Mladen Dabanovič (born 13 September 1971) is a Slovenian retired
footballer
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who played as a
goalkeeper.
Club career
Dabanovič grew up in
Slovenske Konjice and began playing football for local side
Dravinja. He started his professional career with
Maribor
Maribor ( , , , ; also known by other #Name, historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Styria (Slovenia), Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor, th ...
and
Rudar Velenje
Nogometni klub Rudar Velenje ( en, Rudar Velenje Football Club), commonly referred to as NK Rudar Velenje or simply Rudar Velenje, is a Slovenian football club from Velenje which competes in the Slovenian Second League.
History
The club was fo ...
, before moving to
Belgian side
Sporting Lokeren
Koninklijke Sporting Club Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen (; often simply called Sporting Lokeren or Lokeren) was a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Lokeren, in the province of East Flanders. The club was founded in 1923 but ce ...
in 1999. In January 2004, he returned to Slovenia where he played for
Drava Ptuj
Nogometni klub Drava Ptuj ( en, Drava Ptuj Football Club), commonly referred to as NK Drava Ptuj or simply Drava, was a Slovenian football club, which played in the town of Ptuj. Named after the Drava river which flows through the town, Drava P ...
for four seasons.
He works as a goalkeeper coach at
Aluminij
Aluminij is a Bosnian aluminium manufacturing company with headquarters in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2016, it was one of the largest regional producers of aluminium with sales of 156,500 tons of aluminium, and third-largest exporte ...
.
International career
Dabanovič made his debut for
Slovenia in an August 1998
friendly match away against
Hungary, coming on as a 46th-minute substitute for the legendary
Marko Simeunovič
Marko Simeunovič (born 6 December 1967) is a former Slovenian Association football, footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He represented his country at two major tournaments, UEFA European Championship, Euro 2000 and the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
...
, and earned a total of 25 caps, scoring no goals. He was the country's first-choice goalkeeper at the
Euro 2000 finals and played in all of their three group matches at the tournament. He also played for Slovenia in their group match against
Paraguay at the
2002 FIFA World Cup
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finals. His final international was a November 2003
European Championship qualification match against
Croatia.
Honours
Maribor
*
Slovenian Cup:
1991–92,
1993–94
Rudar Velenje
*
Slovenian Cup:
1997–98
See also
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Slovenian international players
*
NK Maribor players
References
External links
Player profileat NZS
*
1971 births
Living people
Footballers from Maribor
Men's association football goalkeepers
Yugoslav men's footballers
Slovenian men's footballers
Slovenia men's international footballers
UEFA Euro 2000 players
2002 FIFA World Cup players
NK Maribor players
NK Rudar Velenje players
K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen players
NK Drava Ptuj (1933) players
NK Aluminij players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Belgian Pro League players
Slovenian expatriate men's footballers
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
Association football goalkeeping coaches
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