Oliver Bozanic
Personal information
Full name	Oliver John Justin Bunting Bozanic
Date of birth	8 January 1989 (1989-01-08) (age 20)
Place of birth	Sydney, Australia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Left Winger
Club information
Current club	Cheltenham Town (on loan from Reading)
Number	16
Youth career
2004–2005 2005–2006 2006–2007 2007	Avoca FC Parramatta Eagles Blacktown City Demons NSWIS Central Coast Mariners Reading
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2007– 2009 2009–	Reading → Woking (loan) → Cheltenham Town (loan)	000 00(0) 018 00(2) 004 00(0)
National team2
2006–2009	Australia U-17 Australia U-20	017 00(0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:03, 18 August 2009 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 21:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Oliver Bozanic (born 8 January 1989) is an Australian footballer, of Croatian background, who attended St. Edward's College, East Gosford and currently plays for Cheltenham Town on loan from Reading. He is a left sided attacking midfielder. He is the son of former Socceroo Vic Bozanic.

Contents 1 Club career 2 International career 3 Honours 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Club career

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Bozanic started his professional career with Australian A-League side Central Coast Mariners, where he was one of the locals drafted into the Mariners squad by team manager Lawrie McKinna, during the 2006–07 Pre-Season Cup as cover for a host of long-term injuries. Despite several appearances in the tournament, and later joined Reading on a two and a half year contract on 29 January 2007. Bozanic played for both the under 18s and reserves at Reading during his first 18 months at the club, and was a crucial part of the side that won the Reserve League title in the 2006-07 season. On 23 January 2009, he signed for Woking on loan for one month.

During pre-season of 2009-2010 Bozanic joined Cheltenham Town on loan^[1] and made his first team debut in Cheltenham's 2-1 home win against Grimsby Town on 8 August 2009.^[2]

[edit] International career

Bozanic is a member of the Australian 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup development squad, which competed in and won a four-team tournament in Japan against the Under-20 teams of Hungary and Japan in 2006. He was a member of all the lead-up squads prior for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, but missed out on his place at the tournament due to injury.

He received his first full international call up in August 2009 for a friendly international against the Republic of Ireland.^[3]

[edit] Honours

With Australia:

• International Cor Groenewegen Tournament (U-20): 2009

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Oliver Bozanic profile at readingfc.co.uk
• OzFootball profile
• FFA - Young Socceroo profile
• Oliver Bozanic career stats at Soccerbase

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Persondata
NAME	Bozanic, Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	8 January 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sydney
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH