Kevin Vincent Muscat (born 7 August 1973) is an Australian former
association football
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player and the current manager of
Yokohama F. Marinos
is a Japanese professional football club based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club competes in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country.
Having won the J-League title four times an ...
. As a player, he represented the
Australia national team
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at international level winning 46 caps and scoring 10 goals between 1994 and 2006.
After beginning his professional career in the
Australian National Soccer League with
Sunshine George Cross
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George Cr ...
in 1989, Muscat played eight seasons in the United Kingdom with
Crystal Palace,
Wolverhampton Wanderers
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,
Rangers and
Millwall
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. He returned to Australia in 2005 for the first time since leaving South Melbourne in 1996 to captain Melbourne Victory in the
inaugural season of the A-league.
Muscat retired from professional football in March 2011 after Melbourne Victory's
2011 AFC Champions League campaign, citing his growing fr