Aleksandar Šušnjar ( sr-cyrl, Александар Шушњар, born 19 August 1995) is an Australian professional

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who plays as a defender for

Macarthur FC Macarthur Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in South Western Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in Australia's premier soccer competition, the A-League, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). ...

in the

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Club career

Born in

Perth Perth is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the Australian states and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth most populous city in Aust ...

, Šušnjar made his senior debut in Europe, playing with Lithuanian side Ekranas in

A Lyga The A Lyga is the top division of professional football in Lithuania. The A Lyga is an abbreviation of Aukščiausia lyga meaning Highest League. It is organized by Lithuanian Football Federation LFF ( lt, Lietuvos Futbolo Federacija). The Auk� ...

seasons

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and

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. Then he returned to Australia and played with Perth SC in the

2015 National Premier Leagues The 2015 National Premier Leagues was the third season of the Australian National Premier Leagues football competition. The league competition was played amongst eight separate divisions, divided by FFA state and territory member federations. T ...

. Next he signed with Lietava Jonava playing with them in the 2016 A Lyga. Romanian

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club

Gaz Metan Mediaș GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (russian: ГАЗ or Го́рьковский автомоби́льный заво́д, , Gorky Automobile Plant) is a Russian automotive manufacturer located in Nizhny Novgorod, formerly known as Gorky (Го� ...

signed him and Šušnjar played with them until the winter-break when he moved to Czech Republic and joined

FK Teplice FK Teplice is a Czech football club based in the city of Teplice. The club currently plays in the Czech First League. The club was founded after World War II in 1945. The club advanced to the Czechoslovak First League in just three years after ...

. A year later, another

Czech First League The Czech First League, known as the Fortuna liga for sponsorship reasons, is a Czech professional league for football clubs. At the top of the Czech football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Seasons typically r ...

signed him,

Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav (; german: Jungbunzlau) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 42,000 inhabitants. Mladá Boleslav is the second most populated city in the region and a major centre of the Czech automotive ind ...

. On 24 July 2018, he joined

MŠK Žilina MŠK Žilina () is a Slovak football club based in the town of Žilina, that is playing in the Slovak Superliga. Since the league inception in 1993, the club has won 7 titles and comes second in All-time table that makes them one of the mos ...

on a six-month loan deal. Susnjar then moved to

Busan IPark Busan IPark ( ko, 부산 아이파크) is a South Korean professional football club based in Busan that competes in K League 2, the second tier of the South Korean football pyramid. Its current home ground is Busan Gudeok Stadium. The club was ...

in South Korea's

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on 28 February 2019. In October 2020, Šušnjar joined

expansion club

International career

Šušnjar initially represented

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hung ...

, having made one appearance in 2011 for the Serbian U-17 side. However, by January 2018, he already called the attention of the Australian FA and made a debut for the Australian U23 team. He received his first senior call up when he was selected in Bert van Marwijk's first ''Socceroos'' squad for the March 2018 friendlies. He made the debut for the Australian national team in a friendly game against

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played on 23 March 2018.

Personal life

In addition to his native English, Šušnjar can also speak

Serbian Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also

* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

Lithuanian Lithuanian may refer to: * Lithuanians * Lithuanian language * The country of Lithuania * Grand Duchy of Lithuania * Culture of Lithuania * Lithuanian cuisine * Lithuanian Jews as often called "Lithuanians" (''Lita'im'' or ''Litvaks'') by other Jew ...

, Czech and can get by in

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language *** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditiona ...

. He has been often confused with same named Serbian footballer, who previously played with Donji Srem in the

Serbian First League The Serbian First League ( sr, Прва лига Србије / Prva liga Srbije), referred to as the Mozzart Bet First League ( sr, Моцарт Бет Прва лига / Mozzart Bet Prva liga) for sponsorship reasons, is the name for the second ...

, along with older brother, Milan.

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* * * * Living people 1995 births Soccer players from Perth, Western Australia Australian soccer players Australia international soccer players Australia youth international soccer players Australian expatriate sportspeople in South Korea Serbian footballers Serbia youth international footballers Australian people of Serbian descent Expatriate footballers in Romania Expatriate footballers in Lithuania Expatriate footballers in the Czech Republic Expatriate footballers in Slovakia Expatriate footballers in South Korea FK Ekranas players FK Jonava players CS Gaz Metan Mediaș players FK Teplice players FK Mladá Boleslav players MŠK Žilina players Busan IPark players Macarthur FC players A Lyga players Liga I players Czech First League players Slovak Super Liga players K League 2 players Association football defenders Australian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Australian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia Australian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic Australian expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania Australian expatriate soccer players {{Serbia-footy-defender-stub