Steven Horvat (born 14 March 1971) is an Australian former professional

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player.

Club career

A graduate of the

Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ...

, Horvat began his career with Melbourne Croatia. He later played with Sunshine George Cross, North Geelong Warriors, the

Melbourne Knights Melbourne Knights Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sunshine North, Melbourne. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, the second-tier of the Australian soccer league ...

(for whom he won the Joe Marston Medal), Hajduk Split, Crystal Palace (although he didn't make a league appearance) and Carlton. He retired in March 2003 at the age of 32. Horvat made a total of 96 appearances in the

National Soccer League The National Soccer League (NSL) was the top-level soccer league in Australia, run by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association. The NSL, the A-League's predecessor, spanned 28 seasons from its inception in 1977 until its ...

International career

Horvat was a regular member of the Australian national side, making 32 appearances between 1994 and 2002, and participated in a number of international competitions, including the 1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship,

1996 Summer Olympics 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, ...

1997 FIFA Confederations Cup The 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup was the first FIFA Confederations Cup, Confederations Cup to be organized by FIFA. The tournament had previously been played in 1992 King Fahd Cup, 1992 and 1995 King Fahd Cup, 1995 as the King Fahd Cup. This editi ...

, 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2002 OFC Nations Cup. Horvat also played in the game with highest scoreline in an international football match, when Australia beat

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31–0.

Personal life

Horvat has a daughter, Chantel, who plays basketball at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

Honours

Australia *

FIFA Confederations Cup The FIFA Confederations Cup was an international association football tournament for men's national teams, held every four years by FIFA. It was contested by the holders of each of the six continental championships ( AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBO ...

: runner-up,

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

; 3rd place,

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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 ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

; runner-up, 2002 OFC Nations Cup * AFC–OFC Challenge Cup: runner-up

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Horvat, Steve 1971 births Living people Men's association football defenders Australian men's soccer players Australian expatriate men's soccer players Australia men's international soccer players Australian expatriate sportspeople in England Australian Institute of Sport soccer players Australian people of Croatian descent Croatian Football League players Carlton SC players Crystal Palace F.C. players HNK Hajduk Split players Melbourne Knights FC players National Soccer League (Australia) players North Geelong Warriors FC players Olympic soccer players for Australia People educated at Geelong College Caroline Springs George Cross FC players Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup players 2000 OFC Nations Cup players OFC Nations Cup–winning players 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup players 2002 OFC Nations Cup players Sportspeople from Geelong Soccer players from Victoria (state) Australian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia Expatriate men's footballers in England Sportsmen from Victoria (state)