"I was a huge AC Milan fan. I had an agreed deal to leave Newcastle and play with Fulham for two years. His priority was to be captain -- more because of his other activities off the pitch rather than on the pitch stuff.
After a nine-year spell in English football with Leeds United, Middlesbrough and Newcastle United, legendary Australian player Mark Viduka finally hung up his boots at the age of 34 in 2009.. A prolific scorer at every Premier League club he played for, Viduka was most effective during his time at Elland Road scoring 59 goals in 130 appearances.
(2:55)ZAGREB, Croatia -- Twenty minutes out of Croatia's capital, nestled upon a hill called Sestine, sits a cafe called Non Plus Ultra, or "No Higher Point. "But I'd have to say kicking the ball in the family backyard with my dad will always be my greatest football memory. Lots of people take their coffee seriously these days!”Not one for the click-baiters – Celtic in the 1930s – And they gave us James McGrory and Jack Connor…Help raise money for Celtic Youth Development by joining the £1 weekly lottery and you could win up to £25,000 – just click on any one of the photographs below to join.
"I think he has.
I try and make the best coffee as I can, though. Burned out mentally. "I had a problem with [Kewell's agent] Bernie Mandic.
"You make a bad coffee, you throw it in the bin.
It was an offer I couldn't refuse.
Viduka wishes nothing but the best for the current Socceroos boss. After he was born in Melbourne to a Ukrainian-Croat mother and a Croatian father, it didn't take long before football became his sporting epicentre. About three songs in, he says, 'I want to dedicate this next one to my good friend Mark, who is in Manchester today to make a big decision. "I did my badges in the U.K., and the first thing that [course] said is you need to have your own philosophy, the way you want to play. Because my problem was that my generation of players that I grew up with were a different breed to the new generation, and to be the honest, I wasn't a big fan of the new generation of players. Croatian people are extreme people. "When I came back to Australia, I wasn't looking at getting out of football," he says. He had backstage passes, and I'd get the chance to meet the man for myself. No one cares unless you win the league. The smell of coffee fills the air as businessmen, politicians and mother's groups sit rugged up, chatting inside, underneath the heaters or braving it in the frosty conditions.Behind the counter, a barista has a familiar look.
"Leave he did, but the experience left him on the verge of a mental break down, which very nearly saw him give up football for good.Joining Scottish giants Celtic for a reputed fee of £3.5 million would have been the highlight of a career to some, but just four days after arriving in Glasgow in 1998, Viduka shocked the Hoops faithful by fleeing home to Australia, claiming that he was too stressed to focus on football. I try and make the best coffee as I can, though.
"Guus came to me, and he said, 'Look, I'd like you to be captain [permanently],'" Viduka says. "I can't describe it," Viduka says. '"If Croatia meant so much to Viduka, then why didn't he feel the need to represent the national team?
However, the former Celtic and Leeds striker has spoken to ESPN, giving his first interview since leaving the game ten years ago..
Beloved Australian icon Mark Viduka has let rip at former teammates in a candid interview more than a decade after he retired..
"The club was a symbol of the struggle of free Croatia -- free from communism, free from Yugoslavia -- and that, for me, meant everything," he says.
Or the luck of penalties? '"I'm thinking: 'S---, please don't say any more!' After that, only penalties separated Australia and qualifying for their first World Cup in 32 years.With Viduka captain in the absence of an injured Craig Moore, the script seemed written when he stepped up to the penalty spot with the Socceroos 3-2 up in the shootout.
The next day, they want to burn you at the stake. The word "reclusive" is often associated with the big man. "It's like when I had the chance to keep playing.
That was the main reason I stopped playing for the national team. "I think Lucas Neill came to that Asian Cup at that stage not in a good state of mind because of the fact that Graham Arnold had offered him the captaincy because he wasn't sure I was coming to the Asian Cup or not. Everyone assumes scoring four goals against Liverpool would be my highlight or captaining Australia at a World Cup," he says.
"Once I was at the Asian Cup, either [Arnold] wasn't brave enough to tell me that I wasn't captain anymore, and I felt Lucas Neill was sulking the whole Asian Cup through the preparations for it and through the Asian Cup, and it affected other players. Mark Viduka was born in Ireland on October 9, 1975.Australian forward who captained the national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. “I think Lucas Neill at that stage came to that Asian Cup not in a good state of mind because of the fact that Graham Arnold had offered him the captaincy because he wasn’t sure whether I was going to come to the Asian Cup or not,” Viduka told ESPN.“Then once I was at the Asian Cup, either (Arnold) wasn’t brave enough to tell me that I wasn’t captain anymore or whatever, and I felt that Lucas Neill was sulking that whole Asian Cup — through the pre-season, through the preparations for it and through the Asian Cup, and it affected other players. The Celtic Star is committed to bringing you the best coverage of Celtic, past, present and future.
Viduka broke a 22-year silence on the matter, telling the channel why he fled to Australia before making his Celtic debut: “I was burnt out mentally. We've lost our identity as a football nation," he says. As we enter, Elton swings around on a swivel chair and says, 'Mark Viduka, you're from Melbourne.
It was Viduka's flick that set up the Socceroos' crucial lone goal in front of a packed second-leg crowd at the Sydney Olympic Stadium (now known as ANZ Stadium). Thirteen years on, the former Socceroos skipper shares the reality of dissent and bitterness that plagued Australia's disastrous Asian Cup debut. "They don't want to get older players involved who actually have that experience, who have been in those situations in front of 100,000 people. We all felt the same thing.
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