Mile Jedinak
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 Mile Jedinak (2009)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Michael John Jedinak | |
| birthday | 3rd August 1984 | |
| place of birth | Sydney , Australia | |
| size | 189 cm | |
| position | Central midfield | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2000-2003 | Sydney United | 28 (3) |
| 2003-2004 | NK Varteks | 0 (0) |
| 2004-2007 | Sydney United | 54 (9) |
| 2006-2008 | Central Coast Mariners | 42 (8) |
| 2009-2011 | Gençlerbirliği Ankara | 38 (4) |
| 2009-2010 | → Antalyaspor (loan) | 28 (5) |
| 2011-2016 | Crystal Palace | 162 (10) |
| 2016-2019 | Aston Villa | 75 (1) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2003 | Australia U-20 | 9 (0) |
| 2008-2018 | Australia | 79 (20) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2018/19 |
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Michael John "Mile" Jedinak (born August 3, 1984 in Sydney ) is a former Australian soccer player .
Club career
Jedinak began his adult career with Sydney United in the National Soccer League (NSL) in 2000 . After he made his breakthrough in the 2002/03 season, he moved to Croatia in the summer of 2003, the country where his parents were born, and joined the NK Varteks . However, in 2004 returned to Sydney United, who played in the NSW Premier League after the NSL was discontinued . In 2006 he won the league championship with United and subsequently trained with the A-League club Central Coast Mariners . At the Mariners he was not part of the regular squad in the 2006/07 season, but was repeatedly equipped with short-term contracts to compensate for the loss of injured players. He made his debut in the A-League on November 12, 2006 and came to seven other missions in the following weeks. During the break of the season he played again for Sydney United, in February 2007 he signed a permanent contract with the Mariners for the 2007/08 season.
As a regular player Jedinak reached the championship final with the Mariners in 2008 , after defeating the Jets 3-2 on a two-way basis in the semifinals as first place in the regular season. In the final they met the Jets again, but lost 1-0 in the decisive game. In the course of the 2008/09 season Jedinak was able to confirm his good performance from the previous season and signed a contract with the Turkish first division club Gençlerbirliği Ankara at the end of December 2008 , in which two other Australians were already under contract with James Troisi and Bruce Djite . For the 2009/10 season he was given on loan to league rivals Antalyaspor , for which he scored both goals in the first half of the season in a 2-0 win against his home club Gençlerbirliği. After the loan contract expired, Jedinak played again for Gençlerbirliği and completed 21 league and 5 cup games for the club in which he scored a total of five goals. After the 2010/2011 season , however, Jedinak left Ankara and joined the English second division club Crystal Palace . There he received a contract until 2014.
In his second season he was promoted to the Premier League with “Palace” . He spent three more years there before moving to Aston Villa in August 2016 , which had recently been relegated to the second division. As with Crystal Palace, Jedinak also achieved promotion to the English elite class with the "Villans", in this case in his third season. After this success, however, his contract was not extended. On July 12, 2020 - one year after leaving Aston Villa - Mile Jedinak ended his active career.
National team
Jedinak played a total of nine times for the Australian U-20 team between October and December 2003 , including at the 2003 Junior World Cup , when Australia moved into the round of 16 as group winners after victories over Canada and Brazil. There you failed because of the team of the host United Arab Emirates.
In March 2008, he made his debut for the Australian senior team in a friendly against Singapore. In the following months he was used in several qualifying games for the 2011 Asian Cup . He also took part in the 2010 World Cup and was used there. In 2011 he was also appointed to the squad for the Asian Cup . There he played six games and reached the final with his team , which was just lost to Japan .
In 2017 he scored all three Australian goals in the play-off second leg for participation in the 2018 World Cup in a 3-1 win over Honduras and thus played a decisive role in the successful qualification. At the World Cup, he scored from the penalty spot both at the start of the 2-1 draw against France and the 1-1 draw in the second group game against Denmark.
After a total of 79 senior international matches, Jelinank announced his retirement from the national team in autumn 2018.
successes
National team
- Asian Champion (1): 2015
Web links
- Mile Jedinak in the database of weltfussball.de
- Profile at the Australian Association
- Entry at ozfootball.net
- Mile Jedinak in the soccerbase.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ sportsaustralia.com: Jedinak to provide midfield spark for Mariners ( Memento from March 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ theworldgame.sbs.com.au: Mariners land Jedinak (Feb. 26, 2007) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ haber7.com: Jedinak Antalyaspor'da (Aug. 19, 2009)
- ↑ BBC.co.uk Crystal Palace sign Australian midfielder Mile Jedinak (English)
- ↑ Aston Villa: Micah Richards and Albert Adomah among eight players released (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Benedikt Duda: “Time for a new chapter”: Ex-Australia captain Jedinak ends his career. In: transfermarkt.de. Transfermarkt.de GmbH & Co. KG, July 12, 2020, accessed on July 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak announces immediate retirement (The Guardian)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jedinak, Mile |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jedinak, Michael John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd August 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney , Australia |