Sasa Ognenovski
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Ognenovski in 2012 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Sasa Ognenovski | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 3 April 1979 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Centre-back | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–2000 | Preston Lions | 73 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2002 | Melbourne Knights | 46 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Panachaiki | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Preston Lions | 36 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues | 32 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Queensland Roar | 35 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Adelaide United | 20 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | 80 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Umm Salal | 29 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Sydney FC | 15 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Preston Lions | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Preston Lions | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 377 | (26) | |||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Australia | 22 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Dandenong City (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Dandenong City | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Preston Lions (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20 August 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 9 December 2013 | |||||||||||||||||
Sasa Ognenovski (Macedonian: Саша Огненовски, romanized: Saša Ognenovski; born 3 April 1979) is an Australian former soccer player who played as a centre-back for the Australia national team. In 2010, he was named the Asian Footballer of the Year by Asian Football Confederation after helping K League club Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma win the AFC Champions League. This achievement led him to be included in the Australian squad for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup. Alongside Robert Cornthwaite and Eli Babalj, Ognenovski is the joint third tallest soccer player to have played for the Australia national team at 1.95 m, behind 2.02-m-tall Zeljko Kalac and 1.98-m-tall Harry Souttar.