Jared Clark (born 21 January 1998) is a

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who plays as a

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for

Croydon Kings Croydon FC, formerly known as Croydon Kings, is an Australian semi-professional soccer club in Adelaide, South Australia. Croydon FC currently competes in the National Premier Leagues South Australia. They play home games at Polonia Reserve at C ...

. Born in Australia, he plays for the Vanuatu national team.

Club career

Clark is a youth product of the Australian clubs

Western Strikers Western Strikers are a soccer club from Adelaide, South Australia. Strikers play in the South Australian State League 2. Their home ground is at Carnegie Reserve. History The club was founded in 1980 under the name of VC Woodville City Junior S ...

Adelaide City Adelaide City Football Club is a soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia. The club was known historically as Juventus — the original name given to the club by its founders in Adelaide's Italian community. Adelaide City is one of Aust ...

and

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. He moved to Serbia with

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

, and after three years in the country returned to Australia with

Adelaide United Adelaide United Football Club is a professional Association Football, soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club participates in the A-League Men under North American professional sports league organization#Systems ar ...

. In 2019, he began his senior career with the semi-pro club

International career

Clark was born in Australia, and has Ni-Vanuatu descent through his mother. He was first called up to the preliminary

2020 OFC Nations Cup The 2020 OFC Nations Cup was originally to be the 11th edition of the OFC Nations Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Oceania organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) scheduled for 6 to 20 June 2020. T ...

squad for Vanuatu national team, but the tournament was cancelled due to

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. He debuted with Vanuatu in a friendly 3–0 loss to

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

on 10 March 2022.

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Jared Clark
at Oceania Football Center {{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Jared 1998 births Living people Vanuatuan men's footballers Vanuatu men's international footballers Australian men's soccer players Australian people of Vanuatuan descent Men's association football defenders Adelaide City FC players FK Vojvodina players Adelaide United FC players Croydon FC (Australia) players National Premier Leagues players FK Beograd (Australia) players Place of birth missing (living people)