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Ante Covic

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    • Date Of Birth: 19/06/75
    Nation: Australia
    Birthplace: Sydney, Australia
    Squad Number: 1
    Position: Goalkeeper
    Joined Wanderers: 01/07/12
    Contract Details: 1 year initial contract. Signed 1 year extension on 29th December 2012. Signed 1 year extension on 21st December 2013.
    Contract Finish: 2014/15
    Previous Club: Melbourne Victory
    Wanderers Debut: 6th October 2012 vs Central Coast Mariners
    A-League Appearances: 78
    A-League Goals: 0
    ACL Appearances: 17
    ACL Goals: 0
    FFA Cup Appearances: 1
    FFA Cup Goals: 0
    Club World Cup Appearances: 1
    Club World Cup Goals: 0
    Total Appearances: 97
    Total Goals: 0
    Yearly Appearances & Goals: 2012/13: 29 (0), 2013/14: 34 (0), 2014/15 : 34 (0)
    Individual Awards: A-League Goalkeeper Of The Year (2012/13), PFA Team Of The Year (2012/13), A-League All Star (2012/13, Asian Champions League Player of the Tournament (2013/14), Asian Champions League Dream Team (2013/14).
    Team Honours: A-League Premiership Winner (2012/13), Asian Champions League Winner (2014).
    Highlight: Covic played every minute of every Wanderers A-League match in the 2012/13 season, including two finals matches.
    Highlight: When Nikolai Topor-Stanely missed the Round 15 match against Adelaide United on the 19th of January 2014, Covic became the last Wanderer to have played in every match since the first match against the Central Coast Mariners.
    Highlight: Kept a clean sheet in the Wanderers 1-0 win in the first leg of the AFC Champions League final against Al Hilal on 25 October 2014. He then kept another clean sheet in the second leg to see the Wanderers confirmed as Champions, being named Player of the Tournament as well.
    Description: Ante Covic is a veteran goalkeeper who joined the club after being released from Melbourne Victory despite winning their player of the season award. He is known for his ferocious command of his area and defensive unit and his ability to stop penalty kicks.
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Alexander

Alexander

Posted

Rooty Hill?

 

Rooty Hill?

 

Is there a Bavarian there?

 

I don't think so!

 

FFS Just buy the land/carpark behind the the Parra Bavarian and build a Wanderers club annex there..et voila, in house steins & pork knuckles, 5 mins to the ground & problem solved.

Vote Manfred for CEO

Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Posted

 

 

That carpark I think is penciled in for a 90 story apartment tower.

Surely they could spare the ground floor for the Wanderers club!?
Nah top floor so when the stadium sells out people can watch the match from the club. Also stadium to tower call to arms, WDWSF etc. Plus pyro would look awesome up there and give the police helicopter something to do.
Davo I tips me lid! I need to think bigger!

 

But in my defense I was thinking it would be quicker to get to the stadium from the ground floor.

DCWSW

DCWSW

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COVIC ADAMANT HE'S READY TO GO AGAIN WITH WANDERERS
 

 

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    Ante Covic in action for Western Sydney Wanderers. (AAP)
 
 
 
Ante Covic is likely to find out this week whether the Western Sydney Wanderers club shares his view that he has at least another A-League season in him.
By 
Greg Prichard
 
10 MAY 2015 - 6:51 PM  UPDATED 59 MINS AGO
 

Goalkeeper Covic won the award as most valuable player in the AFC Champions League when Wanderers created history by becoming the first Australian team to win the tournament last November, but he is yet to be offered a new contract by the club.

There has been speculation Covic may not get a new deal and that Western Sydney is interested in signing Perth Glory goalkeeper Danny Vukovic if he can get a release from his contract.

Wanderers announced on Friday that Tony Popovic had re-signed as coach. In the wake of that announcement, Popovic said he would be conducting interviews with players and that "next week all the players will know where they stand".

 

 
 
 
 
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Wanderers target marquee man as Popovic thinks big
Coach Tony Popovic is committed to taking Western Sydney back to the summit and is being handed a blank cheque to find a big-name marquee who can help get it there.
 
 
 
 
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Popovic extends Wanderers stay with new three-year deal
Coach Tony Popovic signed a new deal with Western Sydney Wanderers, which will keep him at the A-League club until the end of the 2017-2018 season, and vowed to take the club back to the top.

 

Covic turns 40 next month and is adamant he has at least another season in the A-League left in him. He toldThe World Game he wanted to stay at the Wanderers and wasn't keen to consider other possibilities.

"I want to play again, definitely, that hasn't changed," Covic said. "I think that over the three years of the Wanderers I've been an integral part of the club. I'm not ready to give it away - there's more to offer in this set of legs. I'd like to stay at the Wanderers.

"The club is aware I want to play again next season. The club has always known that. The coaching staff knows that, there's no sort of question mark about whether I want to play or not.

"I don't want to play for anyone else but the Wanderers in the A-League. It's the club I feel I've come home to, the club I've been at since day one and won a few titles with now and the club I enjoy.

"I don't even want to think about playing somewhere else because I want to be staying at the Wanderers and playing for them, and staying there probably post-career if I want to stay in football, which I do. There's a lot of incentive to stay at the Wanderers.

"I've enjoyed my time here, we've been successful. I've busted my chops at this club for a reason - because I've enjoyed the ride from day one."

Covic said he wasn't worried about having to wait to find out his future. He said it was sometimes an occupational hazard for footballers.

Asked if he was prepared to seek a contract with another A-League club, if there was no deal on offer from Wanderers, Covic replied: "The reality is that whatever happens, I'll have to deal with it.

"I've had a long enough career to know there can be delays, but you always want your future assured. You want to know what's happening, without question, and that plays on every player's mind.

"I'm not ready to stop, so I have to think about myself going forward and my options and the possibilities that could happen.

"I'd be prepared to look at other options, not that I'd be happy if I wasn't offered something at Western Sydney.

"The business side of football these days doesn't allow you to pick and choose all the time. I'll exhaust everything to play for the Wanderers, but at the end of the day I'm not ready to give up football.

"The way it's been going at the Wanderers, I've been having one-year deals there but I've never said that the one-year deal is going to be my final year.

"As long as I'm keen to play and playing at a good level and the coaching staff and everyone is happy with me, there's no reason I can't keep playing.

"All I can do at the moment is wait."

Wanderers had easily the most congested season in the history of A-League clubs, squeezing in games at the FIFA Club World Cup and Champions League alongside the normal A-League schedule.

Inevitably, the team struggled in the A-League and after making the grand final in its first two years it finished ninth this season.

Wanderers narrowly failed to advance from the group stage in this year's ACL, but Covic said last week's 2-0 win over Chinese powerhouse Guangzhou Evergrande on the road showed what the team was still capable of when it had a reasonable amount of time to prepare for games.

"We had 10 days off before the game in China and we were a lot fresher, moving a lot better," he said. "The energy we had in the first two years of the club - closing down play, the resilience - you could see that's still there.

"But when you play every third day and you're in constant recovery mode, it's hard to keep yourself going and in physically peak condition. Everyone's looking forward to a break now, so we can freshen up for next season."

hawks2767

hawks2767

Posted

Is he actually going anywhere or staying with Ron to help train keepers ?

Prydzopolis

Prydzopolis

Posted

;(

 

The worse part for me is that he made all the right noises that he wanted to play on next year so thought it was just a formality! Who knows what went on behind the scenes? Maybe Ron wanted to call it a day? Maybe Popa convinced him to go out on top? I'd loved to have been a fly on a wall at that meeting!

marron

marron

Posted

My hunch based on nothing

This time last year, Covic is thinking he'll hang em up after this season. Possibly coach with Corry. Popa knows this.

Then ante hits the form of his life.

Starts thinking, maybe I got another year at least.

But popa already has his plan.

Nothing changes popa's plan.

plus ante has the first dip in form in his time at wsw. Seals the deal for popa. "Sorry ante. You knew the plan. Time to go, either way."

StringerBellend

StringerBellend

Posted

Five Covic Moments

 

1 Penalty Save v Guangzhou in the quarter final

2 Save in the ACL a final 2nd leg when the ball was behind him

3 Keeping us ahead in the first leg after Juric scored, by making a bunch of mad saved

4 Penalty save mariners season 1

5 The punching the ground gif

dmixtaaa

dmixtaaa

Posted

I don't really care for other players but I firmly believe the club owes it to us members, to say farewell to Ante with a massive send off in front of  packed out stadium at Wanderland next season. 
 
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Alexander

Alexander

Posted (edited)

Could've put this in the ACL thread but as the video is almost 50% Ante, and it quite rightly should be considered AC's moment of apotheosis, gonna put it here:

 

As good as it was to see that again, I'd only just forgotten that Covic was leaving. Thanks a lot Manfred ;) Edited by Alexander
Neverbloom

Neverbloom

Posted

as much as i criticised him i will miss him, he was in beast mode for most of his time with the wanderers that beast mode has officially been renamed Covic mode

Erebus

Erebus

Posted

Five Covic Moments

 

1 Penalty Save v Guangzhou in the quarter final

2 Save in the ACL a final 2nd leg when the ball was behind him

3 Keeping us ahead in the first leg after Juric scored, by making a bunch of mad saved

4 Penalty save mariners season 1

5 The punching the ground gif

6 that cheesy grin to the Perth fans in Season 1 when he was time wasting (where we were 1 man down for the majority of the match and he kept us in it with some crazy saves)

7 blowing kisses to Berisha "Mwah Mwah I love you Berisha, f#ck off"

Alexander

Alexander

Posted

In honour of Ante I hereby request the 'he saves to the left, he saves to the right' chant be retired.

What about keeping it but only using his name? We could belt it out occasionally in honour of the great man. I don't want him to be forgotten by young kids who were too young to remember him. When it gets belted it out on the odd occasion it'll cause our hearts race as we remember 'the save'

luisenrique

luisenrique

Posted

The form he was in towards the back end of last season until the ACL final was just ridiculous.  Was immensely useful to have an experienced head like him in goal when our club started as well.

 

Legend.

ManfredSchaefer

ManfredSchaefer

Posted

There are two spaces already put aside in the monastery of the Sanctified Order or Red & Black for relics of our holy ones. One is for the Blessed Back Heel of St Dino. The other is for the Miraculous Penalty Saving Elbow of St Ante.

 

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hawks2767

hawks2767

Posted

Round 1 if he comes back and stands up with the capo/s to lead a chant or 2 I believe manly tears will be shed.

dmixtaaa

dmixtaaa

Posted

Round 1 if he comes back and stands up with the capo/s to lead a chant or 2 I believe manly tears will be shed.

Even I will stand in the RBB for this.... :ninja:

andypk

andypk

Posted

In honour of Ante I hereby request the 'he saves to the left, he saves to the right' chant be retired.

Good Idea but I'd prefer to go the other way and sing it in future seasons as a mark of respect and cementing Ante's 'Legend Status'

West13

West13

Posted

 

 

In honour of Ante I hereby request the 'he saves to the left, he saves to the right' chant be retired.

Good Idea but I'd prefer to go the other way and sing it in future seasons as a mark of respect and cementing Ante's 'Legend Status'

Or sing it if new keeper has a howler.

Taurus

Taurus

Posted

 

 

In honour of Ante I hereby request the 'he saves to the left, he saves to the right' chant be retired.

Good Idea but I'd prefer to go the other way and sing it in future seasons as a mark of respect and cementing Ante's 'Legend Status'

Or sing it if new keeper has a howler.

 

 

That'll do his confidence a lot of good...not!!!


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