Adrian Santrac

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Adrian Santrac (born 29 June 1958) is an Australian soccer coach and former player for Adelaide City and West Adelaide in the National Soccer League.

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Playing career

Santrac was born in Adelaide, South Australia, [1] on 29 June 1958. [2]

A midfielder, [2] Santrac played 170 games in the National Soccer League. [3] He played for West Adelaide SC and Adelaide City FC. [4]

Coaching career

When Santrac retired from playing, he was assistant coach of West Adelaide Sharks in the men's National Soccer League for four years, after which he became head coach of the West Adelaide Sharks for two years.

He was the assistant coach of the Australia U23 national team from 1998 and into the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. [4] He was named coach of the Australia women's national team in November 2001, [4] taking part in the 2003 Women's World Cup and 2004 Athens Olympic Games. In December 2004, he was replaced as the Australian women's national football coach by Tom Sermanni. [5]

He was also head coach of the Australian women's national under-19 team (Young Matildas) in November 2004, which competed in the U-19 Women's World Championship in Thailand. [6] The Young Matildas were sent home after losing their quarterfinal 0–2 against United States. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Football Federation South Australia 2011 Annual Report" (PDF). Football Federation South Australia. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  2. 1 2 Persoglia, Tony; Stock, Greg. "Santrac, Adrian". Ozfootball.net. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "Football Federation SA - Hall of Fame - 2011 Inductees". Football Federation South Australia. 2011. Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 "Santrac Appointed Head Coach of AIS/Australian Women's Soccer Program". Australian Sports Commission. 29 November 2001. Archived from the original on 29 March 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Sermanni returns to coach Matildas". ABC News (Australia) . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 9 December 2004. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  6. ↑ Associated Press (AP) (22 November 2004). "Matildas out of U19 world champs". news.ninemsn.com.au. Australian Associated Press (AAP). Archived from the original on 23 November 2004. Retrieved 9 November 2025– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship Thailand 2004 - USA 2:0 (0:0) Australia - Overview". FIFA.com. 21 November 2004. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
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