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Dejan Mezga (born 16 July 1985) is a Croatian footballer who plays for Austrian amateur side SV Übelbach as a midfielder.[1]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 16 July 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Čakovec, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | SV Übelbach | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sloboda Slakovec | |||
| Venera PMP | |||
| 2002–2004 | Varteks | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2002 | Sloga Čakovec | ||
| 2004–2007 | Čakovec | 73 | (17) |
| 2007–2014 | Maribor | 159 | (39) |
| 2014–2015 | Hajduk Split | 21 | (3) |
| 2015–2016 | Apollon Limassol | 25 | (2) |
| 2016–2017 | Maribor | 4 | (0) |
| 2017 | Nacional | 6 | (1) |
| 2017–2018 | Inter Zaprešić | 4 | (0) |
| 2018 | Varaždin | 2 | (0) |
| 2018–2021 | Polet Sv. Martin na Muri | ||
| 2021– | SV Übelbach | 26 | (12) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 October 2022 | |||
During his career, he played for Čakovec, Maribor, Hajduk Split, Apollon Limassol, Nacional, Inter Zaprešić, Varaždin, Polet Sv. Martin na Muri, and SV Übelbach.
Mezga acquired Slovenian citizenship on 23 August 2012.[2]
Career
Coming from the village of Brezje, near Čakovec, in the region of Međimurje,[3] Mezga went through the ranks of several lower-tier local clubs, debuting at the age of 15 for the seniors of NK Sloga Čakovec,[4] before joining the U17 team of NK Varteks. In his last season of eligibility for the U19 team, he left the club, however, and joined the Druga HNL side NK Čakovec, where he became a fixture for the following several seasons.[5]
In 2007, he joined the Slovenian PrvaLiga side Maribor. He soon established himself in the first team, and, after winning his first league title with the team, in 2009, won the fans' award "Vijoličasti bojevnik" (Purple Warrior) awarded to the most distinguished player of the past season.[6] Maribor went on to win four titles in the following five seasons, with Mezga featuring heavily in all campaigns, and was selected for the league's ideal eleven of the 2011–12 championship.[7]
After his contract expired in the summer of 2014, he joined Croatian side Hajduk Split.
He briefly returned to Maribor in August 2016, before signing for Nacional in January 2017.[8]
References
- Austrian career stats – ÖFB
- "Mezga brez statusa tujca" [Mezga is not foreign player anymore] (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- "Dejan Mezga iz Brezja potpisao za splitski Hajduk" (in Croatian). 12 August 2014. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- Biografija at dejan-mezga.com
- "Mezga Dejan". hnl-statistika.com (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 10 September 2012.
- "Vijoličasti bojevnik" [Purple Warrior] (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- T. O. (14 May 2012). "Vršič najboljši igralec sezone slovenskega prvenstva" [Vrsic is the best player of the season] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- Dominko, Peter (26 January 2017). "Mezga še drugič v karieri zapustil Ljudski vrt" [Mezga left Ljudski vrt for the second time in career]. Slovenski nogometni portal (in Slovenian). Retrieved 26 January 2017.
External links
- Dejan Mezga at UEFA
- Dejan Mezga at Soccerway.com
- Dejan Mezga at AS.com (in Spanish)
- NZS profile (in Slovene)
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