David Zdrilic

David Zdrilic

Zdrilic in 2011
Personal information
Full name	David Allen Zdrilic
Date of birth	(1974-04-13) 13 April 1974 (age 50)
Place of birth	Sydney, Australia
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Perth Glory (head coach)
Youth career
0000	Greenwich
0000	King Tomislav Sydney
0000	Patrician Brothers' College
0000	Sutherland Sharks
0000–1993	St George Saints
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1993	St George Saints	20	(8)
1993–1997	Sydney United	114	(39)
1997–1998	Aarau	25	(2)
1998–2000	SSV Ulm	55	(18)
2000–2002	SpVgg Unterhaching	23	(1)
2002–2003	Walsall	24	(5)
2003–2004	Aberdeen	31	(8)
2004	Eintracht Trier	11	(0)
2005–2008	Sydney FC	59	(5)
2009–2010	Sydney United	33	(9)
Total		395	(95)
International career
1997–2005	Australia[2]	30	(20)
2013	Australia (beach soccer)	11	(21)
Managerial career
2009–2010	Maccabi Hakoah
2010–2011	Sydney United
2015–2016	Sydney FC 1st Grade (assistant)
2016–2017	Sydney FC U20
2017–2018	RB Leipzig U17 (assistant)
2018–2020	RB Leipzig U19 (assistant)
2020–2021	Chicago Fire (assistant)
2021	Oostende (assistant)
2022–2023	Genoa (assistant)
2023	Sydney FC (interim)
2023–2024	Sydney FC (assistant)
2024–	Perth Glory
Medal record Representing  Australia Men's Association football FIFA Confederations Cup 2001 South Korea-Japan OFC Nations Cup Winner 2000 Tahiti Winner 2004 Australia AFC–OFC Challenge Cup Runner-up 2001 Japan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Allen Zdrilic (Croatian: Zdrilić; born 13 April 1974) is an Australian association football coach and former player, who is currently the head coach of A-League Men club Perth Glory. Zdrilic is also a football presenter on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Most recently he was a key figure in SBS's coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

Zdrilic played on 30 occasions for the Australia national soccer team, having once scored eight goals in a single match – the second highest recorded for any Australian player, behind Socceroos teammate Archie Thompson, who scored 13 goals in the same game. He was also a member of the Australia national beach soccer team, the Beach Socceroos, having captained the side. He previously played for Sydney FC in the A-League after forging a professional career in Switzerland, Germany, England and Scotland.

As a football presenter on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Zdrilic hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil which won a Logie Award for Most Outstanding Sport Coverage as well as SBS's Friday Night A-League coverage. He has hosted games from the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, various international cup competitions and the football entertainment show Thursday FC on SBS2.

Over the last few years, Zdrilic served in a variety of coaching roles in Germany, Belgium and Italy and the MLS. In early 2022, he became an assistant at Serie A club Genoa - the first Australian to coach in Serie A - after turning down the offer of coaching Australia at the 2024 Olympic Games.^[3]