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Silvester Sabolčki

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Silvester Sabolčki
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-11-12)12 November 1979
Place of birth Varaždin, SR Croatia,
SFR Yugoslavia
Date of death 30 May 2003(2003-05-30) (aged 23)
Place of death Varaždin, Croatia
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
Varteks
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2003 Varteks 121 (11)
2003 Dinamo Zagreb 0 (0)
International career‡
1999 Croatia U20 1 (0)
1998–2001 Croatia U21 17 (1)
2001–2003 Croatia 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:28, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:28, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Silvester Sabolčki (Croatian pronunciation: [sǐlʋester sabǒltʃki];[1][2] 12 November 1979 – 30 May 2003) was a Croatian footballer who played as a winger.

Playing for NK Varteks, Sabolčki established himself as one of the most talented Croatian footballers of his generation and signed a contract with the country's top club Dinamo Zagreb less than a week prior to his death in a road accident in the early morning of 30 May 2003.

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Croatia

Croatia

Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe. Its coast lies entirely on the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west and southwest. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, with twenty counties. The country spans 56,594 square kilometres, and has a population of nearly 3.9 million.

Association football

Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposite team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is considered the world's most popular sport.

Winger (sports)

Winger (sports)

In certain sports, such as football, field hockey, ice hockey, handball, rugby union, lacrosse and rugby league, winger is a position. It refers to positions on the extreme left and right sides of the pitch, or playing field. In American football and Canadian football, the analogous position is the wide receiver. Wingers often try to use pace to exploit extra space available on the flanks that can be made available by their teammates dominating the centre ground. They must be wary however of not crossing the touchline, or sidelines, and going out of play. In sports where the main method of scoring involves attacking a small goal in the centre of the field, a common tactic is to cross the ball to a central teammate.

NK Varaždin (1931–2015)

NK Varaždin (1931–2015)

Varaždinski športski nogometni klub Varaždin, commonly referred to as VŠNK Varaždin or simply Varaždin, was a Croatian football club based in the city of Varaždin in the north of the country. During its 74-year existence, they played their home matches at the Stadion Varteks, which was renovated through the years and reached an all-seating capacity of 10,800. For the majority of its life, the 52 years from 1958 to 2010, the club was known as NK Varteks, honouring the name of its principal sponsor during those years.

Club career

Sabolčki rose through the youth ranks of Varteks before penning his first professional contract at the club in 1998, at the age of 18. He quickly established himself as a first-team regular at the club, appearing in a total of 121 matches and scoring 11 goals in the Prva HNL over the following five seasons.[3] In the 1998–99 season, he helped the club reaching the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and was also an important member of the squad that reached the 2001–02 Croatian Cup final. He also made some UEFA Cup appearances with the club.

At the time of his death, he had already signed a contract with Croatian top club Dinamo Zagreb and was about to join the club at the beginning of the 2003–04 season.

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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

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Croatian Football Cup

Croatian Football Cup

The Hrvatski nogometni kup, also colloquially known as Rabuzinovo sunce, is an annually held football tournament for Croatian football clubs and is the second most important competition in Croatian football after the HNL championship. It is governed by the Croatian Football Federation (HNS) and usually runs from late August to late May. Cup winners automatically qualify for next season's UEFA Europa Conference League, except when cup winners are also Prva HNL champions, in which case their berth in the Europa Conference League goes to the best placed team in the Prva HNL who haven't qualified for the UEFA competitions through their league performance.

UEFA Europa League

UEFA Europa League

The UEFA Europa League is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. It is the second-tier competition of European club football, ranking below the UEFA Champions League and above the UEFA Europa Conference League.

International career

Between 1998 and 2001, Sabolčki was a regular with the Croatian national under-21 football team, winning a total of 18 international caps with the team. He was also part of the Croatian squad at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship, where he scored his only international goal in a 5–1 victory over Kazakhstan in the group stage. The following year, he also played for Croatia at the 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

Sabolčki also won two full international caps for Croatia, making his debut on 25 April 2001 in a friendly match against Greece in Varaždin, coming on as a substitute for Robert Jarni in the second half.[4] His second appearance came against Macedonia in another international friendly in February 2003.[5]

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Croatia national under-21 football team

Croatia national under-21 football team

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1999 FIFA World Youth Championship

1999 FIFA World Youth Championship

The 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Nigeria between 3 and 24 April 1999. This was the 12th edition of the tournament.

Kazakhstan national under-21 football team

Kazakhstan national under-21 football team

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Croatia national football team

Croatia national football team

The Croatia national football team represents Croatia in international football matches. It is governed by the Croatian Football Federation (HNS), the governing body for football in Croatia. It is a member of UEFA in Europe and FIFA in global competitions. The team's colors reference two national symbols: the Croatian checkerboard and the country's tricolour. They are colloquially referred to as the Vatreni ('Blazers') and Kockasti.

Greece national football team

Greece national football team

The Greece national football team represents Greece in men's international football matches and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. Starting in 2023, Greece play their home matches in Nea Filadelfeia, a suburb of Athens, at the newly built Agia Sophia Stadium. Greece is one of only ten national teams to have been crowned UEFA European Champions.

Robert Jarni

Robert Jarni

Robert Jarni is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a left winger or wingback and current manager.

Death

At the age of 23, Sabolčki was killed in a road accident that occurred in a Varaždin suburb in the early morning of 30 May 2003, when he lost control over his Audi A3 at high speed. The vehicle hit a light pole and several traffic signs before being torn apart by the force of the impact upon hitting a second light pole.

Sabolčki and two other passengers, 20-year-old Kristijan Kitner and 24-year-old Krunoslav Sabolić, were ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. Kitner and Sabolić were also professional footballers, both goalkeepers. Kitner was in his first professional season with Varteks, while Sabolić had left Varteks for Slaven Belupo a few years earlier.[6]

Source: "Silvester Sabolčki", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, December 11th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvester_Sabolčki.

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Further Reading

Dario Šimić

Jerko Leko

Stadion Varteks

Miljenko Mumlek

Leon Benko

Ognjen Vukojević

Mate Maleš

Josip Pivarić

Marin Leovac

Marko Rog

Borna Barišić
References
  1. ^ "Silvèstar". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Croatian). Retrieved 30 May 2020. Sìlvester
  2. ^ "sàbōv". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Croatian). Retrieved 30 May 2020. Sabòlčec
  3. ^ "Silvester Sabolčki Statistika" (in Croatian). 1hnl.net. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
  4. ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Silvester Sabolčki statistike" (in Croatian). Hrvatski nogometni savez. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
  6. ^ "Poginuli Sabolčki, Sabolić i Kitner" (in Croatian). Sportnet.hr. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
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