Andrija Jukic (born 3 January 1987) is an Australian
footballer
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who plays for
Western Knights SC
Western Knights Soccer Club is an Australian soccer club currently playing in the Football West State League Division 1 in Perth, Western Australia. Its home ground is Nash Field, in the Town of Mosman Park. Since 2018, the club expanded its ...
.
Club career
He tried out for the
FOX8 reality TV show
Football Superstar
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, but narrowly missed out on making the
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
Top 10, placing 11th, After this Jukic signed for his home town club Perth Glory's 2008/09 Youth League team, where he was a standout. He made his senior debut for
Perth Glory as a substitute on 21 December 2008 against
Sydney FC.
On 26 February 2009, Jukic signed a two-year deal with Perth Glory. Andrija scored his first goal in the
A-League
A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...
and for his club against
Central Coast Mariners
Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian professional association football, soccer club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League, A-League Men, under ...
on 31 January 2010.
[http://www.a-league.com.au/Scoreboard_HAL/0000420168/scoreboard.html] Andrija was a part of the
Perth Glory team that made finals in the A-League for the first time in the club's history during the 2009/10 season.
Honours
Personal honours
*
National Youth League Top Scorer:
2008–2009 with
Perth Glory – 6 goals
See also
* He is the brother of Queen's Park FC striker
Katarina Jukic.
References
External links
Perth Glory profile
A-League Men players
Australian soccer players
Living people
Perth Glory FC players
NK Junak Sinj players
Expatriate footballers in Indonesia
People educated at Corpus Christi College, Perth
1987 births
Association football midfielders
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