Etien Velikonja
Velikonja playing for Cardiff City in 2013
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Etien Velikonja | ||
| Date of birth | 26 December 1988 | ||
| Place of birth | Šempeter pri Gorici, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Gençlerbirliği | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Gorica | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2010 | Gorica | 104 | (32) |
| 2011–2012 | Maribor | 48 | (20) |
| 2012–2016 | Cardiff City | 3 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | → Rio Ave (loan) | 7 | (1) |
| 2015–2016 | → Lierse (loan) | 40 | (28) |
| 2016–2017 | Olimpija Ljubljana | 21 | (4) |
| 2017– | Gençlerbirliği | 0 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 2006 | Slovenia U18 | 3 | (0) |
| 2006 | Slovenia U19 | 4 | (0) |
| 2007–2009 | Slovenia U20 | 7 | (6) |
| 2007–2010 | Slovenia U21 | 14 | (3) |
| 2009–2012 | Slovenia | 3 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 January 2017. |
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Etien Velikonja (born 26 December 1988) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Gençlerbirliği.
Velikonja started to play football at Gorica which is a club well known for their excellent youth system. Coming through their youth system, he was improving season by season until 2006–07, when he was promoted to the senior squad. In his first season, he took part in seven matches, scoring one goal. Next year during season 2007–08 the managerial staff already understood that he is an enormous talent and Velikonja played 31 matches, scoring seven goals. During the 2008–09 campaign Velikonja exploded, the young striker played 32 matches, scoring an amazing total of 17 goals. Finishing the campaign as the top goal scorer in the Slovenian 1.SNL. In October 2009, on a league match against Koper, he sustained a serious knee injury which caused him to miss the majority of 2009–10 season. He was not available to the team up until the end of April 2010, four rounds before the end of the season, when he returned to the pitch as a late substitute in a league match against Drava.
During the 2010 summer transfer window it was speculated for the first time that Velikonja could join 1.SNL Maribor, however, the deal was eventually not carried out and Velikonja stayed in Gorica for the start of the 2010–11 season. He then prepared himself for the new season, putting his injury behind him, as by the end of 2010 he had played a total of 18 league matches for Gorica with an average of over 89 minutes per round, scoring five goals in the process. On 17 January 2011, during the winter transfer window, Velikonja was signed by Maribor in a deal that included an undisclosed transfer fee and a player, Vito Plut, going the other way. Velikonja has signed a contract with Maribor until 31 December 2013. He played his first league match for the new club on 26 February 2011, and scored one goal in a 4–2 victory against Rudar.
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