Ante Covic (soccer player, June 1975)

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Ante Covic
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Ante Covic (2007)
Personnel
birthday June 13, 1975
place of birth Sydney ,  Australia
size 190 cm
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1995 Hurstville ZFC
1996-1997 APIA Leichhardt FC 23 (0)
1997-1999 Marconi Fairfield Stallions 46 (0)
1999-2001 PAOK Thessaloniki 8 (0)
2000 →  AO Kavala  (loan) 15 (0)
2001 Dinamo Zagreb 0 (0)
2002 Olympic Sharks 0 (0)
2002-2006 Hammarby IF 121 (0)
2006-2009 Newcastle United Jets 54 (0)
2009-2011 IF Elfsborg 60 (0)
2011–2012 Melbourne Victory 24 (0)
2012-2015 Western Sydney Wanderers 78 (0)
2015-2016 Perth Glory 28 (0)
2017-2018 Rockdale City Suns
2018 Wellington Phoenix 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2006-2008 Australia 2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ante Covic (original spelling of the last name: Čović [ ˈtʃɔːʋitɕ ]) (born June 13, 1975 in Sydney ) is a former Australian football goalkeeper of Croatian descent . For many years he was a regular goalkeeper at various clubs in Australia and Sweden . He played two games for his country's national soccer team and was the third goalkeeper to take part in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Career

In the club

Covic with the Western Sydney Wanderers (2013)

Ante Covic grew up in Hurstville in the south of Sydney. He began his career at the fourth and second rate clubs Hurstville ZFC and APIA Leichhardt FC from Sydney. At the age of 22, he was in the first division for the first time in 1997 for the Marconi Stallions, who also came from the Australian metropolis . In 1999 he moved to Europe and played for the Greek clubs PAOK Thessaloniki and AO Kavala for the next two years . In the 2001/02 season he was under contract with the Croatian first division club Dinamo Zagreb , without being used there in a league game.

After a brief return to Australia to the Olympic Sharks (now Sydney Olympic) in the first half of 2002, Covic moved several times between clubs from his native Australia and Sweden over the next ten years. First he was the goalkeeper of the Swedish Hammarby IF from Stockholm from 2002 to 2006 , with whom he was runner-up in 2003. From December 2006 to March 2009 he was under contract with Newcastle United Jets and was Australian champion in 2008. From 2009 three more years followed in Sweden at IF Elfsborg . As the successor to Johan Wiland , he was the club's regular goalkeeper, with whom he was twice third and once fourth in the table in the coming seasons. At the beginning of the 2010 season he was still a regular player, but after being sent off on the seventh matchday, he lost the place between the posts to the previous substitute Joakim Wulff , before the club signed a new goalkeeper in July of that year in Jesper Christiansen . When he was injured, Covic returned to goal in summer 2010, but was later ousted by the recovered Dane. Covic and Christiansen alternated several times in goal until Covic's change in autumn 2011.

Covic spent the years 2011 to 2016 back in Australia, first with Melbourne Victory , then three years with the Western Sydney Wanderers and finally a season with Perth Glory . Covic was a regular goalkeeper at all of these clubs. He won the AFC Champions League with the Western Sydney Wanderers in 2014 and was named the best player in this tournament. From 2017 to 2018 he played for the Rockdale City Suns in the second-rate New South Wales Premier League . After the end of the 2018 season, he retired at the age of 43, but returned to the bench of New Zealand's Wellington Phoenix FC for a game in December of that year after their goalkeeper was injured.

In the national team

Covic made his debut in the Australian national team on February 22, 2006 in qualifying for the 2007 Asian Cup . As the third goalkeeper, he was part of the Australian squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Up until 2009 he was occasionally nominated, but only played one more international match in 2008.

Ante Covic has both Australian and Croatian citizenship.

successes

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ante Covic  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Player biography at Hammarby IF (Swedish) ( Memento from December 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Happy Wanderer: Covic doesn't think about quitting on fifa.com . November 14, 2014. Accessed April 23, 2020.
  3. ↑ Wellington Phoenix sign 43-year-old goalkeeper Ante Covic as injury cover (English) on stuff.co.nz . December 6, 2018. Accessed April 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ A-League Player Awards (English) on ultimatealeague.com . Retrieved April 23, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Covic, Ante
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , Australia