Total214(0)
International career
2004 Slovenia U19 1 (0)
2005 Slovenia U20 2 (0)
2005–2006 Slovenia U21 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marko Pridigar (born 18 May 1985) is a Slovenian retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper. [1]

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Club career

Pridigar started his career in the youth ranks of Maribor, where he also signed his first professional contract. He made his debut in the Slovenian PrvaLiga at the age of 20 in a match against Nafta Lendava. [2] During his first years as a professional, he was competing for the place in the first team with Marko Ranilović. He was the first-choice goalkeeper during the 2007–08 and 2008–09 seasons as he played most of the league matches at that time. In the next season (2009–10) he lost his place in the starting eleven to Ranilović and played a total of eleven matches in the first league. [3] During this period, he was also injured for a couple of months.

He was the first-choice goalkeeper at Maribor at the beginning of the 2010–11 season. However, he suffered another injury halfway through the first part of the season and was sidelined again. At the beginning of the second part of the season, Pridigar returned to the team, but was injured again in the first match after his return against Olimpija, when an opponent player stepped on his hand and fractured the bone in his palm in three different places. Pridigar was operated on 17 March 2011, and was sidelined for the rest of the season. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Rudar: Bivši vratar Maribora v pokoj, še en bivši Mariborčan pa na gol" (in Slovenian). Nogomania. 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  2. ↑ "Nafta 1–0 Maribor Pivovarna Laško" (in Slovenian). Slovenian PrvaLiga. 13 May 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "Marko Pridigar" (in Slovenian). Football Association of Slovenia . Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  4. ↑ "Pridigar uspešno operiran" [Pridigar's surgery was successful] (in Slovenian). Nogomania. 17 March 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
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