Mile Jedinak
Jedinak before a match of the Australian national team (2010)
Michael John " Mile " Jedinak ( born August 3, 1984 in Sydney ) is an Australian football player.
Club career
Jedinak 2000 began his career in the adult area at Sydney United in the National Soccer League ( NSL). After he made his breakthrough in the 2002/03 season, he joined in the summer of 2003 to Croatia, the land of his parents, and hired at the NK Varteks. However, already in 2004 but returned again to Sydney United back who played in the NSW Premier League after setting the NSL. In 2006 he won with United the league championship and coached in the sequence with the A- League club Central Coast Mariners. For the Mariners, he was in the 2006/07 season and not for regular squad, but was repeatedly equipped with short-term contracts in order to compensate for the loss of injured players. He made his debut on 12 November 2006 in the A-League and over the following weeks to seven other stakes. In the season break, he again played for Sydney United, already in February 2007, he signed for season 2007/ 08 a permanent contract with the Mariners.
As a regular player Jedinak reached with the Mariners in 2008, the championship final after defeating First Place as the regular season in the semifinals 3-2 on the Jets return game. In the final they met again on the Jets, was defeated in the deciding game but with 0:1. During the season 2008/ 09 Jedinak was able to confirm its good performance from the previous season, and signed end of December 2008 were already signed a contract with the Turkish first division club Gençlerbirliği Ankara, in which at this time with James Troisi and Bruce Djite two other Australians under contract. For the 2009/10 season he was given on loan to Premier League rivals Antalyaspor, for which he scored both goals in a 2-0 win against his old club Gençlerbirliği in the first round. After the expiry of the loan contract Jedinak played again for Gençlerbirliği and completed for the club still 21 league and 5 cup games in which he scored a total of five goals. After the 2010/2011 season but Jedinak left Ankara and joined the English second division club Crystal Palace. There he was given a contract until 2014.
National
Jedinak played between October and December 2003, a total of nine times for the Australian U -20 team deployed, including at the Junior World Championships in 2003, when Australia moved after victories over Canada and Brazil as group winners into the second round. There they failed because of the team of the host United Arab Emirates.
In March 2008, he debuted in the Australian national team in a friendly match against Singapore. In the following months he came in several parts of the qualification for the Asian Cup 2011 for use. He also participated in the 2010 World Cup and came there to use one. In 2011 he was also appointed to the squad for the Asia Cup. There he completed six games and reached the finals with his team, which was almost lost to Japan.