Milan Osterc

Milan Osterc
Personal information
Date of birth (1975-07-04) 4 July 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth Murska Sobota, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Veržej
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
–1994 Veržej
1994–1996 Beltinci 50 (16)
1996–1998 Gorica 64 (19)
1998–1999 Hércules Alicante 23 (3)
2000 Olimpija 16 (6)
2000–2002 Hapoel Tel Aviv 53 (10)
2002–2003 Le Havre 8 (0)
2003–2004 Bursaspor 15 (1)
2004–2005 Malatyaspor 26 (10)
2005 AEK Larnaca 7 (1)
2006 LASK 11 (2)
2007–2010 Gorica 91 (43)
2010–2012 Koper 55 (22)
Total 419 (133)
International career
1994–1997 Slovenia U21 8 (1)
1997–2002 Slovenia 44 (8)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Milan Osterc (pronounced [ˈmíːlan ˈòːstərts]; born 4 July 1975) is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

Osterc started his career at Veržej, where he was the top goalscorer of the 1993–94 Slovenian Second League season. In the 2001–02 UEFA Cup, he reached the quarter-finals of the competition with Hapoel Tel Aviv, scoring seven goals in the process. In the 2009–10 season, he was the top scorer of the Slovenian first division, 1. SNL, with 23 goals.

International career

Osterc played 44 matches for Slovenia, scoring 8 goals. He was a participant at Euro 2000 and the 2002 FIFA World Cup. On 10 November 2001, he scored a goal against Romania in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying play-offs, helping to secure his country's first-ever World Cup appearance as an independent country. His final international match was at that World Cup, in a 3–1 group stage defeat against Paraguay.

Career statistics

International

Scores and results list Slovenia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Osterc goal.
List of international goals scored by Milan Osterc
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 8 February 1999 Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat, Oman  Oman 1–0 7–0 Friendly
2 3–0
3 4–0
4 6–0
5 18 August 1999 Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia  Albania 2–0 2–0 UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
6 3 September 2000 Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands  Faroe Islands 2–0 2–2 FIFA World Cup 2002 qualification
7 1 September 2001 Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia  Russia 1–0 2–1 FIFA World Cup 2002 qualification
8 10 November 2001 Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia  Romania 2–1 2–1 FIFA World Cup 2002 qualification

Honours

Olimpija

Hapoel Tel Aviv

References

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  7. ^ "Osterc dosegel neverjeten gol proti Romuniji" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. 10 November 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
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