{"id":133283,"date":"2026-03-17T16:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/honor-and-pride-for-the-dragon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:51:01","slug":"honor-and-pride-for-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/honor-and-pride-for-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor and Pride for the Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"319\">Two <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">NK Olimpija Ljubljana<\/span><\/span> players have been named to Slovenia&#8217;s national team squad for the upcoming matches against Hungary and Montenegro. Goalkeeper <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Matev\u017e Vidov\u0161ek<\/span><\/span> returns to the national team after a lengthy absence, while left-back <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jo\u0161t Urban\u010di\u010d<\/span><\/span> has earned his first senior call-up. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"321\" data-end=\"636\">Vidov\u0161ek is back in the national team after 280 days of hard work and patience: &#8220;I&#8217;m very happy and proud to be here again. Every call-up is a tremendous honor and confirmation that hard work pays off. It&#8217;s always a special feeling to wear the national team jersey, as you represent your country, the people, and everyone who supports you on this journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"638\" data-end=\"1067\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Urban\u010di\u010d, who has previously played for youth national team selections, says about his first senior call-up: &#8220;This is definitely one of the best moments in my career so far. First, I fulfilled my dream by joining Olimpija, and now with a call-up to Slovenia&#8217;s senior team. I&#8217;m very grateful for the trust shown by the manager. But I&#8217;m well aware that this is just the beginning. I&#8217;m heading to the national team with a great deal of motivation and desire to prove myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two NK Olimpija Ljubljana players have been named to Slovenia&#8217;s national team squad for the upcoming matches against Hungary and Montenegro. Goalkeeper Matev\u017e Vidov\u0161ek returns to the national team after a lengthy absence, while left-back Jo\u0161t Urban\u010di\u010d has earned his first senior call-up. Vidov\u0161ek is back in the national team after 280 days of hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":133266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-https-nkolimpija-si-en-news-first-team-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}