Let me present ND Gorica, fotball club from Slovenia.
ND Gorica is a fotball club based in Nova Gorica in SLovenia. Nova Gorica is a planned town, buolt after 1947 following Paris Peace Treaty which left Gorizia out of Yugoslavia in Italia. As a counterpart on Yugoslavian side, Nova Gorica (eng.: New Gorizia) was built. The town is a centre of region near Soča river, Vipava valley and Karst hills and plateau around. Town slowly grew and it currently has around 15.000 peopole, with municipality surrounding it around 31.000.
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Nova Gorica during night.
ND Gorica
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Back to fotball club, ND Grica was established in 1947 as "Gorica Physical Culture Club", in 1961 it merged with another local club and renamed into Nogometno društvo Gorica (eng.: Football Society Gorica). During its time in Yugoslavia (Up to 1991) to club mainly played in lower leagues, only in late 80s it rose up to Slovenian republic league ( 3. division). After Slovenian independence it was one of 21 football clubs that formed 1. Slovenian league. It finished in 4. place. In 1995-1996 ND gorica finished first among reduced, 10-club first league and finished Olimpija Ljubljana 4 years of reign. Following ND Gorica success, NK Maribor would follow to dominate league for 7 years before it was interupted by, guess who.... ND Gorica, who won its second tittle during 2002-2003 season. This season would also mark the start of Gorica`s domination, which would end in 2006 after 3 tittles in a row. After that Gorica would fail to win a tittle again, mostly wandering in the golden middle, finishing second during 2006-2007 and 2008-2009 campaign but falling later and almost getting relegated during bad 2014-2015 season when club finished 9th and managed to avoid relegation in playoff qualifications against Aluminij. However, despite severe financial drawbacks, club managed to kick back, becoming a talent factory under the Alps. Good work with young players led to club finishing 2nd during 2016-2017 campaign, their best result in almost 10 years.
Their good performances during last season although they were marked as main favourite for relegation inspired me to take them on a yourney and try to make them the best again. I have decide to share this story with you, as there are not many stories with clubs in smaller leagues and countries like Slovenia. I hope you will enyoy. For any grammar mistakes I apologise in advance, english is not my best side....
ND Gorica is a fotball club based in Nova Gorica in SLovenia. Nova Gorica is a planned town, buolt after 1947 following Paris Peace Treaty which left Gorizia out of Yugoslavia in Italia. As a counterpart on Yugoslavian side, Nova Gorica (eng.: New Gorizia) was built. The town is a centre of region near Soča river, Vipava valley and Karst hills and plateau around. Town slowly grew and it currently has around 15.000 peopole, with municipality surrounding it around 31.000.
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Nova Gorica during night.
ND Gorica
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Back to fotball club, ND Grica was established in 1947 as "Gorica Physical Culture Club", in 1961 it merged with another local club and renamed into Nogometno društvo Gorica (eng.: Football Society Gorica). During its time in Yugoslavia (Up to 1991) to club mainly played in lower leagues, only in late 80s it rose up to Slovenian republic league ( 3. division). After Slovenian independence it was one of 21 football clubs that formed 1. Slovenian league. It finished in 4. place. In 1995-1996 ND gorica finished first among reduced, 10-club first league and finished Olimpija Ljubljana 4 years of reign. Following ND Gorica success, NK Maribor would follow to dominate league for 7 years before it was interupted by, guess who.... ND Gorica, who won its second tittle during 2002-2003 season. This season would also mark the start of Gorica`s domination, which would end in 2006 after 3 tittles in a row. After that Gorica would fail to win a tittle again, mostly wandering in the golden middle, finishing second during 2006-2007 and 2008-2009 campaign but falling later and almost getting relegated during bad 2014-2015 season when club finished 9th and managed to avoid relegation in playoff qualifications against Aluminij. However, despite severe financial drawbacks, club managed to kick back, becoming a talent factory under the Alps. Good work with young players led to club finishing 2nd during 2016-2017 campaign, their best result in almost 10 years.
Their good performances during last season although they were marked as main favourite for relegation inspired me to take them on a yourney and try to make them the best again. I have decide to share this story with you, as there are not many stories with clubs in smaller leagues and countries like Slovenia. I hope you will enyoy. For any grammar mistakes I apologise in advance, english is not my best side....