Ante Čović
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| Ante Čović | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Date of birth | June 13, 1975 | |
| Place of birth | Sydney, Australia | |
| Height | 1.92 m | |
| Playing position | goalkeeper | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Newcastle Jets | |
| Number | 40 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1997-99 1999-2001 2001 2002-06 2007 |
Marconi Stallions PAOK Salonika NK Dinamo Zagreb Hammarby Newcastle United Jets |
46 (0) 8 (0) 0 (0) 121 (0) 5 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Ante Čović [ˈaːntɛ ˈtʃɔːʋitɕ] (born June 13, 1975) is an Australian football (soccer) player of Croatian descent. He is a goalkeeper who currently plays for Newcastle United Jets in the Australian A-League. He formerly played for Hammarby in Sweden, as well as Marconi Stallions and Sydney Olympic in Australia's old National Soccer League, PAOK Salonika and AO Kavala in Greece and Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia. He was part of the Australian squad for the 2006 World Cup qualifiers against Uruguay and was Australia's third choice goalkeeper behind Mark Schwarzer and Željko Kalac for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. He made his debut for Australia against Bahrain on February 22, 2006 in an Asian Cup qualifier and, to date, this is his sole international cap.
Covic made his A-League debut in a 3-2 loss to Adelaide United in December 2006 at Hindmarsh Stadium.
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| Newcastle United Jets - Current Squad |
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2 Eagleton | 3 North | 4 Deans | 5 Rodriguez | 6 Durante | 7 Faria | 8 Thompson | 9 Coveny | 10 Carle | 11 Elrich | 12 Okon | 13 D'Apuzzo | 14 Wheelhouse | 15 Musialik | 16 Haliti | 17 Ozbey | 18 J. Griffiths | 19 Bridge | 20 Kennedy | 22 Old | 24 Kohler | 40 Čović | Manager: van Egmond |
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Australia squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup | |
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1 Schwarzer | 2 Neill | 3 Moore | 4 Cahill | 5 Čulina | 6 Popović | 7 Emerton | 8 Skoko | 9 Viduka | 10 Kewell | 11 Lazaridis | 12 Čović | 13 Grella | 14 Chipperfield | 15 Aloisi | 16 Beauchamp | 17 Thompson | 18 Kalac | 19 Kennedy | 20 Wilkshire | 21 Sterjovski | 22 Milligan | 23 Bresciano | Coach: Hiddink |
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