Dario Vizinger (born 6 June 1998) is a Croatian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club Mura.

Club career

Varaždin

Vizinger made his senior club debut for NK Varaždin on 24 August 2014. During the 2014–15 season of the 3. HNL, he scored six goals.

Rijeka

In June 2015, Vizinger signed a contract with

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of the Croatian top division. In his first season with the club, Vizinger mainly featured for Rijeka II in the 3. HNL, scoring seven goals in twenty appearances. On 7 May 2016, he made his official début for the first team, when he entered as a substitute in an away draw against

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in the 35th round of the 2015–16 season.

Loans

After not making a single appearance in the first half of the 2016–17 season, he was sent on loan to second division side Hrvatski Dragovoljac in February 2017. He made 12 appearances in the

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for the club, in which he scored twice. For the 2017–18 season, Vizinger was loaned to Slovenian first division club Rudar Velenje, scoring two goals in 12 appearances during the first half of the season.

Celje

In January 2018, the loan was terminated prematurely and Vizinger was signed on a permanent contract by Velenje's league rivals

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. Initially struggling to find the net, he would make his breakthrough in the 2019–20 season, making 35 league appearances and scoring 23 goals, making him second on the top goalscorers list in the league, only behind

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, as Celje won the league title. He received the award for the best young player of the season and was named 2019–20 PrvaLiga Team of the Year.

Wolfsberger AC

On 8 September 2020, Vizinger signed a four-year contract with

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club

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. He made his debut on the opening day of the 2020–21 season against Red Bull Salzburg on 13 September 2020, coming off the bench and scoring his first goal in a 3–1 defeat. His team having qualified for the group stage of the

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, Vizinger scored the winner of the 1–0 victory against

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on 3 December 2020.

Honours

Celje *

: 2019–20 Individual *Slovenian PrvaLiga Team of the Year: 2019–20 *Slovenian PrvaLiga Young Player of the Year: 2019–20

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vizinger, Dario 1998 births Living people Footballers from Čakovec Men's association football forwards Croatian men's footballers 21st-century Croatian sportsmen Croatia men's youth international footballers Croatia men's under-21 international footballers NK Varaždin (1931–2015) players HNK Rijeka players HNK Rijeka II players NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac players NK Rudar Velenje players NK Celje players Wolfsberger AC players SSV Jahn Regensburg players Warta Poznań players NŠ Mura players Second Football League (Croatia) players Croatian Football League players First Football League (Croatia) players Slovenian PrvaLiga players Austrian Football Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Ekstraklasa players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Poland