Tony Popovic

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Tony Popovic
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Personnel
Surname Anthony Popovic
birthday 4th July 1973
place of birth Sydney ,  Australia
size 194 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
Fairvale High School
Sydney United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1997 Sydney United 162 (15)
1994 →  Canberra FC  (loan) 5 0(1)
1997-2001 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 109 (17)
2001-2006 Crystal Palace 119 0(7)
2006-2007 al-Arabi 17 0(3)
2007-2008 Sydney FC 27 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Australia U17
Australia U-20
Australia U-23
1995-2006 Australia 58 ( 08)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2008-2011 Sydney FC (assistant coach)
2011–2012 Crystal Palace (assistant coach)
2012-2017 Western Sydney Wanderers FC
2017 Kardemir Karabükspor
2018– Perth Glory
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

Anthony "Tony" Popovic (born July 4, 1973 in Sydney , Croatian spelling of the surname: Popović , [ ˈpɔːpɔʋitɕ ]) is a former Australian football player of Croatian descent , who was used in the position of a defender . He completed over fifty international matches for the Australian national soccer team , with which he took part in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. At club level, he played in Australia, Japan , England and Qatar .

After the end of his active career, he struck a coaching career .

Player career

society

Popovic began his career in 1989 with Sydney United , for which he played until 1997. It was awarded to Canberra FC in 1994, but returned to Sydney that year. In 1997 he moved to Japan for five years at Sanfrecce Hiroshima . 2001 then followed the step into the second English division , where he was used at the London club Crystal Palace . In the 2004/05 season he played a year with the team in the Premier League before the club had to relegate back to the second division. In the meantime, Popovic became the team's captain. After the contract had expired at the end of the 2005/06 season, he moved to Qatar in the summer of 2006 to al-Arabi , which he left again for the summer break before the 2007/08 season to return to his home country. From 2007 to November 2008 he was active for Sydney FC . Then he ended his career as a football player.

National team

From 1989 Tony Popovic went through the various youth selections of Australia and was also a member of the Australian team at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . From 1995 to 2006 he was a permanent member of the Australian senior team , where he made 58 appearances and scored eight goals. In 2005 he was able to celebrate the second qualification for a soccer world championship after 1974 with the team . In the following year he was also part of the Australian World Cup squad at the 2006 tournament in Germany and was used in the preliminary round match against the Brazilian team . In 1996, 2000 and 2004 he was also able to win the OFC Nations Cup with his country . Popovic ended his international career with a friendly against Paraguay in October 2006. This was also the farewell game for his long-time national team mates Zeljko Kalac , Stan Lazaridis and Tony Vidmar .

Coaching career

From 2008 to 2011 Popovic was an assistant coach at Sydney FC. In the 2011/12 season he was employed with Crystal Palace FC as an assistant coach at another of his previous clubs and reached 17th place in the league consisting of 24 clubs with the then English second division team. In 2012 he became the head coach of the newly formed franchise Western Sydney Wanderers FC . During his tenure he reached the runner-up three times. In 2013 he and his team won the regular season of the Australian A-League and in 2014 he won the Asian Champions League . In October 2017 he left the team and took over Kardemir Karabükspor in the Turkish Süper Lig . There he only achieved one win out of eight games in the 2017/18 season and was released after two months. In May 2018 he became the new head coach of Perth Glory , with whom he again won the regular season of the A-League in 2019.

Personal

Popovic's sons Kristian (* 2001) and Gabriel (* 2003) are also professional soccer players.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aidan Ormond: Popa's Euro Coach Dream. In: ftbl.com.au . August 18, 2008, accessed August 10, 2020 .
  2. ^ Australia draw with Paraguay. In: myfootball.com.au . October 8, 2006, accessed August 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Trainer profile Popovics at transfermarkt.de . Last access: August 11, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Popovic, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popovic, Anthony (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , Australia