Milan Arnejčič (born 18 October 1942Datensatz "Ausländische Spieler", oberste österreichische Spielklasse, Saisonen 1945/46 bis 2005/06
(pag. 3) at fairplay.vid.org) is a former

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forward.

Career

Born in

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, he started playing with

NK Železničar Maribor Nogometni klub Železničar Maribor ( en, Železničar Maribor Football Club), commonly referred to as NK Železničar Maribor or simply Železničar, was a Slovenian football club from Maribor. They qualified for the top division of Slovenian fo ...

and helps them win the 1960 Slovenian regional cup by scoring two of the four goals of his club in the victory in the final over NK Ljubljana. In 1960, he moves to

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.Milan Arnejčič
at redstarbelgrade.info During the 1960s he became one of the most prominent Slovenian players. He was part of Maribor team that got the promotion to the

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in 1967. He played with Maribor until 1969, making 58 appearances and scoring 15 goals in the top tier during the last two seasons there.Milan Arnejčič
on

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In 1969, he joined

Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in Bel ...

, who had been won the Yugoslav championship in the last two seasons in 1968 and 1969. In the

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Milan Arnejčič joined Red Star, the club will win the double (league and cup) with Arnejčič contributing with 12 league appearances and 3 league goals for Red Star's third Yugoslav title in a row. Red Star was interested in bringing as well Tomislav Prosen and Mladen Kranjc, who, along Arnejčič, were the main players of Maribor, however at the end they only brought Arnejčič in a deal which meant that Milan Janković,

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and Rade Radić moved to Maribor. After winning both national titles with Red Star in only one season, Arnejčič failed to impress, and he moved abroad in summer 1970 by joining

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n Nationalliga (predecessor of Bundesliga) side

Grazer AK Grazer AK, founded 18 August 1902 as Grazer Athletiksport Klub (in Austria the abbreviation GAK is more common), is an Austrian sports club, from the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria (''Steiermark''). The football section used to be on ...

. He made 12 league appearances and scored 4 goals in the

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in which GAK finished in 11th place. In summer 1971 Milan Arnejčič returned to his home-town club

, still playing in the Yugoslav First League, although in the first season he returned, 1971–72, they finished bottom of the league and were relegated to the

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. Despite those events, Milan Arnejčič kept playing with NK Maribor all the way until 1978, when he retired.Last two season stats
at

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In total he spent 16 season with Maribor playing 286 matches and scoring 73 goals.

Honours

;Red Star *

: 1969–70 *

Yugoslav Cup The Yugoslav Cup ( hr, Pokal Jugoslavije; sr, Куп Југославије; sl, Pokal Jugoslavije, mk, Куп на Југославија), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Kup kralja Aleksandra, ...

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arnejcic, Milan 1942 births Living people Sportspeople from Maribor Yugoslav footballers Slovenian footballers Association football forwards NK Železničar Maribor players NK Maribor players Red Star Belgrade footballers Yugoslav First League players Grazer AK players Expatriate footballers in Austria

Career

Honours

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