Aleš Kokot (born 23 October 1979) is a

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n retired

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player.

Club career

Born in

Šempeter pri Gorici Šempeter pri Gorici (, also generally known simply as ''Šempeter''; ) is a town and the administrative seat of the Municipality of Šempeter-Vrtojba in the Slovene Littoral region of Slovenia. There is a border crossing into the Italian town of ...

in western Slovenia, Kokot spent his childhood in the nearby town of

Nova Gorica Nova Gorica () is a town in western Slovenia, on the border with Italy. It is the seat of the Municipality of Nova Gorica. Nova Gorica is a planned town, built according to the principles of modernist architecture after 1947, when the Treaty of pe ...

. He started his career at his home club Gorica. There he played eight seasons, winning Prva liga and Slovenian Cup two times before moving to German side

SpVgg Greuther Fürth Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth (), commonly known as Greuther Fürth (), is a Football in Germany, German football club based in Fürth, Bavaria. They play in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system, following r ...

in 2005. Two years later he joined

SV Wehen SV Wehen Wiesbaden is a German association football club based in Wiesbaden, Hesse. The club was previously known as ''SV Wehen'' but added ''Wiesbaden'' to its name during the summer of 2007. They left their previous ground, the Taunusstein, t ...

. After another two seasons in Second German league he joined

Interblock Ljubljana Nogometni klub IB 1975 Ljubljana, known simply as NK IB 1975 Ljubljana, is a Slovenian football club based in Ljubljana {{Infobox settlement , name = Ljubljana , official_name = , settlement_type = Capital city , ima ...

on 23 June 2009. He was released by Interblock on 24 October 2009 and signed in February 2010 for

Kecskeméti TE Kecskeméti Testedző Egyesület, commonly known as Kecskeméti TE or simply Kecskemét, is a sports club based in Kecskemét, Hungary. It is most famous for its Association football, football section which competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II ...

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International career

Kokot made his debut for

in a February 2004

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against

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, coming on as a 65th-minute substitute for Amir Karić, and earned a total of 10 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a February 2008 friendly against

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Honours

Gorica

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: 2003–04, 2004–05 * Slovenian Cup: 2000–01, 2001–02

References

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Aleš Kokot
at NZS * 1979 births Living people Sportspeople from Nova Gorica Men's association football fullbacks Slovenian men's footballers 21st-century Slovenian sportsmen Slovenia men's youth international footballers Slovenia men's under-21 international footballers Slovenia men's international footballers ND Gorica players SpVgg Greuther Fürth players SV Wehen Wiesbaden players NK IB 1975 Ljubljana players Kecskeméti TE players NK Brda players Slovenian PrvaLiga players 2. Bundesliga players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Slovenian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary {{Slovenia-footy-bio-stub