Silvester Sabolčki
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Date of birth | 12 November 1979 | ||
Place of birth |
SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Date of death | 30 May 2003 | (aged 23)||
Place of death | Varaždin, Croatia | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) |
Winger | ||
Youth career | |||
Varteks | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1998–2003 | Varteks | 121 | (11) |
2003 | Dinamo Zagreb | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
1999 | Croatia U20 | 1 | (0) |
1998–2001 | Croatia U21 | 17 | (1) |
2001–2003 | Croatia | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:28, 27 October 2009 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:28, 27 October 2009 (UTC) |
Silvester Sabolčki (Croatian pronunciation: [sǐlʋester sabǒltʃki];[1][2] 12 November 1979 – 30 May 2003) was a Croatian footballer who played as a winger.
Playing for
Club career
Sabolčki rose through the youth ranks of Varteks before penning his first professional contract at the club in 1998, at the age of 18. He quickly established himself as a first-team regular at the club, appearing in a total of 121 matches and scoring 11 goals in the
At the time of his death, he had already signed a contract with Croatian top club Dinamo Zagreb and was about to join the club at the beginning of the 2003–04 season.
International career
Between 1998 and 2001, Sabolčki was a regular with the
Sabolčki also won two full international caps for
Death
At the age of 23, Sabolčki was killed in a road accident that occurred in a Varaždin suburb in the early morning of 30 May 2003, when he lost control over his Audi A3 at high speed. The vehicle hit a light pole and several traffic signs before being torn apart by the force of the impact upon hitting a second light pole.
Sabolčki and two other passengers, 20-year-old Kristijan Kitner and 24-year-old Krunoslav Sabolić, were ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. Kitner and Sabolić were also professional footballers, both goalkeepers. Kitner was in his first professional season with Varteks, while Sabolić had left Varteks for Slaven Belupo a few years earlier.[6]
References
- ^ "Silvèstar". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Croatian). Retrieved 30 May 2020.
Sìlvester
- ^ "sàbōv". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Croatian). Retrieved 30 May 2020.
Sabòlčec
- ^ "Silvester Sabolčki Statistika" (in Croatian). 1hnl.net. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
- ^ "Silvester Sabolčki statistike" (in Croatian). Hrvatski nogometni savez. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
- ^ "Poginuli Sabolčki, Sabolić i Kitner" (in Croatian). Sportnet.hr. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
External links
- Silvester Sabolčki at FIFA (archived)
- Silvester Sabolčki at EU-Football.info
- Silvester Sabolčki at FBref.com
- Silvester Sabolčki at National-Football-Teams.com
- Silvester Sabolčki at Soccerway.com
- Silvester Sabolčki at WorldFootball.net