Gabrijel Boban

Gabrijel Boban
Personal information
Date of birth	23 July 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth	Požega, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Winger, Forward
Team information
Current team	Posušje
Number	99
Youth career
1998–2007	Kamen Ingrad
Senior career*
Years	Team
2007–2008	Kamen Ingrad
2008–2009	Virovitica
2009–2012	Vinogradar
2012–2013	Pomorac
2013–2016	NK Zagreb
2016–2019	Osijek
2019–2021	Sheriff Tiraspol
2021	Varaždin
2022–	Posušje
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 June 2024

Gabrijel Boban (born 23 July 1989) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Bosnian Premier League club Posušje.

Career

Early career

Born in Požega, Boban went through the youth ranks of the nearby Kamen Ingrad team from Velika who was competing in Prva HNL at the time. He debuted for the first team in the 2007–08 season in Druga HNL were Kamen Ingrad was relegated from Prva HNL just the season before. In his first professional season he made a 21 appearances scoring twice, but was unable to contribute more and prevent the club from yet another relegation in the end. Club's performance over last two seasons declined drastically resulting in relegations due to various financial difficulties caused by embezzlement and fraud problems within main club sponsor, a local construction company of the same name Kamen Ingrad. As the team was relegated further down to Treća HNL for the 2008–09 season, just before the start of competition, on 23 July 2008, club announced its withdrawal from senior competitions for the season. Boban was allowed to leave on free release and a week later he decided to join another third tier club, Virovitica.

He returned to Druga HNL quickly, however, playing three seasons at Vinogradar. In the 2011–12 season, he scored four goals in 24 appearances. In the 2012–13 season he played for Pomorac. At Pomorac, Boban was a mainstay in the starting lineup and added eight goals to his tally that season.

NK Zagreb

The impressive season earned him a move to the newly relegated NK Zagreb in the summer of 2013. He helped Zagreb return to the Prva HNL by scoring 18 goals during the season, trailing only behind Inter Zaprešić's Ilija Nestorovski (20 goals) in the league's overall rankings.^[1] He made his Prva HNL debut three days short of his 25th birthday, scoring in the 1–3 loss against Rijeka, repeating the feat a week later in his second top tier match, against Slaven Belupo.^[2] He finished his first season in the top tier with 13 goals, the fourth highest total in the league.

Osijek

Gabrijel Boban signed for Osijek in July 2016, on a three-year contract.^[3] He scored 4 goals and contributed 6 assists. In his second season, he scored 6 goals and contributed 9 assists in all competitions, notably scoring in a 1–0 away win over Dinamo Zagreb.^[4] For his performances, he was voted as the NK Osijek Player of the Year.^[5]

Sheriff Tiraspol

Gabrijel Boban move to Sheriff Tiraspol in June 2019 on a free transfer. He signed an 18 months contract. ^[6]

Personal life

Boban's family originates from Sovići in Herzegovina, and he is a distant cousin of Croatia international Zvonimir Boban. Gabrijel Boban is the brother of Bruno Boban who was also a footballer of Slavonija Požega.

References

^ Ilija NESTOROVSKI najbolji strijelac Druge HNL at druga-hnl.com
^ SLAVEN BELUPO - ZAGREB 3:2 Farmaceuti protiv Zagreba u završnici upisali sva tri boda u Koprivnici at jutarnji.hr
^ "Gabrijel Boban potpisao trogodišnji ugovor!". nk-osijek.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 10 May 2018.
^ LiveScore, SofaScore.com. "GNK Dinamo Zagreb NK Osijek live score, video stream and H2H results - SofaScore.com". www.sofascore.com. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
^ "Emotivno u Osijeku: Kohorta zahvalila svom junaku Bobanu" (in Croatian). Retrieved 10 May 2018.
^ "Još jedan Hrvat prijeti Dinamu, Gabrije Boban novi je igrač Šerifa". sportnet.rtl.hr (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 27 June 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2019.

External links

Gabrijel Boban at Soccerway
Gabrijel Boban at Croatian Football Statistics (archived) (in Croatian)

[1] Ilija NESTOROVSKI najbolji strijelac Druge HNL at druga-hnl.com

[2] SLAVEN BELUPO - ZAGREB 3:2 Farmaceuti protiv Zagreba u završnici upisali sva tri boda u Koprivnici at jutarnji.hr

[3] "Gabrijel Boban potpisao trogodišnji ugovor!". nk-osijek.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 10 May 2018.

[4] LiveScore, SofaScore.com. "GNK Dinamo Zagreb NK Osijek live score, video stream and H2H results - SofaScore.com". www.sofascore.com. Retrieved 10 May 2018.

[5] "Emotivno u Osijeku: Kohorta zahvalila svom junaku Bobanu" (in Croatian). Retrieved 10 May 2018.

[6] "Još jedan Hrvat prijeti Dinamu, Gabrije Boban novi je igrač Šerifa". sportnet.rtl.hr (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 27 June 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2019.

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