Ermin Å iljak
Ermin Šiljak ( born May 11, 1973 in Ljubljana ) is a former Slovenian football player. The striker, who won the 1996 title of the Slovenian scorer in the Slovenska Nogometna League, won during his career twice the Slovenian and once the Swiss national champion. With the Slovenian national team, he participated in the European Championship in 2000.
Career
Career Start in Slovenia
After Šiljak had started in his hometown at the NK Ilirija playing football, he made his debut for local rivals NK Svoboda in the adult area. After he had drawn attention to himself there, he changed the course of the season 1993/94 within the city limits to the first division SCT Olimpija Ljubljana. With his new club, he quickly established himself as a regular scorer and placed with 19 goals this season behind Štefan Škaper second in the scorers in the league. He wore a hand critical to winning the league title in the other hand he played in the Slovenian national team and made his debut at the side of Sašo Udovič, Robert Oblak, Gregor Židan and Alfred Jermaniš during a 0-2 defeat against the Macedonian national goals by Zarko Serafimovski and Zoran Boskovski in the National jersey.
At the end of the season 1994/95 Šiljak repeated with his club 's triumph in dera Cup, with 17 goals this season he was here again the most accurate strikers in the league. The following season was not without winning the title for him. Although the club since the country's independence missed the first time winning the championship, as with just three points behind HIT Gorica second place was occupied, in the National Cup the team triumphed for the first time. In the first leg he scored in a 1-0 win at NK Primorje the game-winning hit, which meant winning the title after a 1-1 draw in the return leg. However, he had shone in the league, with 28 goals this season, he landed in front of Faik Kamberović and Dinko Vrabac the title of the scorer of the first Slovenian league.
Years abroad
Šiljak had attracted attention outside the country through his goal threat and his international appearances with Olimpija Ljubljana in the European Cup and the national team of his native country. In summer 1996, he joined the French Division 1 and signed a contract with SC Bastia. On the side of Morlaye Soumah, Wilfrid Gohel, Franck Vandecasteele and Anto Drobnjak he belonged in the following two years regularly in the squad the team, but came short a time, the status of the makeup player also.
During the winter break of the season 1997/98 Šiljak left France and joined the Servette FC Genève in the first Swiss league. On the side of Alexandre Rey, Carlos Varela, Sébastien Fournier and Patrick Bühlmann he won with the club at the end of the following season the Swiss Championship, where he had been injured at the beginning of the season. With a triple broken leg, which he had contracted in September in a match against Albania, he fell out of one and a half years and only came in early 2000 on the field of play back. Nevertheless, he was appointed Srečko Katanec in the squad for the Euro 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands. In preparation game on June 3 against Saudi Arabia he celebrated his 19th international cap his comeback in the selection. During the subsequent tournament, he was sitting in the first two games on the bench before he was in the final group game next Aleksander Knavs, Zlatko Zahovič and Aleš Čeh in the starting lineup and was replaced shortly before the end of Milan Osterc.
In the summer of 2001 Šiljak moved to Sweden and stood at Hammarby IF until the end of the 2001 contract. With four short inserts his stay in Northern Europe was not crowned with success, although the club for the first time in their history won the regional championship. Therefore, he returned to Slovenia and signed during the winter break a contract with the reigning champions NK Maribor. Even before the resumption of gaming operations, he took advantage of a clause in his contract that enabled him to move abroad, and moved on to the Greek club Panionios Athens. By the end of the season, he distinguished himself as a regular scorer and led the club with seven goals this season on a UEFA Cup place. In the following year he took a with the club in the European Cup, he nevertheless decided to change clubs. Since he regularly came into existence in qualifying for the European Championship in 2004 as a goal scorer, to a variety of clubs interested in him.
New employer Šiljaks was the Chinese club Dalian Shide. With four goals by the end of the season he reached the third place in the first Chinese league with the team. After the club did not pay him, he returned to Europe in 2004 and signed in early 2005 a contract with Belgian club Excelsior Mouscron. In the autumn of the year, he finished after the 0-3 defeat against Scotland, which meant the resignation in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup, his international career. By the end of the following season, he played for the club in the First Division, before he even finished his club career.