Robert Volk

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Robert Volk
Personal information
Date of birth (1965-08-30) 30 August 1965 (age 58)
Place of birth Koper, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) [1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
0000–1991 Koper
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1991–1994 Koper 48 (0)
1994–1997 Gorica 25 (0)
1994–1995 → Mura (loan) 29 (0)
1996 → Rudar Velenje (loan) 0 (0)
1997–1998 Primorje 24 (0)
1998–2000 Sint-Truiden 18 (0)
2000–2003 Koper 12 (0)
2005–2009 Olimpija Ljubljana 42+ (0)
Total198+(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Robert Volk (born 30 August 1965) is a retired Slovenian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the goalkeeping coach at Koper. [2]

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Playing career

Volk had a spell abroad at Belgian side Sint-Truiden [3] and was called up one time by the Slovenia national team, but was an unused substitute in a 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. [4]

At the end of his playing career, Volk was both playing and serving as the goalkeeping coach for Olimpija Ljubljana in the Slovenian lower tiers. In the spring of 2009, he decided to retire as a player in order to free up a first-team spot for Jan Oblak, who at the time was a 16-year-old academy goalkeeper. [5] Volk made 156 top-flight appearances during his career, with 138 of those coming in the Slovenian PrvaLiga. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Robert Volk at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ "Robert Volk profile – FC Koper". FC Koper (in Slovenian). Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  3. ↑ Clerinx, Marc (25 February 2000). "Robert Volk heeft bedenkingen bij terugkeer naar Slovenië: "Ik hoop dat men correct is"". Het Belang van Limburg (in Dutch). Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  4. ↑ Robert Volk at Soccerway. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Planinšič Jr., Borut (19 May 2018). "S "ta mali je boljši od mene" se je začelo" [It started with “this little one is better than me”]. Večer (in Slovenian). Časnik Večer, d.o.o. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  6. ↑ "Robert Volk at Nogometna zveza Slovenije". Football Association of Slovenia . Retrieved 16 October 2020.


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