Milan Osterc

Milan Osterc
Personal information
Date of birth	4 July 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth	Murska Sobota, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Veržej
Senior career*
Years	Team
0000–1994	Veržej
1994–1996	Beltinci
1996–1998	Gorica
1998–1999	Hércules Alicante
2000	Olimpija
2000–2002	Hapoel Tel Aviv
2002–2003	Le Havre
2003–2004	Bursaspor
2004–2005	Malatyaspor
2005	AEK Larnaca
2006	LASK
2007–2010	Gorica
2010–2012	Koper
Total
International career
1994–1997	Slovenia U21
1997–2002	Slovenia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Milan Osterc (pronounced [ˈmíːlan ˈòːstərts];^[1]^[2] born 4 July 1975) is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

Osterc started his career at Veržej, where he was the top goalscorer of the 1993–94 Slovenian Second League season.^[3] In the 2001–02 UEFA Cup, he reached the quarter-finals of the competition with Hapoel Tel Aviv, scoring seven goals in the process.^[4] In the 2009–10 season, he was the top scorer of the Slovenian first division, 1. SNL, with 23 goals.^[5]

International career

Osterc played 44 matches for Slovenia, scoring 8 goals.^[6] He was a participant at Euro 2000 and the 2002 FIFA World Cup. On 10 November 2001, he scored a goal against Romania in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying play-offs, helping to secure his country's first-ever World Cup appearance as an independent country.^[7] His final international match was at that World Cup, in a 3–1 group stage defeat against Paraguay.^[8]

Career statistics

International

Scores and results list Slovenia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Osterc goal.^[8]

List of international goals scored by Milan Osterc
No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	8 February 1999	Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat, Oman	Oman	1–0	7–0	Friendly
2				3–0
3				4–0
4				6–0
5	18 August 1999	Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia	Albania	2–0	2–0	UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
6	3 September 2000	Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands	Faroe Islands	2–0	2–2	FIFA World Cup 2002 qualification
7	1 September 2001	Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia	Russia	1–0	2–1	FIFA World Cup 2002 qualification
8	10 November 2001	Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia	Romania	2–1	2–1	FIFA World Cup 2002 qualification