Oliver Bozanic
| Oliver Bozanic | ||
 Bozanic in the jersey of Melbourne Victory (2015)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Oliver John Bozanic | |
| birthday | January 8, 1989 | |
| place of birth | Sydney , Australia | |
| size | 183 cm | |
| position | midfield player | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Avoca FC | ||
| Parramatta Eagles | ||
| 2004-2005 | Blacktown City Demons | |
| 2005-2006 | NSW Institute of Sport | |
| 2006-2007 | Central Coast Mariners | |
| 2007 | Reading FC | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2007-2010 | Reading FC | 0 (0) |
| 2009 | → FC Woking (loan) | 18 (2) |
| 2009 | → Cheltenham Town (loan) | 4 (0) |
| 2009-2010 | → Aldershot Town (loan) | 25 (2) |
| 2010-2013 | Central Coast Mariners | 71 (3) |
| 2013-2015 | FC Luzern | 51 (6) |
| 2015-2017 | Melbourne Victory | 48 (5) |
| 2017-2018 | Ventforet Kofu | 10 (0) |
| 2018 | Melbourne City FC | 7 (0) |
| 2018-2020 | Heart of Midlothian | 43 (6) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2006-2011 | Australia U20 | 17 (2) |
| Australia U23 | ||
| 2013-2015 | Australia | 7 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of June 4, 2020 |
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Oliver John Bozanic (born January 8, 1989 in Sydney ) is an Australian football player . He was most recently under contract with Heart of Midlothian in the Scottish Premiership . His father Vic Bozanic was an Australian national football player in the early 1980s.
Club career
Bozanic came to his first assignments in the adult area during the Pre-Season Cup 2006 for the Central Coast Mariners , but received no professional contract thereafter and moved to the English club Reading FC in early 2007 . In his first two years at Reading, he played for the youth and reserve team, winning the overall championship of the Premier Reserve League with the reserve in 2007 .
Between January and April 2009 he played on loan in the Conference National for Woking FC , scoring two goals in 18 league appearances. Despite the first division relegation of Reading in the 2008/09 season and a contract extension in the summer of 2009, Bozanic was awarded to Cheltenham Town in the Football League Two for the first half of the 2009/10 season . His stay there ended at the end of August after four missions due to a knee injury that he healed at his regular Reading club.
At the end of November 2009 he was awarded to Aldershot Town again in League Two, but broke off his stay in April 2010 after 25 league appearances. At the end of the season he received no new contract offer from Reading and left the club after three years without ever having played a competitive game for the professional team.
Just days after his departure from Reading became known, he signed a two-year contract as a junior marquee player with the Central Coast Mariners. In the A-League season 2012/13 he was Australian champion with the Mariners.
With a two-year contract, he moved to the Swiss Super League for FC Luzern for the 2013/14 season . In the first four games of the season he already scored five goals. The first half of the season was extremely successful for Oliver Bozanic, as well as for the team, and they took second place in the table at the winter break. At the beginning of the second half of the season he had to find his form and strong and weak performances alternated.
He signed a three-year contract with Melbourne Victory in the Australian A-League in September 2015 until the end of 2018.
In March 2017 Bozanic was signed by the Japanese club Ventforet Kofu . He then played briefly at Melbourne City FC before joining Heart of Midlothian in the Scottish Premiership in June 2018 .
National team
Bozanic was part of the Australian squad at the U-19 Asian Cup in 2006 and 2008 . While the team failed in the quarter-finals in 2006, they qualified in 2008 by reaching the semi-finals for the 2009 Junior World Cup in Egypt. He missed the World Cup finals in September 2009 because of a knee injury in August.
In August 2009 he was appointed to the Australian senior team for the first time , but was not used in the subsequent friendly against Ireland. He finally made his debut over four years later when he came on as a substitute for a friendly against Canada in October 2013 .
At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , he made two appearances against the Netherlands and Spain .
Web links
- Oliver Bozanic in the weltfussball.de database
- Oliver Bozanic in the database of soccerbase.com (English)
- Oliver Bozanic in the database of transfermarkt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Bozanic's First Team Challenge (July 9, 2009)
- ↑ bbc.co.uk: Bozanic secures Cheltenham move (July 21, 2009)
- ↑ bbc.co.uk: Reading loan Bozanic to Aldershot (Nov. 26, 2009)
- ↑ bbc.co.uk: Reading's Oliver Bozanic ends Aldershot Town loan spell (April 26, 2010)
- ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Mariners Confirm Bozanic Deal (May 10, 2010)
- ↑ Luzerner Zeitung: FC Luzern sign Oliver Bozanic (June 14, 2013)
- ↑ Victory is a perfect fit for Oliver Bozanic melbournevictory.com.au September 3, 2015
- ↑ thisisgloucestershire.co.uk: Bozanic facing World Cup heartbreak (27 Aug 2009) ( Memento of the original from 12 December 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ theaustralian.com.au: Viduka will be back, says Cahill (August 5, 2009) ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bozanic, Oliver |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bozanic, Oliver John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney |