{{short description|Australian former association footballer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Vic Bozanic | image = | caption = | fullname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|10|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = Adelaide, Australia | death_date = | height = | position = Defender | currentclub = | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | years1 = 1977 | clubs1 = Polonia | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1978–1981 | clubs2 = West Adelaide | caps2 = 90 | goals2 = 7 | years3 = 1982–1983 | clubs3 = Marconi | caps3 = 53 | goals3 = 10 | years4 = 1984 | clubs4 = APIA | caps4 = 20 | goals4 = 4 | years5 = 1985 | clubs5 = St George | caps5 = 17 | goals5 = 4 | years6 = 1986–1987 | clubs6 = APIA | caps6 = 24 | goals6 = 2 | years7 = 1992 | clubs7 = Central Coast | caps7 = | goals7 = | totalcaps = | totalgoals = | nationalyears1 = 1980 | nationalteam1 = Australia | nationalcaps1 = 1 | nationalgoals1 = 1 | medaltemplates = | manageryears1 = | managerclubs1 = | club-update = | nationalteam-update = }} '''Vic Bozanic''' ({{langx|hr|Vic Božanić}}; born 30 October 1957) is an Australian former association footballer. He is the father of Oliver Bozanic<ref name="ozfootball1" /><ref name="australian1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/reading-signs-aussie-teen/story-e6frf4a3-1111112911134|title=Reading signs Aussie teen |last=FitzGibbon|first=Liam|date=30 January 2007|publisher=The Australian|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref> who has also played for the Australia national association football team.
==Playing career==
===Club career=== Bozanic played for Polonia Adelaide before moving to West Adelaide in the National Soccer League, where he scored what would become the championship winning goal in the last game of the 1978 season against Adelaide City.
He later played for NSL clubs APIA and St George.<ref name="ozfootball1" />
===International career=== Bozanic played one full international match for Australia against Papua New Guinea at the 1980 OFC Nations Cup.<ref name="ffa1">{{cite book|title=The Australian National Men's Football Team: Caps And Captains|publisher=Football Federation Australia}}</ref> He played three matches for Australia at the tournament (only the match against PNG was a full international match), scoring two goals including a goal in the final against Tahiti.<ref name="ozfootball1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/B/BOW.html|title=Australian Player Database – B|publisher=ozfootball.net|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref><ref name="rsssf1">{{Cite web|url=http://rsssf.com/tables/80oc.html|title=Oceanian Cup 1980|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref><ref name="rsssf2">{{Cite web|url=http://rsssf.com/tables/80oc-scor.html|title=Oceanian Nations Cup 1980 – Goal Scorers|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref><ref name="ozfootball2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Socceroo/1980B.html|title=Socceroo B Matches for 1980|publisher=ozfootball.net|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref>
==Honours==
===International=== '''Australia''' *NSL Championship: 1978 *OFC Nations Cup: 1980
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/BOT.html#VicBozanic Vic Bozanic] at Aussie Footballers
{{Australia Squad 1980 OFC Nations Cup}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bozanic, Vic}} Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:Men's association football defenders Category:Australian men's soccer players Category:Soccer players from Adelaide Category:Australia men's international soccer players Category:National Soccer League (Australia) players Category:Croydon FC (Australia) players Category:West Adelaide SC players Category:Australian people of Croatian descent Category:St George FC players Category:APIA Leichhardt FC players Category:1980 Oceania Cup players Category:OFC Nations Cup–winning players Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen