Ivan Vicelich
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ivan Robert Vicelich | ||
| Date of birth | 3 September 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Auckland, New Zealand | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back, Defensive midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Auckland City FC | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1995 | Waitakere City F.C. | 64 | (4) |
| 1996–1999 | Central United | 100 | (18) |
| 1999–2001 | Football Kingz | 46 | (6) |
| 2001–2006 | Roda JC | 129 | (14) |
| 2006–2008 | RKC Waalwijk | 21 | (0) |
| 2008–2010 | Auckland City FC | 49 | (9) |
| 2010 | Shenzhen Ruby F.C. | 15 | (0) |
| 2010– | Auckland City FC | 119 | (10) |
| National team‡ | |||
| New Zealand U-17 | |||
| New Zealand U-20 | |||
| New Zealand U-23 | |||
| 1995–2013 | New Zealand | 88 | (6) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 June 2010 NZST. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 09 September 2013 |
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Ivan Robert Vicelich, MNZM (born 3 September 1976) is a former New Zealand professional footballer who is currently assistant coach at Auckland City FC in the ASB Premiership.
He is his country's most-capped international of all time with 88 caps between 1995 and 2013, and featured at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Vicelich played for Waitakere City FC and Central United in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Premier before establishing himself as one of the best players for the Football Kingz, when the Auckland-based club joined the Australian National Soccer League in 1999.
Thanks to the contacts he made through his Football Kingz colleague, John Lammers, he was able to impress Roda JC Kerkrade, with whom he signed in 2001. He was a regular player for the Dutch team until May 2006 when he signed a 2-year contract with fellow Eredivisie club side, RKC Waalwijk.
He returned to New Zealand and signed with Auckland City FC in the New Zealand Football Championship before the start of the 2008–09 season and was a key member of the Auckland squad that contested the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates in 2009.
In July 2010, following the 2010 FIFA World Cup in which Vicelich started every one of New Zealand's three games, he signed a short-term deal to play for Chinese Super League club Shenzhen Ruby F.C. for four months. He returned to former club Auckland City FC in December 2010, following a 30-day stand-down period. Aged 38, he received the adidas Bronze Ball as the third best player at the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco – at which Auckland finished in a surprise third place – bettered only by Real Madrid duo Cristiano Ronaldo and Sergio Ramos.
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