Former Maribor goalkeeper Nino Irgolic at a crossroads: after serious injury and illness, he is even flirting with the end of his career
Although he is only 24 years old, Nino Irgolic may have already said the last word in his football career. At least at the highest level of football… Former member Maribor, which was loaned to the Violet team for six months in 2019 Sweden, where he wears the jersey of the club Mjällby AIF also played two games in the Swedish second league, revealed that he had a severe health problemswhich took away much of his will to pursue a career in the world of football. Nino Irgolič is a member of the Austrian lower league club TUS St. Peter am Ottersbach, coached by his father Janko Irgolič, a successful goalkeeper in his time, but at the moment he doesn’t know how much longer he will actually stand between the posts.
“I jump, I land, something snaps and I fall. I tried to step on my toes and fell again. I realised that something was seriously wrong. It was the snap of a tendon that I tore. But I didn’t realise at the time how much this bang would affect my life,“, speaking to
Vestnik
Nino Irgolič described an event from three years ago, when he was still a member of Maribor. He rested for a year due to the injury, then left Maribor and signed for Bravo in Ljubljana, where his health calamity continued.
The most agonising period of my career
“I gave it my all in training, but physically I couldn’t do anything. I lost eight kilograms. That six months was the most agonising period of my career,“, Nino Irgolič vividly describes Nino Irgolič, who temporarily gave up football after six months and started looking for reasons for his health problems. Finally, a laboratory test showed an imbalance of bacteria and the presence of parasites. “This disease has grounded me. In the end, it turned out that the two things were linked, because my body was so exhausted by the disease that it couldn’t absorb certain substances, and at the same time I was still training like a madman at the time, so that’s why I got injured,” explained Nino Irgolič.
Now that Maribor and
Telemach First League
are just a distant memory, Nino Irgolič wonders how to move forward. “I have invested everything in succeeding in football. If it was just an injury, I would have got over it. I also told myself that I would never end my career because of an injury. But now that everything else has happened… But that seems a bit much for me to go through the wall again,“, Nino Irgolič told Vestnik.
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