
Photo: Roberta Accettulli / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Vid Belec embodies the loneliest job on the pitch. A 192 cm goalkeeper from Maribor, he ended up guarding the net for APOEL in Cyprus, far from home. I have always felt keepers are unfairly judged: outfield players get the applause for goals, while a single error follows a goalkeeper for years. Staying calm under that weight takes a rare kind of nerve, and choosing responsibility over glamour says a lot about character. The saves that quietly rescue a team never show up neatly in the stats, and that is precisely where I think his real worth lives. A steady, unsung guardian.
Overview
Vid Belec (Slovene pronunciation: [ˈʋíːd ˈbéːləts]; born 6 June 1990) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Cypriot First Division club APOEL.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Vid Belec
- Name (Japanese)
- ヴィド・ベレツ
- Reading
- ゔぃど・べれつ
- Born
- June 6, 1990 (age 36)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Horse
- Origin
- Maribor, Slovenia
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 192 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.