Goran Hunjak

Football player infobox2| playername= Goran Hunjak
dateofbirth = birth date|1965|11|13|df=y
cityofbirth = Zagreb
countryofbirth = Yugoslavia
height = height|ft=5|in=9
position = Midfielder
years = 1983-1988 1988-1992 1992-1994 1994 1994-1997 1996
1997 1998
1998-1999 1999-2000 2000
2001-2005
clubs = NK Zagreb Wichita Wings (indoor) Baltimore Spirit (indoor) Washington Warthogs (indoor) Kansas City Attack (indoor) Tampa Bay Mutiny
Washington Warthogs (indoor) Kansas City Wizards Kansas City Attack (indoor)
Philadelphia KiXX (indoor) Vermont Voltage
Kansas City Comets (indoor)
caps(goals)=
075 0(91)
025 0(47)
118 (177)
021 00(2)
021 0(18)
012 00(0)
026 0(24)
078 0(92)
00? 00(1)
078 0(41)

Goran Hunjak (born 13 November, 1965 in Yugoslavia) is a retired football (soccer) player.

Hunjak began his professional career in 1983 with for NK Zagreb in the Croatian First Division. In 1988, he moved to the United States and signed with the Wichita Wings in Major Indoor Soccer League. In 1992, the league collapsed and Hunjuk moved to the Baltimore Spirit in the National Professional Soccer League. In 1994, the expansion Washington Warthogs which played a summer indoor soccer in the Continental Indoor Soccer League made Hunjak its first player when it selected him in the expansion draft. He played one season with Washington where he was a first team All Star, [ [http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1994.html The Year in American Soccer - 1994] ] then moved to the Kansas City Attack in the fall of 1994 for three seasons. In January 1996, the Tampa Bay Mutiny drafted Hunjak in the 15th round (144th overall) in the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft. He spent the 1996 season in Tampa Bay filling in as the team's play maker when Carlos Valderrama was with the Columbian national team. [ [http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/03-97/03-19-97/d04sp158.htm MLS prepares for second season with few changes] ] The Mutiny released Hunjak at the end of the season. In spring 1997, he signed with the Washington Warthogs of the Continental Indoor Soccer League. [ [http://www.scorenet-usa.com/soccernet/6.18.97/socshort.htm Soccer Shorts] ] He returned to Major League Soccer after being drafted by the Kansas City Wizards in the first round (eighth overall) of 1998 MLS Supplemental Draft. He saw time in twelve games and was waived on Novmeber 2, 1998. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E7D7133FF931A35752C1A96E958260&sec=&spon= November 2, 1998 Transactions] ] He returned to the NPSL, rejoining his previous team, the Kansas City Attack for the 1998-1999 season. In 1999, he moved to the Philadelphia KiXX for two seasons before transferring to his final team, the Kansas City Comets in 2001. In 2000, he played for the Vermont Voltage in the Premier Development League. [ [http://www.geocities.com/sfarmer_62/roster00.htm 2000 Vermont Voltage roster] ]

He can now be found playing as a ringer with a bunch of kids in the "D" league at All American Indoor Sports in Lenexa, Kansas.

References

External links

* [http://www.kccomets.com/staff/index.php?zone=staff&staff_id=46&statType=Goran Hunjak page on the defunct Kansas City Comets' webpage]