Andraž Šporar
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Andraž Šporar | ||
| Date of birth | 27 February 1994 | ||
| Place of birth | Ljubljana, Slovenia | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Basel | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2005 | Olimpija | ||
| 2005–2009 | MNK Ljubljana | ||
| 2009–2011 | Interblock | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011–2012 | Interblock | 21 | (10) |
| 2012–2015 | Olimpija Ljubljana | 95 | (46) |
| 2016– | Basel | 6 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2011 | Slovenia U18 | 1 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Slovenia U19 | 17 | (3) |
| 2012 | Slovenia U20 | 1 | (1) |
| 2013–2016 | Slovenia U21 | 19 | (7) |
| 2016– | Slovenia | 2 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 November 2016. | |||
Andraž Šporar (born 27 February 1994) is a Slovenian footballer who plays for Basel in the Swiss Super League.
Club career
In July 2012 Šporar transferred from Interblock to Olimpija Ljubljana. In the 2015–16 Slovenian PrvaLiga season, Šporar was named as team captain. During the first half of the clubs season he played 18 PrvaLiga games and scored 17 goals.
On 8 December 2015 Basel announced that Šporar had signed a four and a half year contract up until the end of June 2020.[1] He made his league debut for Basel on 14 February 2016 in the 4–0 away win against Grasshopper Club coming in as substitute in the 70th minute.[2] Šporar injured himself during warm-up before the away match against Saint-Étienne on 18 February 2016. He had to undergo a surgery which kept him out for the rest of the 2015–16 FC Basel season, in which his team won the 2015–16 Swiss Super League championship, their seventh national title in a row.[3][4]
International career
In November 2016 he received his first call-up to the senior Slovenia squad for matches against Malta and Poland.[5] He debuted against Malta, replacing Milivoje Novaković late in the second half.[6]
Career statistics
- As of 23 November 2016[7]
| Club performance | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 2011–12 | Interblock | 2. SNL | 21 | 10 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 24 | 11 |
| 2012–13 | Olimpija | 1. SNL | 28 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 11 |
| 2013–14 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 9 | ||
| 2014–15 | 32 | 13 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 34 | 13 | ||
| 2015–16 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 20 | 17 | ||
| Total | 95 | 46 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 112 | 50 | ||
| 2015–16 | Basel | Super League | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 0 |
| 2016–17 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 11 | 0 | ||
| Total | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 12 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 122 | 56 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 148 | 61 | ||
Personal life
He is a son of Olimpija's former captain Miha Šporar. Andraž Šporar has revealed that it is his ambition to earn a move to Liverpool at some stage in his career.[8]
Honours
FC Basel
References
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- ↑ FC Basel 1893 (8 December 2015). "FCB verpflichtet den Slowenen Andraz Sporar". www.fcb.ch. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ↑ Marti, Caspar (14 February 2016). "4:0-Erfolg bei GC: souveräner Sieg im Spitzenspiel". www.fcb.ch. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
- ↑ FC Basel 1893 (24 February 2016). "Jean-Paul-Boetius-und-Andraz-Sporar-fallen-verletz". www.fcb.ch. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
- ↑ Marti, Casper (30 April 2016). "Es ist vollbracht ! Der FCB ist zum 19. Mal Meister". www.fcb.ch. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ "Katanec reagiral na epidemijo poškodb: naknadno je vpoklical Šporarja in Pihlerja" (in Slovenian). 24ur.com. 4 November 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ↑ "Prvenec Verbiča za pomembne tri točke" [First goal for Verbic for important three points] (in Slovenian). Football Association of Slovenia official website. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ↑ "A. Šporar". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ↑ Jure Bohoric (16 January 2013). "Olimpija forward Andraz Sporar hoping to turn out for Liverpool in the future". skysports.com. Retrieved 1 June 2016.