Mile Sterjovski

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Personal information
Mile Sterjovski
Date of birth	May 27, 1979 (age 27)
Place of birth	Wollongong, Australia
Height	1.81 m
Nickname	Sterj
Playing position	Midfielder, Forward
Club information
Current club	FC Basel
Number	8
Youth clubs
1996-1998	AIS
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996-1997 1997 1997-1999 1999-2000 2000-2004 2004-present	Wollongong United Illawarra Lions Sydney United Parramatta Power Lille FC Basel	2 (0) ? (?) 37 (20) 31 (11) 91 (15) 73 (10)
National team²
2000-present	Australia	27 (4)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of November 20, 2006. ² National team caps and goals correct as of November 13, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Mile Sterjovski (Macedonian cyrillic: Миле Стерјовски) (born on May 27, 1979 in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder of Ethnic Macedonian origin, who currently plays for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League and the Australian national team. He was a member of the Australian national team at the under 20 1999 World Youth Cup finals in Nigeria and also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

He made his Australian national team debut against Scotland in 2000 and has previously played for Lille OSC in Ligue 1, Parramatta Power, Sydney United and Wollongong Wolves in Australia. He joined Basel from Lille in the summer of 2004.

Sterjovski was selected to represent Australia at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. In the build-up, he made an appearance in the Australia vs. Greece friendly at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and also played against Liechtenstein, scoring the first goal for the Socceroos in a 3-1 win. In Germany he started against Brazil and against Croatia.

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Player Stats

	Australia squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup
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

FC Basel - Current Squad
1 Costanzo \| 3 Džombić \| 5 Majstorovic \| 6 Nakata \| 8 Sterjovski \| 9 Carignano \| 10 Petrić \| 11 Chipperfield \| 12 Ba \| 15 Burgmeier \| 17 Rakitić \| 18 Crayton \| 19 Buckley \| 20 Caicedo \| 21 Pedro \| 22 Ergić \| 23 Eduardo \| 25 Sommer \| 26 Kavelashvili \| 27 Kuzmanović \| 28 Baumann \| 29 Grippo \| 30 Smiljanić \| 32 Zanni \| Coach: Gross