Gregor Židan (born 5 October 1965) is a Slovenian retired

football midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

and a politician.

International career

Židan first represented

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, playing one unofficial friendly match against the

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on 17 October 1990, coming on as a 71st-minute substitute for

Saša Peršon Saša Peršon (born 28 February 1965 in Yugoslavia) is a Croatian retired footballer who played as a defender. At international level, he was capped 3 times for Croatia. International career Peršon made his debut for Croatia in an October 1990 ...

. He then was capped 19 times for

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between 1992 and 1996, his final international was an April 1996

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match away against

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Gregor Židan
at PrvaLiga * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zidan, Gregor 1965 births Living people Footballers from Ljubljana Slovenian people of Croatian descent Association football midfielders Yugoslav footballers Croatian footballers Croatia international footballers Slovenian footballers Slovenia international footballers Dual internationalists (football) NK Olimpija Ljubljana (1945–2005) players GNK Dinamo Zagreb players NK Maribor players NK Ivančna Gorica players Croatian Football League players Slovenian PrvaLiga players Slovenian Second League players Slovenian sportsperson-politicians Modern Centre Party politicians Social Democrats (Slovenia) politicians Members of the National Assembly (Slovenia)