Mark Viduka
Viduka playing for Australia in 2005
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mark Anthony Viduka | ||
| Date of birth | 9 October 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1992–1993 | AIS | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1995 | Melbourne Knights | 48 | (40) |
| 1995–1998 | Dinamo Zagreb | 84 | (40) |
| 1998–2000 | Celtic | 37 | (30) |
| 2000–2004 | Leeds United | 130 | (59) |
| 2004–2007 | Middlesbrough | 72 | (26) |
| 2007–2009 | Newcastle United | 38 | (7) |
| Total | 409 | (202) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1993–1995 | Australia U20 | 20 | (37) |
| 1994–1996 | Australia U23 | 18 | (17) |
| 1994–2007 | Australia | 43 | (11) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:12, 14 August 2009 (BST). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12:00, 22 July 2007 (UTC) |
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Mark Anthony Viduka (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈʋiduka]; born 9 October 1975) is an Australian retired footballer who played as a centre forward. He captained the Australia national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup to the last 16 and holds the record of most goals scored by an Australian in the UEFA Champions League, with four.
In 1993, Viduka started his professional football career in Australia for Croatian-based club Melbourne Knights (which up until the 1993 season was known as Melbourne Croatia) and became an Australian international in June of the following year. In his two seasons with the Knights, he was top goal scorer in the National Soccer League (NSL) and was twice awarded the Johnny Warren Medal for NSL Best Player of the Year in 1993–94 and 1994–95. Viduka's time at Melbourne Knights included one NSL title in the 1994–95 season. The grandstand at Knights' Stadium, home of the Knights, was renamed the "Mark Viduka Stand" in his honour and paid for with his transfer money.
In 1995, Viduka moved to Croatia to play with Croatia Zagreb (now Dinamo Zagreb). He spent three-and-a-half seasons with the club, helping it to win three doubles in Croatia between 1996 and 1998. He was also part of the Croatia Zagreb team that reached the third round of the UEFA Cup in 1997 and went on to make his UEFA Champions League group stage debut with the club a year later.
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