Matjaž Kek

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Matjaž Kek
Personal information

Date of birth	(1961-09-09) 9 September 1961
Place of birth	Maribor, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Rijeka (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1980–1985	Maribor	114	(36)
1985–1988	Spittal/Drau
1988–1995	GAK
1995–1999	Maribor	126	(17)
National team
1992	Slovenia	1	(0)
Teams managed
2000	Maribor (assistant/caretaker)
2001	Maribor (assistant/caretaker)
2002–2004	Maribor
2006	Slovenia U15
2006–2007	Slovenia U16
2007–2011	Slovenia
2011–2012	Al-Ittihad
2013–	Rijeka
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Matjaž Kek (born 9 September 1961) is a former Slovenian footballer and current manager of Croatian club HNK Rijeka. He is the former manager of the Slovenia national team.

Club career

Kek started his professional football career at his home club Maribor in 1979,^[1] before moving to the Austrian club Spittal/Drau in 1985, where he spent 3 seasons. He then transferred to another Austrian club, GAK of the Austrian Bundesliga where he played for 7 years. After that he returned to Maribor, where from 1995 to 1999 he won 3 Slovenian league titles, before retiring. He spent most of his career playing in defense, mostly in the centre back position and was known for his leadership abilities.

Managerial career

After finishing his career as a player, Kek stayed at Maribor, serving as an assistant coach for one season, before being appointed manager in 2000. He immediately won the league title in the 2000–01 season. Under his guidance the team won the league again in 2003. In 2006 he was the coach of the Slovenian under-15 and under-16 national football teams. On 3 January 2007, Kek was appointed manager of the Slovenia national team, which he led to the 2010 FIFA World Cup after beating Russia in the play-offs.

On 24 October 2011, after the unsuccessful UEFA Euro 2012 qualifications, Kek and the Football Association of Slovenia came to a mutual agreement on the early termination of his contract.^[2] He was succeeded by Slaviša Stojanović. Kek then became the head coach of Saudi Arabian giants Al Ittihad, however, his brief encounter with the Arabian football finished abruptly when he was sacked couple of weeks later, on 8 February 2012.^[3]

On 27 February 2013, after more than a year without coaching, Kek took over Croatian top division club HNK Rijeka.^[4] In his first season he led the club to the group stages of the UEFA Europa League tournament.

Personal life

The Kek family always had close ties with NK Maribor. Matjaž's father, Franc Kek, played for Maribor during early 1960s, earning 50 league appearances for the club and scoring one goal in the process.^[5] His son, Matjaž Kek, Jr., is currently a member of the squad from Ljudski vrt with a contract until the end of the 2013–14 season.^[6]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Matjaž Kek.

↑ http://www.zerodic.com/autor/fudbal_1945-1992/igraci/igraci_k.htm
↑ http://www.football.si/news/2011-10-24-Kek-No-Longer-National-Football-Team-Coach
↑ http://www.goal.com/en-au/news/4016/main/2012/02/08/2892962/saudi-arabian-giants-al-ittihad-sack-ex-slovenia-coach
↑ Pacak, Tomislav. "Rijeka odabrala Matjaža Keka". Sportnet.hr. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
↑ NK Maribor. Franc "Kek Franc - nastopi" (in Slovene). NK Maribor official websute. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
↑ NK Maribor. "Osebni karton: Matjaž Kek" (in Slovene). NK Maribor official website. Retrieved 16 March 2012.

External links

Transfermarkt profile

v t e HNK Rijeka – current squad

5 Knežević 7 Alispahić 8 Mujanović 10 Sharbini 11 Tomečak 12 Raspor 13 Lešković 14 Boras 15 Mitrović 16 Močinić 17 Ajayi 19 Benko 20 Kvržić 21 Zlomislić 22 Leovac 23 Marić 24 Bertoša 25 Vargić 26 Maleš 27 Pokrivač 29 Pušić 30 Brezovec 32 Prskalo 88 Moisés 89 Jugović 91 Kramarić 99 Krstanović Manager: Kek

v t e Prva HNL managers

Frančić Ivković Kek Kulešević Mamić Milin Mladina Mršić Pamić Tudor

v t e Slovenia squad – 2010 FIFA World Cup

1 S. Handanović 2 Brečko 3 Džinić 4 Šuler 5 Cesar 6 Ilić 7 Pečnik 8 Koren (c) 9 Ljubijankić 10 Birsa 11 Novakovič 12 J. Handanović 13 Jokić 14 Dedić 15 Krhin 16 Šeliga 17 Kirm 18 Radosavljević 19 Filekovič 20 Komac 21 Stevanović 22 Mavrič 23 Matavž Coach: Kek

NK Maribor – managers

Pflander (1960–61)
Šimunić (1961–?)
Kirbiš (?–?)
Kašanin (?–?)
Šimunić (?–?)
Omeragić (?–1970)
Marković (1970)
Kajtaz (?–?)
Hlavač (?–?)
Đekić (?–1976)
Simeunović (1976–?)
Horvatič (?–?)
Raševič (?–1979)
Marković (1979–80)
Papec (1980–?)
Prosen (?–?)
Simeunović (?–?)
Hlavač (?–?)
Donko (?–?)
Grubišić (?–?)
Simeunović (?–?)
Bloudek (?–?)
Horjak (?–?)
Bloudek (?–?)
Horjak (?–?)
Fundak (?–?)
Zavrl (?–96)
Breber (1996)
Prašnikar (1996–2000)
Kek (2000)
Šušak (2000–01)
Kek (2001)
Prašnikar (2001–02)
Kek (2002–04)
Horjak (2004–05)
Simeunović (2005)
Đuričić (2005–06)
Pušnik (2006–07)
Gjurovski (2007)
Horjak (2007–08)
Milanič (2008–2013)
Čačić (2013)
Šimundža (2013–)

v t e Slovenia national football team – managers

Prašnikar (1991–93) Verdenik (1994–97) Prašnikar (1998) Katanec (1998–02) Prašnikar (2002–04) Oblak (2004–06) Kek (2007–11) Stojanović (2011–12) Katanec (2013–)

Persondata
Name	Kek, Matjaž
Alternative names
Short description	Slovenian footballer
Date of birth	9 September 1961
Place of birth	Maribor, SFR Yugoslavia
Date of death
Place of death

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