Marko Pridigar

Marko Pridigar (born 18 May 1985) is a retired Slovenian footballer goalkeeper.[1]

Marko Pridigar
Personal information
Full name Marko Pridigar
Date of birth (1985-05-18) 18 May 1985
Place of birth Maribor, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Železničar Maribor
0000–2004 Maribor
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2014 Maribor 117 (0)
2005 → Paloma (loan) 8 (0)
2006 → Aluminij (loan) 8 (0)
2015 Zavrč 7 (0)
2015–2016 Ayia Napa 13 (0)
2016 Fylkir 6 (0)
2017–2019 Rudar Velenje 55 (0)
National team
2004 Slovenia U19 1 (0)
2005 Slovenia U20 2 (0)
2005–2006 Slovenia U21 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Pridigar started his career in the youth squads of Maribor where he also signed his first professional contract. He made his debut in the Slovenian PrvaLiga at the age of 20 in a game against Nafta Lendava.[2] During his first years as a professional he was competing for the place in the first team with another goalkeeper Marko Ranilović. He was the first choice goalkeeper during the 2007–08 and 2008–09 seasons as he played most of the league matches at that time. In the next season (2009–10) he lost his place in the starting eleven to Ranilović and played a total of eleven matches in the first league.[3] During this period he was also injured for couple of months.

He was the first choice goalkeeper in Maribor at the start of the 2010–11 season and his performances has been impressive. However, he suffered another injury halfway through the first part of the season and was again sidelined. At the beginning of the second part of the season Pridigar was unfortunate again, when he was on goal during his first league appearance after the injury in the first part. During a match against Olimpija he made a save, but an opponent player stepped on his hand in the process, which fractured a bone in his palm on three different places. Pridigar was operated on 17 March 2011, and was sidelined for the rest of the season.[4]

References
  1. Uredništvo (30 August 2019). "Rudar: Bivši vratar Maribora v pokoj, še en bivši Mariborčan pa na gol". www.nogomania.com (in Slovenian). Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  2. "Nafta 1–0 Maribor" (in Slovenian). Slovenian PrvaLiga. 13 May 2006. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  3. "Marko Pridigar profile" (in Slovenian). Slovenian PrvaLiga. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  4. Uredništvo (17 March 2011). "Pridigar uspešno operiran" [Pridigar's surgery was successful]. www.nogomania.com (in Slovenian). Retrieved 19 March 2011.
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