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Goran Lozanovski (born 11 January 1974) is a former
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player and current manager holding the role of senior coach at Altona Magic.


Playing career


Club

Noted for his ability at taking set pieces, began his
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career with
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, before joining
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where he was a part of that club's championship winning team in the 1993/94 season. Later joining Collingwood Warriors, after that club's dissolution, Lozanovski signed with
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in 1997 under
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, where he would go on to win 2 grand finals in both the 1997–1998, and 1998–1999 seasons. In the
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Grand Final against Sydney United, Lozanovski was awarded the prestigious
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in South Melbourne's 3–2 victory. Lozanovski's success at South Melbourne paved the way for him to link up with fellow Australian
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at then- 2. Bundesliga club
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. However, his stay at the club would last only 12 games after being embroiled in the 'suitcase affair' corruption scandal in 2001, after financial irregularities arose following both Australian players transfers to the club. After Rudan was briefly arrested by German authorities over the scandal, charges were laid on the clubs treasurer Bernd Krings, who was convicted of financial fraud. Both Lozanovski and Rudan were eventually cleared, with both players departing the club shortly after. Returning home, Lozanovski had stints in
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with
Adelaide City Adelaide City Football Club is a semi-professional soccer club based in Oakden, a north-eastern suburb of Adelaide. The club was a founding member of the now-defunct National Soccer League (NSL) and currently competes in the National Premier ...
,
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, and Western Strikers during the dying years of the
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. He saw out his career in the Victorian State Leagues with
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and
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respectively, where he retired in 2008.


Managerial

Following his retirement, Lozanovski immediately took up a head coaching position at
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. He would go on to briefly coach both Hume City, and his 2013 Grand Final opponents,
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before joining Northcote City. During the 2012 season at Northcote, Lozanovski was promoted to head coach, following Peter Tsolakis' departure to
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. In 2013, Lozanovski took Northcote FC to their first ever
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Championship, defeating
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in which would be the last season of the Victorian Premier League system, before it was re-branded into the
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. Lozanovski decided to resign as Manager at Northcote following the 2015 season and joined
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as an Assistant Manager ahead of the 2016 season. In 2023, Lozanovski return to Altona Magic for second time as manager. Lozanovski said he was "excited and proud" to be back at the Magic. It is great to be back at my home club, and it felt exciting to be walking back through the front gate, he said. I have some unfinished business at Magic and I have already hit the ground running in preparation for 2024.


Honours


Player

Adelaide City *
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Championship 1993-1994 South Melbourne FC *
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Premiership: 1997-1998 *
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Championship: 1997-1998, 1998-1999 *
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:
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Australia *
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: runner-up
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...


Manager

Preston Lions FC *
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Premiership:
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*
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Championship:
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Northcote City FC, Northcote FC *
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Premiership:
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*
Victorian Premier League The Victorian Premier League (VPL) is an Australian soccer league based in Victoria that was founded in 2023 and administered by Football Victoria. It consists of two divisions that were named after the VPL's breakaway of the National Premier L ...
Championship:
2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...


References


External links


Oz Football profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lozanovski, Goran 1974 births Living people Australian people of Macedonian descent Australian men's soccer players Australian expatriate men's soccer players Australia men's international soccer players National Soccer League (Australia) players Adelaide City FC players Adelaide United FC players South Melbourne FC players Preston Lions FC players Preston Lions FC managers Hume City FC managers Australian Institute of Sport soccer players Bentleigh Greens SC managers Olympic soccer players for Australia Collingwood Warriors SC players Men's association football midfielders Australian soccer managers Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics 1998 OFC Nations Cup players Australia men's youth international soccer players Australian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Soccer players from Melbourne