Katarina Jukic (born 23 November 1989) is an Australian

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

player who played for Australian W-League team

Perth Glory Perth Glory Football Club is an Australian professional Association football, soccer club based in Perth, Perth, Western Australia. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under Professional sports league organi ...

, and for Murdoch University Melville in the Women's NPL. She is the sister of Western Knights player

Andrija Jukic Andrija Jukic (born 3 January 1987) is an Australian footballer who plays for Western Knights SC. Club career He tried out for the FOX8 reality TV show Football Superstar, but narrowly missed out on making the Perth Top 10, placing 11th, Aft ...

. In October 2020, Jukic gained attention for a goal scored while playing for Murdoch University Melville; she performed a

rabona In association football, the rabona is the technique of kicking the football where the kicking leg is crossed behind the back of the standing leg. There are several reasons why a player might opt to strike the ball this way: for example, a righ ...

to score a goal from outside of the

penalty area The penalty area or 18-yard box (also known less formally as the penalty box or simply box) is an area of an association football pitch. It is rectangular and extends 16.5m (18 yd) to each side of the goal and 16.5m (18 yd) in front of it. With ...

. Jukic departed Perth Glory ahead of the 2021–22 A-League Women season.

Honours

Personal honours In both 2017 and 2018, she was awarded the Women's Premier Best Female Player.

References

1989 births Living people Australian women's soccer players Sportswomen from Western Australia Perth Glory FC (A-League Women) players A-League Women players Australian people of Croatian descent Soccer players from Perth, Western Australia Women's association football midfielders Women's association football forwards {{Australia-women-footy-bio-stub