ELF: Fehérvár Enthroners coax All Star DB Goran Zec out of retirement
The Fehérvár Enthroners have announced the signing of All Star defensive back and career interceptions leader Goran Zec for the 2025 European League of Football season.
In his previous three seasons in the ELF (2021, 2022 and 2023), Zec recorded 208 tackles including 16.5 for loss and 3.5 sacks to go along with 13 interceptions two of which he returned for touchdowns. The 13 picks still stand as the most in ELF history.
The 30-year-old had retired prior to the 2024 season after spending the 2023 season with the Stuttgart Surge and 2022 and part of 2021 with the Wroclaw Panthers. He was a leader in the Stuttgart secondary after reuniting with head coach Jordan Neuman and defensive coordinator Cody Pastorino. The 5 ‘10″, 185-pound Serb racked up 70 tackles, three pass break ups, and three interceptions in 11 games for the Surge.
In 2022 with the Wroclaw Panthers, Zec amassed 88 tackles, 3.5 sacks, three forced fumbles, eight pass break-ups and a league-leading six interceptions. Despite his stellar performance, the Panthers went 5-7, a step down from their inaugural year.
Zec returned to Serbia for the Covid-19-year and played the start of 2021 for the Vukovi Beograd (Belgrade), one of Serbia’s premier clubs, before getting the call up from the Panthers later in the year. In 10 games with Wroclaw in 2021 he recorded 50 tackles including 12 tackles for loss while snagging four interceptions.
The 2022 ELF All-Star first began youth career in 2007 playing for the Indija Indians, about an hour north of Belgrade. For the next 11 years, he bounced between the Indians and the Novi Sad Dukes before signing for German powerhouse, the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns in 2018, where he was coached by Jordan Neuman for the first time– before reuniting with Stuttgart’s head coach in 2023.
In two seasons with the Unicorns, he began to show how versatile he could be as a defender racking up 103 tackles, 10 pass break-ups, four interceptions and a touchdown, and won his first National Championship, the German Football League title, in 2018.
