Bosnich playing for the Central Coast Mariners in 2008
Personal information
Full name
Mark John Bosnich[1]
Date of birth
(1972-01-13) 13 January 1972 (age 52)
Place of birth
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height
1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Position(s)
Goalkeeper
Youth career
1988–1989
Sydney Croatia
1989–1990
Manchester United
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
1990–1991
Manchester United
3
(0)
1991–1992
Sydney United
5
(0)
1992–1999
Aston Villa
179
(0)
1999–2001
Manchester United
23
(0)
2001–2003
Chelsea
5
(0)
2008
Central Coast Mariners
4
(0)
2009
Sydney Olympic
8
(0)
Total
227
(0)
International career
1991
Australia U20
6
(0)
1991–1992
Australia U23
6
(0)
1993–2000
Australia
17
(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Mark John Bosnich (Croatian: Marko Ivan Bosnić; born 13 January 1972) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper, and sports pundit. He played in England for Premier League clubs Aston Villa, Manchester United and Chelsea. He also played in Australia for Sydney United, Central Coast Mariners and Sydney Olympic, as well as representing Australia 17 times during his career, scoring one goal for his nation. He was a co-host of Bill & Boz on Fox Sports News.
Manchester United brought Bosnich to England in 1989, but a lack of first-team opportunities and a failed attempt to secure a work visa, saw him return to Australia. A year later, Aston Villa brought him back to England and he established himself as one of the best goalkeepers in the Premier League during the 1990s. Manchester United re-signed him in 1999 as a replacement for the departing Peter Schmeichel, but injuries and a lack of first-team opportunities led to a decline in form. He left Manchester United for Chelsea in 2001, where he again struggled to find a regular place in the starting line-up and continued to battle with injuries. In September 2002, he was released by Chelsea and banned from football for nine months after testing positive for cocaine.
Bosnich subsequently developed an addiction to the drug and spent the next six years of his life in exile, before training for a comeback in 2007 and eventually making a return to the professional game in his native Australia the following year, before retiring in 2009.
^"Mark Bosnich". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
^"Mark Bosnich". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
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