Marko Elsner
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Full name | Marko Elsner | ||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 11 April 1960 | ||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Ljubljana, FPR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
Playing position | Defender | ||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||
Wacker Innsbruck | |||||||||||||||
Slovan Ljubljana | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
1977–1983 | Olimpija Ljubljana | 109 | (12) | ||||||||||||
1983–1987 | Red Star Belgrade | 128 | (3) | ||||||||||||
1987–1990 | OGC Nice | 105 | (6) | ||||||||||||
1990–1991 | Admira Wacker | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||
1991–1993 | OGC Nice | 24 | (0) | ||||||||||||
Total | 383 | (21) | |||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||
1984–1988 | Yugoslavia | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||||
1992–1993 | Slovenia | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Marko Elsner (born 11 April 1960) is a retired Slovenian footballer who played in the defender position. His late father Branko Elsner was a former coach and sons Luka and Rok are also footballers.
Club career[edit]
Born in Ljubljana, capital of SR Slovenia, back then within Yugoslavia, Elsner played in Austrian FC Wacker Innsbruck youth team before returning to Ljubljana where he played with ND Slovan before joining Olimpija Ljubljana in 1977. In 1983 he was brought by Red Star Belgrade and played with them four seasons. In this period he became national team player, he was part of the Yugoslav team at the 1984 Olympics, and has won one Yugoslav championship and one Cup during his spell with Red Star.[1]
In 1987 he leaves Belgrade and moved abroad by signing with French Ligue 1 side OGC Nice. He will play with Nice until 1993, except one season, 1990–91, which he played in Austrian Bundesliga side Admira Wacker.[2]
International career[edit]
He played 14 games for the Yugoslav national team between 1984 and 1988. After the independence of Slovenia, he made his debut for the Slovenian national team against Cyprus on 18 November 1992. His last match was against Estonia, a friendly on 7 April 1993, and the two games were his two appearances for Slovenia.[3][4]
Honours[edit]
Club:
- Red Star Belgrade
National team:
- Yugoslavia
- Olympic Games: 1984 (bronze)[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Marko Elsner at Reprezentacija.rs (Serbian)
- ^ Marko Elsner at weltfussball.de
- ^ a b c Marko Elsner at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ NZS (Slovene)
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Ljubljana
- Slovenian footballers
- Slovenian expatriate footballers
- Yugoslav footballers
- Yugoslav expatriate footballers
- Association football defenders
- Yugoslav First League players
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- NK Olimpija Ljubljana players
- Red Star Belgrade footballers
- OGC Nice players
- FC Admira Wacker Mödling players
- Slovenian expatriates in France
- Olympic footballers of Yugoslavia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Yugoslavia
- Footballers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- UEFA Euro 1984 players
- Dual internationalists (football)
- Olympic medalists in football
- Yugoslavia international footballers
- Slovenia international footballers
- Slovenian expatriates in Austria
- Expatriate footballers in France
- Expatriate footballers in Austria
- Slovenian football managers
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics