Alen Stajcic

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Alen Stajcic
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Stajcic, who coached Sydney FC in 2010
Personnel
birthday 2nd November 1973
place of birth Australia
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1994 Mount Druitt Town 6 (0)
1994, 1997 Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC 13 (1)
1998 Bankstown City FC 13 (2)
2000 Western Sydney Passion
2002-2002 Sutherland Sharks FC 21 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2002-2004 NSW Sapphires
2008-2014 Sydney FC (Women)
2014-2019 Australia women
2019– Central Coast Mariners
1 Only league games are given.

Alen Stajcic (born November 2, 1973 ) is a former Australian soccer player and current coach. From April 2014 to January 2019 he was the coach of Australia's women's national soccer team .

Career

societies

Stajcic played between 1994 and 2002 for several clubs in the New South Wales Premier League and also for Australian youth teams . Due to a knee injury, his playing career ended and he became a coach. First he coached the NSW Sapphires in the Women's National Soccer League , which he led to the championship in the 2003/04 season. When the W-League started in Australia in 2008 , he was coach of Sydney FC . He led the club in the first season of 2008/09 in fourth place in the league round. In the subsequent playoff semifinals, the team failed on penalties at Queensland Roar. In the two following seasons of 2009 and 2010/11, 1st place was taken after the league round. In the subsequent playoffs for the championship, they made it into the Grand Final, which was won in 2009 against the Queensland team, now trading as Brisbane Roar . In 2011, the Queenslanders were able to turn the tables and win the final. In the following season, both met again in the semi-finals and again the Queenslanders had the better end on penalties. In 2013, Sydney won the semi-finals in regular time and then won the Grand Final against Melbourne Victory . Against Melbourne came a year later and against Perth Glory 2014 in the semi-finals.

He also worked for the Australian Association. He was the assistant coach of the U-20 women's team at the U-20 Women's World Cup in Russia in 2006 , but from which Australia was eliminated after the preliminary round. In March 2007 he became the head coach of the "Young Matildas". When a player revolt in the senior national team against coach Hesterine de Reus broke out in April 2014, shortly before the 2014 Asian women's soccer championship , Stajcic initially became the interim coach of the Australian women's national soccer team . The first task in May was to defend the title of Asian champion or at least to achieve the World Cup qualification that was played out at the same time. They did not succeed in defending their title - they lost 1-0 to world champions Japan in the final - but by reaching the semi-finals the team qualified for the 2015 World Cup in Canada . Stajcic then became permanent head coach in September, but initially remained coach of Sydney at the same time. On January 19, 2019, he was dismissed as national coach.

In March 2019, he took over from Mike Mulvey as interim coach of the Central Coast Mariners for the last six game days of the 2018/19 A-League season . The team that was beaten at the bottom of the table and had only one league win in 21 games of the season before Stajcic took over, achieved two more wins over the rest of the season. In May 2019 he received a three-year contract as head coach of the Mariners.

Success as a trainer

  • Winner of the Nation Women's Soccer League 2003/04 with NSW Sapphires
  • Australian champions 2009, 2012/13 with Sydney FC
  • Winner of the league round in 2009 and 2010/11 with Sydney FC
  • Second in the 2014 Asian Cup and quarter-finals in the 2015 World Cup with the women's national team
  • Second in the 2018 Asian Cup with the women's national team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ theguardian.com: "Ousting of Matildas coach Hesterine De Reus exposes national team turmoil"
  2. ↑ equalizersoccer.com: "Australia fires de Reus; Stajcic named interim coach "
  3. ↑ theguardian.com: "Matildas confirm Alen Stajcic as permanent head coach"
  4. ↑ fifa.com: Stajcic leaves Matildas
  5. ↑ abc.net.au: Alen Stajcic puts Matildas sacking to the side as he joins A-League's Central Coast Mariners (March 12, 2019) , accessed April 27, 2019
  6. ↑ smh.com.au: Stajcic signs three-year Central Coast Mariners deal (May 2, 2019) , accessed November 30, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Stajcic, Alen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian football coach
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd November 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Australia