Kristian Sirum Novak (born 19 October 1998) is a Norwegian

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who plays as a defender.

Career

Novak played youth football at

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and

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, before starting his senior career with the latter in 2014. Ahead of the 2017 season, he joined

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's youth setup. A year later he was promoted to the senior squad, but a knee injury kept him on the sideline for most of the 2018 season. In 2019, he moved to

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, and then

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. After two seasons with Grorud, he signed a contract with Jerv in January 2021. On 3 April 2022, he made his

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debut in a 1–0 win against

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Personal life

He is the son of a Norwegian mother and Croatian father. He hails from Håbafjell in

Sandnes Sandnes () is a city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It lies immediately south of Stavanger, the 4th largest municipality in Norway, and together the Stavanger/Sandnes area is the third-largest urban area in Norway. The urban city of Sand ...

and is the older brother of Norwegian international handballer Kristina Novak.

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* * 1998 births People from Sandnes Footballers from Rogaland Living people Norwegian people of Croatian descent Men's association football defenders Norwegian men's footballers Norway men's youth international footballers Ålgård FK players Viking FK players Sola FK players Grorud IL players FK Jerv players Östersunds FK players Norwegian Third Division players Norwegian Second Division players Norwegian First Division players Eliteserien players Superettan players Norwegian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-footy-defender-stub