Warner Brown heads to Slovenia with NS Mura
Published:Sunday | January 22, 2023 | 1:39 AMDaniel Wheeler - Staff Reporter
FORMER ST Andrew Technical High School and Tivoli Gardens player Warner Brown will get the opportunity to spread his wings in Europe, signing with Slovenian club NS Mura.
Brown was unveiled on Monday, signing a two-year deal with the club until June 2025. Brown was previously with Major League Soccer Next Pro team, Rochester NY, on loan from Tivoli Gardens, where he spent two seasons under his STATHS head coach Philip Williams.
Club director, Denis Rajbar, described the signing as one for the long term and believes that he will be fighting for a place with the first team based on his technical ability and how he adapts to his new surroundings. Rajbar said that he will be loaned immediately to a second-division club in order for him to gain the experience that he needs.
“Warner moved to Murska Sobota as an investment for the future. He will cultivate his knowledge in the second Slovenian football league, where we will follow his development in detail. If he develops as we want, he will later compete for a place in the Mura team,” Rajbar told the club website.
PROMISING CHAPTER
Brown said that he was excited about this promising chapter in his young career, hoping to use the league as a springboard to success in similar fashion to national forward, Shamar Nicholson, and others.
“I am very happy to join Mura, I am looking forward to new challenges. I already inquired about some things about the club before arriving, I know that Mura was a champion, that it has great fans,” Brown told the club website.
“I am ready to fight for my chance, I want to prove myself and show what I know. I hope to leave such a mark as some Jamaican footballers have already left in the Slovenian league.”
Nicholson started his European career in Slovenia with NK Domzale, with his performances being the launch pad for successive moves to Belgium division one team Charleroi and to Russian club Spartak Moscow.