Josip Skoko

Josip Skoko ( born December 10, 1975 in Mount Gambier, South Australia ) is a former Australian football player of Croatian descent.

Career

Club career

North Geelong Warriors, Hajduk Split and KRC Genk

The midfielder started playing football in the state of Victoria in Geelong North Geelong Warriors at the. The Australian of Croatian origin, who also has Croatian citizenship, in 1995 went to Croatia to the football club Hajduk Split. The end of 1999 he accepted an offer from the Belgian first division of Racing Genk. With him as captain Genk won the Belgian football championship in 2002.

Ankara, Wigan Athletic, return to Split, End of career

In 2003 he joined in the Turkish Süper Lig on Gençlerbirligi Ankara. After two years he moved to English club Wigan Athletic, where he was hired in January 2006 to the end of the ongoing season in the second division club Stoke City.

In the summer of 2008 he returned to Hajduk Split before moving in 2010 to Melbourne Heart, where a year later he ended his career.

National team career

Skoko, in 1995, in part with the Australian U -20 team at the Junior World Championship in Qatar, where the team was defeated in the quarterfinals by Portugal 1:2 after extra time. 1997 debuted the midfielder against Macedonia in the senior national team of Australia and took little later in the Confederations Cup in 1997 in part, further participation in this tournament was followed by 2001 and 2005. 2000 he took to the Olympic Team at the Olympic football tournament on home soil in part, the team failed but devoid of points already in the group stage.

He belonged to the Australian World Cup squad at the FIFA World Cup 2006, came during the tournament, but to no use.