Adem Poric

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Adem Poric
Personal information
Date of birth (1973-04-22) 22 April 1973 (age 50)
Place of birth London, England
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Gold Coast Knights SC
(CEO / Head coach)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1992–1993 St George Saints ? (?)
1993–1998 Sheffield Wednesday 13 (0)
1997Southend United (loan) 7 (0)
1998Rotherham United (loan) 4 (0)
1998 Notts County 5 (0)
1998–1999 Sydney Olympic 6 (1)
1999 Northern Spirit FC 2 (0)
2000–2002 City of Gold Coast ? (?)
International career
1990 Australia U20 2 (0)
Managerial career
2021– Gold Coast Knights SC
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Adem Poric (born 22 April 1973) is a soccer coach and former professional player, who is the chief executive and the head coach of Gold Coast Knights SC, as well as the president of youth academy side Magic United.

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As a player, he was a midfielder from 1992 to 2002 and most notably played in the Premier League for Sheffield Wednesday. He also spent time in England playing in the Football League with Southend United, Rotherham United and Notts County as well as Australian sides St George Saints, Sydney Olympic, Northern Spirit FC and City of Gold Coast. Born in England, he was capped twice by Australia U20.

Club career

During the 1991–92 season he had an unsuccessful trial at Arsenal, playing in three reserve team games. Sheffield Wednesday signed Poric for £60,000 from St George Saints on 1 October 1993. He found it difficult to break into the first team at Hillsborough and loan spells at Southend United and Rotherham United followed. He made just 13 league appearances in two seasons for the Owls, then a Premier League side, under Trevor Francis.

He eventually joined Notts County on a free transfer on 27 March 1998. He had not appeared in a competitive game for Sheffield Wednesday for almost three years by this stage, his last appearance coming as a substitute against Manchester United in a 1–0 defeat at Old Trafford in the league on 7 May 1995.

International career

He represented Australia at youth level. [1]

Coaching career

Poric has returned to Australia where he is involved in running the Total Football Academy. The Academy has developed links to Sheffield Wednesday [2] with the first of an anticipated influx of academy players coming to Hillsborough in September 2008.

He is the president of Magic United. [3] He is now also the Head Coach and CEO of Gold Coast Knights SC. [4]

Personal life

Poric was born in London, England to Australian parents of Bosnian heritage.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. Young Socceroo Matches for 1990
  2. Sheffield Wednesday news Archived 24 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Adem Poric | Magic United".
  4. "About".