Eddie Krncevic
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Eduvard "Eddie" Krncevic Template:Post-nominals (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell;[1] Template:Langx; born 14 August 1960) is an Australian retired football player and manager who played as a forward.
Club career
After playing his first four years of professional football in Australia, Krncevic moved to the land of his parents in 1981, joining Croatian side NK Dinamo Zagreb, where he had relative individual success, besides helping the side win one league and one cup.
Krnčević then played four months in the German second division with MSV Duisburg, after which he embarked on his most successful spell, ten and a half years in Belgium – with one season in France with FC Mulhouse in between – where he represented Cercle Brugge KSV, Royal Charleroi, R.S.C. Anderlecht, R.F.C. de Liège and K.S.C. Eendracht Aalst; he became the first Australian-born player to be crowned top scorer in a European league.
Even though silverware was hard to come even at Anderlecht, in 1988–89 Krnčević was crowned the league's top scorer at 23 goals, and helped the capital side to the domestic cup – in that competition, he scored in all three finals he won, the first being with Cercle.
In 1996, aged 36, Krncevic returned to Australia and played one final season with the Gippsland Falcons.[2] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he had a coaching career, with all the clubs hailing from his homeland, in the National Soccer League. Internationally, he opted to represent his birth country, scoring every other match in 35 caps, and helping the country to win the 1980 OFC Nations Cup.
International career
Krncevic was captain of the Australia team that won the 1980 Oceania Cup, of which only one match, an 11–2 defeat of Papua New Guinea, counted as a full international match.[3][4]
Honours
Essendon Croatia
- Victorian Champions: 1978
- Victorian State League Cup: 1978
- Ampol Cup: 1977, 1978
- Armstrong Cup: 1977
Marconi
Dinamo Zagreb
Cercle Brugge
- Belgian Cup: 1984–85; runner-up 1985–86
Anderlecht
- Belgian League: 1986–87
- Belgian Cup: 1987–88, 1988–89
- Belgian Super Cup: 1987
Australia
Individual
- Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) – 2021[5]
- FFA Hall of Champions Inductee – 2000
- Belgian League: Top scorer 1988–89
- NSL: Papasavas Medal (U-21) 1979
References
External links
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- 1960 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Geelong
- Soccer players from Victoria (state)
- Australian people of Croatian descent
- Men's association football forwards
- Australian men's soccer players
- National Soccer League (Australia) players
- Marconi Stallions FC players
- Sydney United 58 FC players
- Melbourne Knights FC players
- Yugoslav First League players
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb players
- 2. Bundesliga players
- MSV Duisburg players
- Belgian Pro League players
- Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players
- R.S.C. Anderlecht players
- RFC Liège players
- Royal Charleroi S.C. players
- S.C. Eendracht Aalst players
- Ligue 1 players
- FC Mulhouse players
- Australia men's international soccer players
- Australian soccer managers
- South Melbourne FC managers
- Falcons 2000 SC players
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- 1980 Oceania Cup players
- OFC Nations Cup–winning players
- Australian expatriate men's soccer players
- Expatriate men's footballers in West Germany
- Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
- Expatriate men's footballers in Yugoslavia
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in Yugoslavia
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in France
- National Soccer League (Australia) managers
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
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