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Zoran Ubavič (28 October 1965 – 21 November 2015) was a Slovenian
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who played as a forward. Ubavič spent his entire career playing for Slovenian clubs and was also capped once for the Slovenia national team, on 3 June 1992 in a friendly against
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. He was the top scorer of the
Slovenian PrvaLiga The Slovenian PrvaLiga (, ), currently named Prva liga Telemach due to sponsorship reasons, also known by the abbreviation 1. SNL, is the top level of the Slovenian football league system. Contested by ten clubs, it operates on a system of prom ...
in its inaugural 1991–92 season, and is Olimpija's all-time leading goalscorer with 167 goals in 283 games across all competitions.


Personal life

Born in
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to a military officer, Ubavič suffered from severe dementia in his final years and died in 2015, aged 50.


Honours

Olimpija *
Slovenian Republic League The Slovenian Republic Football League () was the highest Association football, football league in Slovenia within the Yugoslav football league system, Yugoslav football system. During the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the league was known as the Ljubl ...
: 1986–87 *
Slovenian PrvaLiga The Slovenian PrvaLiga (, ), currently named Prva liga Telemach due to sponsorship reasons, also known by the abbreviation 1. SNL, is the top level of the Slovenian football league system. Contested by ten clubs, it operates on a system of prom ...
: 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95 * Slovenian Republic Cup: 1986–87 * Slovenian Cup: 1992–93 Koper *Slovenian Republic Cup: 1990–91 Gorica *Slovenian PrvaLiga: 1995–96 * Slovenian Supercup:
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...


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Zoran Ubavič
at NZS * 1965 births 2015 deaths Footballers from Celje Men's association football forwards Yugoslav men's footballers Slovenian men's footballers Slovenia men's international footballers NK Olimpija Ljubljana (1945–2005) players ND Gorica players NK Slavija Vevče players NK Ljubljana players NK Svoboda Ljubljana players NK Ivančna Gorica players NK IB 1975 Ljubljana players NK Olimpija Ljubljana (2005) players Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav Second League players Slovenian PrvaLiga players Slovenian Second League players {{Slovenia-footy-bio-stub