Former national team player’s son will continue scoring goals in Italy: Erwin Tiganj will wear the United Riccione jersey next season
Riccione, a tourist town on the Italian Adriatic coast, is also expected to offer refuge to the Slovenian footballer for at least a year. For the local football club United RiccioneErwin Tiganj, also a member of the Ljubljana
Olimpija
who has been proving himself on the Apennine Peninsula for some time. The son of Senado Tigne, a former Slovenian international who played at the 2002 World Cup, Tigne played for two clubs last season – Matera and Ghiviborgo – and scored 11 goals in 26 games.
United Riccione, like the two clubs mentioned above, play in Serie D, the fourth Italian league in terms of quality. The 24-year-old Erwin Tiganj, who has also played for Karlsruhe, Koper, Iliria, Dob, Wacker, SV Spittal/Drau, Krško and US Follonica Gavorrano, has agreed a one-year contract with his new club. As a point of interest, Tiganj will play in Riccione under the tutelage of the once successful Italian footballer Nico Pulzetti, who played more than 300 games in Serie A and Serie B during his career.
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