Zeljko Kalac

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Zeljko Kalac
Željko Kalac.jpg
Kalac as goalkeeping coach of Sydney FC (2012)
Personnel
birthday December 16, 1972
place of birth Sydney ,  Australia
size 202 cm
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1995 Sydney United 92 (0)
1995-1996 Leicester City 1 (0)
1996-1998 Sydney United 30 (0)
1998-2002 Roda Kerkrade 115 (0)
2002-2005 AC Perugia 79 (0)
2005-2009 AC Milan 38 (0)
2009-2010 AO Kavala 9 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1992-2006 Australia 54 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Zeljko Kalac (born December 16, 1972 in Sydney , Croatian spelling: Željko Kalac , [ ˈʒɛʎkɔ ˈkalats ]) is a former Australian soccer goalkeeper and today's goalkeeper coach .

He completed over 50 international matches for the Australian national soccer team , with which he was three times Oceania champion and took part in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. At club level, he played in Europe for a long time, including as a substitute goalkeeper at AC Milan , with whom he won the Champions League in 2007 .

societies

Kalac, whose parents emigrated to Australia from Croatia, started his career in the late 1980s at the age of 16 in his hometown with Sydney United . In the first division, he was initially second choice behind the Australian goalkeeper Tony Franken . When he left the club in 1991, Kalac competed with England returnees and later national goalkeeper Mark Bosnich , with Kalac predominantly being preferred. Franken returned to Sydney United after a season in 1992, but Kalac prevailed over time as number 1 and stayed that way until 1995. For the 1995/96 season he moved to the second English division at Leicester City , but only rarely came here to Use and consequently returned to Sydney after one season. After two seasons with regular appearances at Sydney United, the Australian moved to Roda Kerkrade in the Dutch honor division for the 1998/99 season . After he was the goalkeeper in Kerkrade for a total of four seasons, Kalac moved to the Italian Serie A club AC Perugia at the beginning of the 2002/03 season . Here, too, he was so right off the bat to main goalkeeper and remained until the 2004/05 season , in Perugia in Serie B played. In 2005 he moved to AC Milan . In his four seasons with Milan he was always a substitute goalkeeper, but came to a total of 38 appearances in the league due to the injuries of the Brazilian goalkeeper Dida . Kalac contributed to AC Milan's Champions League win in 2007 with three appearances in the group stage and in the round of 16. In 2008 he represented Dida for the entire first half of the year. After the return of the previously loaned Christian Abbiati for the 2008/09 season , Kalac was relegated to number three and after only one league game in the season, his contract was dissolved in the summer of 2009. In September 2009 he joined the Greek association AO Kavala . In the summer of 2010, Kalac ended his active career.

National team

Kalac, who made his debut for Australia in 1992 , was the goalkeeper with the most appearances for Australia in the second half of the 1990s; before the prominent competitors Mark Bosnich , Mark Schwarzer and before Jason Petkovic , who are all of the same vintage as Kalac. However, especially in global tournaments, he often had to give way to others. Bosnich, for example, was the goalkeeper who led Australia to the final of the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup . In contrast, Kalac was the goalkeeper with the most playing times at the three Oceania Championships , which his country won in 1996 , 2000 and 2004 ; in the 2004 final, however, black was in goal. In 1998 and 2002, when Australia lost the final to New Zealand , Petkovic was number 1.

While Bosnich and Petkovic did not get a chance from the early 2000s, a rivalry between Schwarzer and Kalac developed in the first half of the decade. Both had known each other since they were young. The goalkeepers already played in the same Sydney youth team at the U-12 level and in 1989 both took part in the U-16 World Cup in Scotland. Schwarzer represented Australia at the Confederations Cups in 2001 and 2005 and finally went into the finals of the 2006 World Cup in Germany as number 1 . Only in the last group game against Croatia was Kalac in goal, but could not convince and acted unhappy with both goals conceded - in the game that ended in a 2-2 draw. Kalac ended his international career with a friendly against Paraguay in October 2006, while Schwarzer was the goalkeeper of Australia until 2013. Kalac completed a total of 54 international matches for Australia. Behind Schwarzer and his successor Mathew Ryan , he is the goalkeeper with the third most international matches for Australia.

After the active career

Post as goalkeeping coach

On August 9, 2011, Kalac joined the Sydney FC from the A-League as a goalkeeping coach . Even after coach Frank Farina was sacked, the Sydney-born Kalac remained goalkeeping coach, but left the club at the end of the 2014/15 season. He then joined the Western Sydney Wanderers . On October 3, 2017, Zeljko Kalac became goalkeeping coach in Turkey at Kardemir Karabükspor . After his involvement in the Süper Lig ended, he returned to Australia and became goalkeeping coach at Melbourne City FC in July 2018 .

family

Kalac's son Oliver is also a goalkeeper and has already participated in the 2019 World Cup with Australia's U-17 team.

successes

society

National team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Daniel Lewis: Viduka to play Kalac tribute game. In: smh.com.au . July 16, 2010, accessed May 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ National players of Australia 1995
  3. ↑ Australian national team player 1996
  4. ↑ Australian national team 1997
  5. ↑ Australia national team 1998
  6. ↑ National player of Australia 1999
  7. ↑ Kalac's exit spells end of keeper debate. In: smh.com.au . October 6, 2010, accessed May 19, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Kalac back in the hot seat at theage.com.au . May 24, 2004. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  9. ↑ FIFA U-17 World Cup Scotland 1989 - Australia. (No longer available online.) Fifa.com , archived from the original ; accessed on May 18, 2020 (English).
  10. ↑ Sydney FC Appoints Zeljko Kalac as Goalkeeper coach. (No longer available online.) Football Federation Australia , Aug 9, 2011, archived from the original ; accessed on February 16, 2020 (English).
  11. ^ Zeljko Kalac joins Western Sydney Wanderers. May 22, 2015, accessed on February 16, 2020 .
  12. ^ Hayden Foxe named Wanderers Caretaker Head Coach. October 3, 2017, accessed on February 16, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Victory sign King Kenny, City bring in Rado Vidosic and Kalac , The Sydney Morning Herald , June 18, 2018, accessed February 16, 2020
  14. ↑ Dominic Bossi: Wanderers throw teenager between the posts to solve goalkeeping crisis (English) on smh.com.au . April 19, 2019. Accessed April 24, 2020.
  15. ↑ Oliver Kalac's national team career at Transfermarkt.de . Retrieved April 24, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Kalac, Zeljko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , Australia