Robert Zabica

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Robert Zabica
Personal information
Full name	Robert Zabica
Date of birth	April 9, 1964 (1964-04-09) (age 44)
Place of birth	Spearwood, Western Australia, Australia
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Youth clubs
	Cockburn City
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988–1994 1995 1996–1997 1997 1997–1998 1998 1999 2000 2001	Adelaide City Spearwood Dalmatinac Perth Glory Spearwood Dalmatinac Bradford City Cockburn City Bayswater City Panthers Inglewood United Fremantle City	0? (?) 0? (?) 07 (0) 0? (?) 03 (0) 0? (?) 0? (?) 0? (?) 0? (?)
National team
1990–1994	Australia	28 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Robert Zabica (born April 9, 1964 in Spearwood, Western Australia) is an Australian former football player of Croatian descent. Zabica played as a goalkeeper. Zabica represented the Australian national football team 28 times in 'A' international matches and also represented Western Australia.

[edit] Playing career

Zabica started his career with Cockburn City before joining Adelaide City for seven seasons, winning National Soccer League championships in 1992 and 1994. He played for Australia in the qualifiers for the 1994 World Cup finals, losing narrowly to Argentina. A nagging knee injury forced his international retirement, but he made a comeback in 1995 with Dalmatinac with whom he won the D'Orsogna Cup. He made his State debut at the age of 31, captaining the side that beat West Ham United in 1995, and went on to play a further five times for Western Australia. He returned to national league level in 1997, making seven appearances for Perth Glory and taking his career tally to 202 games. He had a three-match spell in England with Bradford City in late 1997 and returned to Perth to play for Bayswater City SC, Inglewood United and Fremantle City.