Blagoja Celeski

Personal information
Billy Celeski
Full name	Blagoja Celeski
Date of birth	July 14, 1985 (1985-07-14) (age 22)
Place of birth	Ohrid, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Central Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Melbourne Victory
Number	24
Youth clubs
2001 2002-2003	Preston Lions Bulleen Zebras VIS AIS
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-present	Bulleen Zebras Perth Glory Bulleen Zebras Perth Glory Melbourne Victory	18 (0) 24 (4) 00 (0)
National team²
2004-2005 2006-2007	Australia U-20 Australia U-23	14 (0) 03 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 January 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 4 December 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Blagoja 'Billy' Celeski (Macedonian: Благоја Целески) (born July 14, 1985 in Ohrid, SFR Yugoslavia, now the Republic of Macedonia) is an Australian football (soccer) player of Ethnic Macedonian origin. He currently plays for Melbourne Victory as a central midfielder. His cousin is Perth Glory player Naum Sekulovski.

[edit] Club career

Celeski signed for Perth Glory for the 2005/2006 A-League season from Bulleen playing 18 times and won the club's media award, but was released at the end of the season. Celeski graduated from the Victorian Institute of Sport and Australian Institute of Sport. In March 2007 Celeski was signed by Perth Glory again. His first major shining performance in the A-League came on Saturday, December 15, 2007 - where Celeski scored a hat-trick in Perth Glory's 4-2 win over Sydney FC at the Sydney Football Stadium. He signed to Melbourne Victory at the end of the 2007/08 season.