Aleksander "Sandi" Lah was a

Slovenian Slovene or Slovenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Slovenia, a country in Central Europe * Slovene language, a South Slavic language mainly spoken in Slovenia * Slovenes The Slovenes, also known as Slovenians ( sl, Sloven ...

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

Career

Sandi Lah is mentioned at

ND Ilirija 1911 Nogometno društvo Ilirija 1911 is a Slovenian football club from Ljubljana which competes in the Slovenian Second League. The club was founded in June 1911 and is the oldest still active football club in the country. History SK Ilirija (1911� ...

official website as one of their best and most successful young players in club history.Tradicija
at ND Ilirija 1911 official website, retrieved 22-1-2017 In 1931, he started playing for the youth team but was immediately incorporated to the main team of Ilirija. He played for Ilirija in the qualifiers for the

1932–33 Yugoslav Football Championship The 1932–33 Yugoslav Football Championship ( Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1932/33 / Државно првенство 1932/33) was the 11th season of Kingdom of Yugoslavia's premier football competition. League table Results Win ...

in both games played against AŠK Primorje which they lost 2–3 and 1–2. Curiously, he then played with AŠK Primorje after the two clubs merged, and subsequently with

SK Ljubljana Sport klub Ljubljana ( en, Ljubljana Sports Club), commonly referred to as SK Ljubljana, was a Slovenian football club from Ljubljana. The club was founded in April 1936 on the basis of football section of ASK Primorje. SK Ljubljana was dissolv ...

playing with them in the

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...

three consecutive seasons between 1935 and 1938.Aleksander Lah
at exyufudbal.in.rs It was then that he achieved his highlight in his career when he moved to Yugoslav capital Belgrade and joined

FK BASK FK BASK (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК БАСК) is a football club from Savski Venac, Belgrade, Serbia. It is one of the oldest clubs in Serbia. The club currently competes in the Serbian League Belgrade (3rd tier). BASK are the initials of ''Beogradsk ...

playing with them in the

1938–39 Yugoslav Football Championship The 1938–39 Yugoslav Football Championship ( Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1938/39 / Државно првенство 1938/39) was the 16th season of Kingdom of Yugoslavia's premier football competition. League Results Winning s ...

. On January 6, 1939, Yugoslav most popular daily newspaper,

Politika ''Politika'' ( sr-Cyrl, Политика; ''Politics'') is a Serbian daily newspaper, published in Belgrade. Founded in 1904 by Vladislav F. Ribnikar, it is the oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in the Balkans. Publishing and owners ...

choose the best players of the main top-league clubs to ask them about their reading habits, and Lah was chosen among BASK players having said his preference was the Russian literature. In 1950, he headed the reestablishment of the football section at Ilirija.Popoteh zeleno-bele stare dame iz Zgornje Šiške
at snportal.si, 21-12-2014, retrieved 22-1-2017

References

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