Mark Babic (born 24 April 1973) is a former Australian

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

played who played as a defender.

Early life

Babic was born in Australia to parents who had emigrated from Croatia.

Playing career

Club career

He played in the NSL between 1989 and 2003 with clubs

St George Saints St George FC, commonly called Saints or Budapest, is a semi-professional Australian soccer club based in the St George district in the south of Sydney. The club was founded by Hungarian immigrants in 1957 as Budapest Club and by 1965 was renam ...

, Sydney United and

Marconi Stallions Marconi Stallions Football Club is an Australian semi-professional association football club based in Fairfield, Sydney, New South Wales. The club has been crowned Australian champion four times. The Stallions are the soccer team of Club Marc ...

. With Sydney United he played 137 games for the club between 1989 and 1997 and played 102 games for Marconi between 1997 and 2003.

International career

Babic represented

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at all levels, including playing all six games for the Australian U-20 team at the

1991 FIFA World Youth Championship The 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship was the eighth staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, an international football competition organized by FIFA for men's youth national teams, and the eighth since it was established in 1977 as the FIF ...

in Portugal where Australia finished 4th and playing all 3 games for the Australian U-23's at the

1996 Summer Olympic games The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

. He also was capped 8 times at senior level for

between 1997 and 1998.

Honours

Australia *

OFC Nations Cup The OFC Men's Nations Cup, known as the OFC Nations Cup before the 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup, 2024 edition, is the primary association football competition contested by the senior list of men's national association football teams, men's natio ...

: 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 ...

References

1973 births Living people Australian people of Croatian descent Australian men's soccer players Australia men's international soccer players Olympic soccer players for Australia National Soccer League (Australia) players Marconi Stallions FC players Sydney United 58 FC players St George FC players Men's association football central defenders Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics 1998 OFC Nations Cup players Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-footy-defender-stub