Dejan Mezga

Dejan Mezga
Personal information
Full name Dejan Mezga
Date of birth (1985-07-16) 16 July 1985
Place of birth Čakovec, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Nacional
Number 88
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 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 February 2017.

Dejan Mezga (born 16 July 1985 in Čakovec) is a Croatian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nacional. He previously played for Varteks, Čakovec, Maribor, Hajduk Split, and Apollon Limassol. He received a Slovenian citizenship on 23 August 2012.[1]

Career

Coming from the village of Brezje, near Čakovec, in the region of Međimurje,[2] Mezga went through the ranks of several lower-tier local clubs, debuting at the age of 15 for the seniors of NK Sloga Čakovec,[3] before joining the U17 team of NK Varteks Varaždin. 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.[4]

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.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Mezga brez statusa tujca" [Mezga is not foreign player anymore] (in Slovenian). NK Maribor official website. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  2. ↑ Dejan Mezga iz Brezja potpisao za splitski Hajduk at mnovine.hr
  3. ↑ Biografija at dejan-mezga.com
  4. ↑ "Mezga Dejan" (in Croatian). www.hnl-statistika.com. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012.
  5. ↑ "Vijoličasti bojevnik" [Purple Warrior] (in Slovenian). NK Maribor official website. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Peter Dominko (26 January 2017). "Mezga še drugič v karieri zapustil Ljudski vrt" [Mezga left Ljudski vrt for the second time in career] (in Slovenian). SNPortal.si. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.