Goran Petreski ( mk, Горан Петрески) (born 23 May 1972 in SFR Yugoslavia) is a football coach from

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Playing career

Club

He played for

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, with whom he won his newly independent country's first three league titles.

Pohang Steelers (2001–2004)

Petreski joined

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side Pohang Steelers at the beginning of the 2001 season. He played in 25 of Pohang's 27 regular league season matches that year scoring eight times and finishing joint fifth top scorer in the league and top scorer at Pohang. In 2002 he netted nine times in 23 appearances, again top scorer at his club. He finally hit double figures in the

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as he netted ten goals in 40 appearances but finished second-top Pohang goalscorer behind Woo Sung-Yong that year who hit fifteen. In the 2004 regular season he found goals a lot harder to come by, scoring just once in 26 appearances as Pohang finished runners-up to Suwon Samsung Bluewings in that year's

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final. Petreski made a total of 114 regular league appearances during his time in Korea scoring 28 times. Including

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competitions he scored 38 goals in 141 appearances. He collected runners-up medals in the 2004 K-League Championship and the

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finals of 2001 and 2002 but did not win any silverware during his stay in Korea.

International

He made his senior debut for Macedonia in a May 1994

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against

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and has earned a total of 4 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a March 1996 friendly against

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Petreski, Goran 1972 births Living people Sportspeople from Skopje Men's association football forwards Yugoslav footballers Macedonian footballers North Macedonia men's international footballers FK Vardar players NK Čakovec players Pohang Steelers players Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav Second League players Macedonian First Football League players Croatian Football League players K League 1 players Macedonian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Croatia Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Expatriate footballers in South Korea Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in South Korea Macedonian football managers FK Rabotnički managers