John Ive Sulentic (born 24 December 1979) is a Canadian former professional
soccer
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player who played as a
midfielder and is the technical director for the Port Moody Soccer Club.
Early life
Sulentic attended
Matthew McNair Secondary School
Matthew McNair Secondary School is a public high school in Richmond, British Columbia and is part of School District 38 Richmond.
Matthew McNair is one of the semester-style schools in Richmond. Its feeder schools include Hamilton Elementary, Walt ...
and
Edwardsville High School.
Club career
Sulentic began his professional career in 1999 with
Vancouver Whitecaps. He broke the
USL
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assist record in his rookie year, with 19 helpers. In 2001, he became Vancouver's all-time assist leader in the post CSL era. In 2002 Sulentic had two trials with
Dinamo Zagreb but could not find a place. The
Whitecaps offered him a contract in 2005 to play in the USL, but he wanted more money so he moved to German third league side
St. Pauli in 2005. In one year in
Hamburg he played 24 games and scored two goals.
He was later re-signed by Vancouver but did not play a competitive match. In December 2007 he left
Vancouver Whitecaps.
International career
Sulentic represented Canada at the 1998 CONCACAF U-19 Qualification Tournament (Canada did not qualify for the
1999 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Nigeria between 3 and 24 April 1999. This was the 12th edition of the tournament.
Qualification
The following 24 teams qualified for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.
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). He was 24 years old when he won his first cap with Canada's senior team on 18 January 2004 in
Bridgetown, a 1:0 win over
Barbados and he represented Canada at the 2000 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualification Tournament.
His final international was a November 2005 friendly match against
Luxembourg.
Coaching career
In 2009, Sulentic began his coaching career training the Under-12 Boys of
Mountain WFC besides working as Head Coach at Euro Pro Football Academy. He later became the Technical Director at
Port Moody Soccer Club.
Personal life
His older brother Petar is a semi-professional soccer player, who played for Croatia SC as well.
Croatia SC "A" (Croatia SC Vancouver)
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References
External links
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1979 births
Living people
Soccer players from Vancouver
Canadian people of Croatian descent
Canadian men's soccer players
Canadian expatriate men's soccer players
Canada men's international soccer players
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Vancouver Whitecaps (1986–2010) players
FC St. Pauli players
USL First Division players
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Canada men's youth international soccer players
Canada men's under-23 international soccer players
Men's association football midfielders