Goran Hunjak

{{Short description|Croatian-American soccer player (born 1965)}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Goran Hunjak

| birth_date = {{birth date|1965|11|13|df=y}}

| birth_place = Zagreb, Yugoslavia

| height = 5 ft 9 in

| position = Midfielder

| years1 = 1983–1988

| years2 = 1988–1992

| years3 = 1992–1994

| years4 = 1994

| years5 = 1994–1997

| years6 = 1996

| years7 = 1997

| years8 = 1998

| years9 = 1998

| years10 = 1998–1999

| years11 = 1999–2001

| years12 = 2000

| years13 = 2001–2005

| clubs1 = NK Zagreb

| clubs2 = Wichita Wings (indoor)

| clubs3 = Baltimore Spirit (indoor)

| clubs4 = Washington Warthogs (indoor)

| clubs5 = Kansas City Attack (indoor)

| clubs6 = Tampa Bay Mutiny

| clubs7 = Washington Warthogs (indoor)

| clubs8 = Kansas City Wizards

| clubs9 = → MLS Pro 40 (loan)

| clubs10 = Kansas City Attack (indoor)

| clubs11 = Philadelphia KiXX (indoor)

| clubs12 = Vermont Voltage

| clubs13 = Kansas City Comets (indoor)

| caps1 =

| caps2 = 88

| caps3 = 75

| caps4 = 25

| caps5 = 118

| caps6 = 21

| caps7 = 21

| caps8 = 12

| caps9 = 1

| caps10 = 26

| caps11 = 78

| caps12 = ?

| caps13 = 78

| goals1 =

| goals2 = 21

| goals3 = 91

| goals4 = 47

| goals5 = 177

| goals6 = 2

| goals7 = 18

| goals8 = 0

| goals9 = 0

| goals10 = 24

| goals11 = 92

| goals12 = 1

| goals13 = 41

}}

Goran Hunjak (born 13 November 1965 in Yugoslavia) is a retired football player.

Club career

"Scorin" Goran Hunjak{{cite web |url=http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/575858.html |title=United Soccer Leagues (USL) |accessdate=2014-03-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312000927/http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/575858.html |archivedate=12 March 2014 }} began his professional career in 1983 with for NK Zagreb in the Croatian First Division. In 1988, he moved to the United States and signed with the Wichita Wings in Major Indoor Soccer League. In 1992, the league collapsed and Hunjak moved to the Baltimore Spirit in the National Professional Soccer League. In 1994, the expansion Washington Warthogs which played a summer indoor soccer in the Continental Indoor Soccer League made Hunjak its first player when it selected him in the expansion draft. He played one season with Washington where he was a first team All Star,{{Cite web |url=http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1994.html |title=The Year in American Soccer – 1994 |access-date=11 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805090436/http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1994.html |archive-date=5 August 2009 |url-status=dead }} then moved to the Kansas City Attack in the fall of 1994 for three seasons. In January 1996, the Tampa Bay Mutiny drafted Hunjak. He spent the 1996 season in Tampa Bay filling in as the team's play maker when Carlos Valderrama was with the Colombian national team.[http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/03-97/03-19-97/d04sp158.htm MLS prepares for second season with few changes] In spring 1997, he signed with the Washington Warthogs of the Continental Indoor Soccer League.[http://www.scorenet-usa.com/soccernet/6.18.97/socshort.htm Soccer Shorts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716015721/http://www.scorenet-usa.com/soccernet/6.18.97/socshort.htm |date=16 July 2011 }} He returned to Major League Soccer after being drafted by the Kansas City Wizards in the first round (eighth overall) of 1998 MLS Supplemental Draft.

He returned to the NPSL, rejoining his previous team, the Kansas City Attack for the 1998–1999 season. In 1999, he moved to the Philadelphia KiXX for two seasons before transferring to his final team, the Kansas City Comets in 2001.

References

External links

[http://www.kccomets.com/staff/index.php?zone=staff&staff_id=46&statType=Goran Hunjak page on the defunct Kansas City Comets' webpage]
[http://www.nasljerseys.com/MISL/Players/H/Hunjak.Goran.htm MISL stats]
{{MLS player|goran-hunjak}}

Category:1965 births

Category:Living people

Category:Footballers from Zagreb

Category:Men's association football midfielders

Category:Yugoslav men's footballers

Category:Croatian men's footballers

Category:NK Zagreb players

Category:Wichita Wings (MISL) players

Category:Baltimore Spirit players

Category:Washington Warthogs players

Category:Kansas City Attack players

Category:Tampa Bay Mutiny players