Marko Pridigar
{{short description|Slovenian footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Marko Pridigar
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|05|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = Maribor, SFR Yugoslavia
| height = {{height|m=1.88}}
| currentclub =
| clubnumber =
| position = Goalkeeper
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 = Železničar Maribor
| youthyears2 = {{0|0000}}–2004
| youthclubs2 = Maribor
| youthyears3 =
| years1 = 2004–2014
| clubs1 = Maribor
| caps1 = 117 | goals1 = 0
| years2 = 2005
| clubs2 = → Paloma (loan)
| caps2 = 8 | goals2 = 0
| years3 = 2006
| clubs3 = → Aluminij (loan)
| caps3 = 8 | goals3 = 0
| years4 = 2015
| clubs4 = Zavrč
| caps4 = 7 | goals4 = 0
| years5 = 2015–2016
| clubs5 = Ayia Napa
| caps5 = 13 | goals5 = 0
| years6 = 2016
| clubs6 = Fylkir
| caps6 = 6 | goals6 = 0
| years7 = 2017–2019
| clubs7 = Rudar Velenje
| caps7 = 55 | goals7 = 0
| totalcaps = 214 | totalgoals = 0
| nationalyears1 = 2004
| nationalteam1 = Slovenia U19
| nationalcaps1 = 1
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalyears2 = 2005
| nationalteam2 = Slovenia U20
| nationalcaps2 = 2
| nationalgoals2 = 0
| nationalyears3 = 2005–2006
| nationalteam3 = Slovenia U21
| nationalcaps3 = 3
| nationalgoals3 = 0
| pcupdate =
}}
Marko Pridigar (born 18 May 1985) is a Slovenian retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.{{cite web|title=Rudar: Bivši vratar Maribora v pokoj, še en bivši Mariborčan pa na gol |url=https://www.nogomania.com/Novica/Rudar-Bivsi-vratar-Maribora-v-pokoj-se-en-bivsi-Mariborcan-pa-na-gol |publisher=Nogomania |access-date=30 August 2019 |language=sl |date=30 August 2019}}
Club career
Pridigar started his career in the youth ranks of Maribor, where he also signed his first professional contract. He made his debut in the Slovenian PrvaLiga at the age of 20 in a match against Nafta Lendava.{{cite web|url=https://www.prvaliga.si/tekmovanja/?action=tekma&id_tekme=3613|language=sl|publisher=Slovenian PrvaLiga|access-date=4 January 2024|title=Nafta 1–0 Maribor Pivovarna Laško|date=13 May 2006}} During his first years as a professional, he was competing for the place in the first team with Marko Ranilović. He was the first-choice goalkeeper during the 2007–08 and 2008–09 seasons as he played most of the league matches at that time. In the next season (2009–10) he lost his place in the starting eleven to Ranilović and played a total of eleven matches in the first league.{{cite web|url=https://www.nzs.si/tekmovanja/default.asp?action=igralecstat&id_igralca=35396|language=sl|publisher=Football Association of Slovenia |access-date=4 January 2024|title=Marko Pridigar}} During this period, he was also injured for a couple of months.
He was the first-choice goalkeeper at Maribor at the beginning of the 2010–11 season. However, he suffered another injury halfway through the first part of the season and was sidelined again. At the beginning of the second part of the season, Pridigar returned to the team, but was injured again in the first match after his return against Olimpija, when an opponent player stepped on his hand and fractured the bone in his palm in three different places. Pridigar was operated on 17 March 2011, and was sidelined for the rest of the season.{{cite news | url = https://www.nogomania.com/Novica/Pridigar-uspesno-operiran | title = Pridigar uspešno operiran |trans-title=Pridigar's surgery was successful |publisher=Nogomania | date = 17 March 2011 | access-date =4 January 2024| language=sl}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.nzs.si/tekmovanja/default.asp?action=igralecstat&id_igralca=35396 Marko Pridigar] at NZS {{in lang|sl}}
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- [https://www.ksi.is/mot/leikmadur/?leikmadur=309323 Marko Pridigar] at KSÍ {{in lang|is}}
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Category:Footballers from Maribor
Category:Men's association football goalkeepers
Category:Slovenian men's footballers
Category:21st-century Slovenian sportsmen
Category:Slovenia men's youth international footballers
Category:Slovenia men's under-21 international footballers
Category:NK Rudar Velenje players
Category:Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Category:Slovenian Second League players
Category:Cypriot First Division players
Category:Slovenian expatriate men's footballers
Category:Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus