Michael John "Mile" Jedinak (; ; born 3 August 1984) is an Australian former professional

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who played as a

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. He was until recently an assistant coach at

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. Jedinak was born and raised in

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, and played youth football with

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before starting his senior career at the club. Following loan spells at Varteks and South Coast United, Jedinak moved to

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in 2006. He subsequently had spells with Turkish clubs Gençlerbirliği and

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. In 2011, he was signed by English club

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, where he was appointed

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in 2012, helping the club achieve promotion to the

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in 2013. In 2016, he joined Aston Villa, where he played until 2019, helping them too achieve promotion back to the Premier League, before retiring and later transitioning into a coaching role there. Jedinak made his senior debut for the Australia national team in 2008. He went on to make 79 appearances for his country, serving as captain from 2014 until his international retirement in 2018. He represented Australia in the

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and

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s. He has also played at two

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s, including captaining Australia to victory on home soil in the 2015 edition.

Club career

Jedinak began playing when he was chosen to be part of the PDSSSC – a competition between Catholic schools within the

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Diocesan – where he played for St Agnes Catholic High, the same school compatriot

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attended. He also played for

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in the Jesuit Cup. As captain, Jedinak led the team to success, winning the competition. He began his career at

, and spent some time in the early years of his career at Croatian club Varteks (later renamed

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), making one competitive appearance for the Croatian side in a

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qualifier against Levadia Maardu. He was part of the Sydney United side that won the NSW Premier League title for 2006, playing a role in midfield that earned him a trial with the Mariners.

Central Coast Mariners

Jedinak was first added to the Mariners' squad in the week leading up to their 2006 Pre-Season Cup play-off against

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, and subsequently was called into the squad for the last ten games of the 2006–07, where he made eight appearances. Jedinak achieved success at the

, helping them to a Premiers' Plate in the 2007–08 season of the

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and scoring some spectacular goals along the way including a 25-metre free-kick in the 5–4 loss in Round 15 to

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. He was the club's second highest goalscorer in the 2008–09 season, with six goals.

Gençlerbirliği

On 25 December 2008, Jedinak signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with Turkish club Gençlerbirliği effective January 2009. On 24 January 2009, he made his competitive debut for Gençlerbirliği in their 3–1 victory over

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, playing the full match. Jedinak's first goal for Gençlerbirliği was scored in a 1–0 win over Fenerbahçe.

Crystal Palace

With one year remaining on his contract at Gençlerbirliği, Jedinak announced he was leaving the club in June 2011, with the hopes of finding a new club in a different country. A month later, he signed for

in England. Jedinak became a fans' favourite at

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during the 2012–13 season. In light of regular club captain

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's injury spell that season, Jedinak was handed the captain's armband first by manager

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and later by

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. Jedinak scored an 89th-minute winner on the final day of the 2012–13 season in a 3–2 win against

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at Selhurst Park to secure a playoff place for Palace, then captained Palace to win the playoffs and gain promotion to the top-flight

. Jedinak was voted Crystal Palace's 2012–13 player of the season. On 3 December 2013, Jedinak signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract which was set to expire in the summer of 2017. He scored his first Premier League goal from a

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against

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in April 2014, choosing not to celebrate the goal to pay respect for compatriot

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, who was being honoured that match following his death. Jedinak came close to playing every minute of Palace's 2013–14 Premier League season (a rarity for an outfield player, even captains), but injured himself in the second half of the 2–2 draw with

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; he was replaced by

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with just over 30 minutes left to play. On 28 October 2014, Jedinak was named the fifth-best player in Europe, the best midfielder in Europe and the best player in the Premier League after the first three months of the 2014–15 season by the website Oulala Fantasy Football based on Opta performance statistics, an accolade he brushed off as reported by Australian broadcaster

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. On 30 November, he was named as Asian International Footballer of the Year. Jedinak's superb freekick in a 3–1 win over

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in November 2014 was voted Goal of the Season at the 2015 Crystal Palace FC Awards night. Prior to the 2016–17 Premier League season, the club announced that Jedinak had resigned the captaincy and that

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would succeed him.

Aston Villa

New

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owner

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tweeted via his own Twitter account 'We'll officially announce one new signing at 5PM today' on 17 August 2016, in which it was later confirmed by the club at 5pm that Jedinak was Villa's latest acquisition and that he moved to the

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club on a three-year deal. He made his debut for Aston Villa on 27 August 2016 in a 3–1 loss to

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. On 23 December 2017, Jedinak scored his first Villa goal in a 2–2 home draw with

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. The following 12 May, he headed the only goal of a play-off semi-final win at

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. Two weeks later, in the final at Wembley, Villa lost 1–0 to Fulham, and Jedinak was substituted for the more attacking

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with 13 minutes remaining. On 14 May 2019 Jedinak came off the bench deep into extra time during Villa's playoff semi-final victory over Midlands rivals West Bromwich Albion. A specialist penalty taker with a 100% career record, Jedinak scored to put Aston Villa 2-0 ahead in the penalty shoot-out with Villa eventually running out 4-3 winners. He was an unused substitute two weeks later on 27 May as Aston Villa beat Derby County 2-1 at Wembley to secure a return to the Premier league. Jedinak was released by Aston Villa at the end of the 2018–19 season. In May 2020, Jedinak stated that he had not yet retired from professional football but, in July 2020, he announced his retirement from playing.

International career

Jedinak played at the

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in the

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, making appearances against the

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and the host nation. Jedinak made his full international debut in a friendly against

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in early 2008 and was an integral squad member of

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's "Socceroos" in the lead up to the

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. Jedinak was included in

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's 23-man squad for the 2010 World Cup and made his first appearance in Australia's opening match against

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on 13 June. This, however, would be Jedinak's only involvement in the competition. Jedinak scored his first international goal against

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. He went on to score his second international goal in the following match of the tournament against

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. In the absence of incumbent

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, Jedinak was handed the captaincy for Australia's 3–4 friendly loss to

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. On 21 May 2014, Socceroos coach

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appointed Jedinak as captain of the Australian national team to compete in the

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in Brazil, despite suffering an injury when playing in Crystal Palace's final match of the Premier League season. On 18 June, Jedinak scored from the penalty spot in Australia's 3–2 group stage defeat to the

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. Jedinak was named as captain of Australia for the

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on home soil. He started in their first group game against

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, scoring a penalty in the 62nd minute a 4–1 victory, but finished the game with an ankle injury. He returned to action in the knockout stages, and eventually lifted the trophy after the win over

in the final. After initially being named in Australia's squad for the

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, Jedinak was later ruled out due to a groin strain aggravated in Australia's World Cup qualifier win against Saudi Arabia. He was replaced in the squad by

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. On 15 November 2017, Jedinak scored a

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against Honduras to qualify Australia for the

. In May 2018 he was named in Australia’s 23-man

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for the

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in Russia. On 16 June, he scored a penalty during a 2–1 defeat against

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in Australia's opening match of the tournament, his second goal in a

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after scoring against the Netherlands in 2014. Jedinak scored another penalty against

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in the second group match on 21 June 2018, equalizing the match and helping Australia get a point. Jedinak retired from international football in October 2018. His 79 caps made him the ninth-most capped player for the country, and his 20 goals put him seventh amongst their all-time goalscorers.

Coaching career

In March 2020, Jedinak was appointed to a coaching role with Aston Villa's academy. On 30 March 2021, he was appointed as Loan Development Coach at Aston Villa. He was announced as an assistant coach at

in June 2023, after his former Socceroos manager

was appointed as head coach there. On 12 June 2025, it was announced he had departed his role of Assistant Coach at

Personal life

Jedinak is married to Natalie Peacock and they have four sons. As well as the name "Mile", a hypocorism of his given name, Michael, he is also colloquially known as "Jedi", shortened from "Jedinak". Due to that name's similarity to the group of ''

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'' characters known as

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, he is often told "May the force be with you" and to "Use the force".

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list Australia's goal tally first.''

Honours

Sydney United *

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: 2006 Central Coast Mariners *

Premiership: 2007–08 Crystal Palace *

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runner-up: 2015–16 Aston Villa *

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Australia *

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; runner-up

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

Individual * Mariners Medal: 2007–08 * PFA A-League Team of the Season: 2008–09 * Crystal Palace Player of the Year:

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* FFA Male footballer of the Year: 2013, 2014 * AFC Asian International Player of the Year:

* PFA Footballer of the Year: 2013–14 * AFC Opta All-time XI at the FIFA World Cup: 2020 *

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Asian Men's Team of All Time: 2021

References

External links

Gençlerbirliği profileCentral Coast Mariners profileFFA – Socceroo profileProfile
at TFF.org
Crystal Palace profile
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