A memorable week for the 19-year-old from Ilirija: Jure Novak celebrated the Youth Championship title on Wednesday and scored his first goal in 2. SNL
The 2022/23 season will go down in history in golden letters
Ilirija
. The Ljubljana football club defied all predictions and surprisingly, unexpectedly, became the new national champion in the youth competition. Ilirija sealed the championship title on Wednesday, when they beat Krka away. Jure Novak also contributed to the celebrations.The 19-year-old winger has been one of the best individual players in the youth league this season, scoring 12 goals in 23 games.
But Jure Novak didn’t just draw attention in the 2022/23 season in the junior competition. He did it in the members’ competition too. A young man is in
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played eight matches and this week, in addition to the youth championship title, he also scored his first league goal in senior football. It is almost unbelievable that a footballer who also played a match for the Slovenian national under-19 team at the end of last year managed to do all this in just under 24 hours!
Jure Novak played all 90 minutes in the decisive game of the youth league on Wednesday, then returned to Novo Mesto on Thursday with his teammates to start Game 2. SNL and in 32. Ilirija took the lead in the first minute. Krka won 3:2, but even that cannot change the fact that for both Novak, who had been training in Domžale before coming to Zgornja Šiška, and especially for Ilirija, the opening week of May is a dream come true.
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