Matjaž Florijančič (born 18 October 1967 in
Kranj) is a former
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...
n
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player.
Career
Florijančič played most of his career in
Italy
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, where he moved in 1991 to sign for
Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...
club
Cremonese. He then played for several other Serie A and
B teams, such as
Torino
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and
Empoli. He retired in 2001, after a
Serie C2 campaign with
Pro Sesto
Pro Sesto 1913 S.r.l. (formerly ''Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Nuova Pro Sesto'' and initially ''Associazione Calcio Pro Sesto'') is an association football club, based in Sesto San Giovanni, Lombardy, Italy. Pro Sesto currently plays ...
.
Florijančič made 20 appearances for the
Slovenia national football team
The Slovenia national football team ( sl, Slovenska nogometna reprezentanca) represents Slovenia in men's international football and is controlled by the Football Association of Slovenia, the governing body for football in Slovenia. The squad ...
from 1993 to 1999.
Career statistics
Player
See also
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Slovenian international players
References
External links
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Profile at Lega Serie B
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1967 births
Living people
Slovenian men's footballers
Slovenia men's international footballers
Yugoslav men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
HNK Rijeka players
US Cremonese players
Torino FC players
Empoli FC players
Fidelis Andria 2018 players
FC Crotone players
Pro Sesto 1913 players
Virtus Bergamo Alzano Seriate 1909 players
Yugoslav First League players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Slovenian expatriate men's footballers
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Footballers from Kranj
HNK Rijeka non-playing staff