Danny Milosevic
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| Danny Milosevic | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dejan Milosevic | |
| Date of birth | June 26, 1978 | |
| Place of birth | Melbourne, Australia | |
| Height | 1,88 m. | |
| Playing position | goalkeeper | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Inglewood United | |
| Number | 1 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1993-1994 | AIS | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1995-1997 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2004 2002 2003 2003 2004 2005-2006 2007-present 2007 |
Canberra Cosmos Arminia Bielefeld Preußen Münster Perth Glory Leeds United Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) Plymouth Argyle (loan) Crewe Alexandra (loan) Celtic F.C. New Zealand Knights Inglewood United Perth Glory loan |
14 (0) ? (0) ? (0) 17 (0) 0 (0) 1 (0) 1 (0) 2 (0) 0 (0) 19 (0) ? (?) 0 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Danny Milosevic (Serbian Cyrilic: Дени Милошевић) (born June 26, 1978 in Melbourne, Australia) is a football (soccer) player who was most recently a goalkeeper for the New Zealand Knights in the Hyundai A-League before joining West Australian club Inglewood United. A former Australian Under-23 international at the 2000 Olympic Games and under 17,20 youth international, Danny came to the Knights after five years at Leeds United in England where he was understudy to goalkeepers of such pedigree as Nigel Martyn and Paul Robinson.
Danny started off his professional career with the Canberra Cosmos in the old NSL and captained the Under 20 Australian side to the World Youth Cup in 1997 as well as playing in Germany before joining Perth Glory where he was a high profile signing under popular new coach Bernd Stange in 1998. Whilst having a strong start to his time in Perth and gaining cult hero status, an incident against the Gippsland Falcons where he ran 30 yards to push an opponent left him as a benchwarmer for the rest of the season.
Danny moved to Leeds United F.C. for 110,000 pounds after only one season at the Perth Glory and he hardly ever got a chance with the likes of England number two Nigel Martyn and now England number one Paul Robinson ahead of him. Following a glut of loan periods he was released by Leeds United F.C. and was signed up on a pay as you play contract in Scotland with Celtic F.C.. After only a couple of weeks and with the two better keepers at Celtic F.C. out, Danny was set for a call up for the starting XI but decided that he wasn't being paid enough and decided to walk out on the club, echoing what his fellow Australian Mark Viduka had done some 4 years earlier.
Danny never returned to Glasgow, and was without a club until he joined the New Zealand Knights for the inaugural A-League season on the advice of former glory team mate Danny Hay. The Knights first season was a disaster, despite Milosevic's often valiant efforts in keeping scorelines below 10-0 and more like 3-0. A change in management for the second season saw two able goalkeepers brought in as competition (Mark Paston and Michael Turnbull), yet Milosevic still started the season as the club's #1. However the poor morale at the club and increasing strain on them to promote more New Zealand players saw Milosevic demoted to the bench with All-Whites keeper Paston ahead of him. Before the close of the A-League's second season Milosevic was released from his contract.
