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Q & A with Mark Viduka

May 23rd, 2006 | By: Matt | 8 Comments »

Today in the Herald Sun there was a question and answer session with Mark Viduka.

Read it here

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By Tomislav | May 23rd, 2006 at 6:30 am

I would loved to have heard Jon Anderson ask Viduka how he feels playing against Croatia. The response would have been very interesting.

Posted from Australia

By Matt | May 23rd, 2006 at 9:07 pm

Yeah I agree. I wonder if deep down any of them wish they had played for the other country, both Australian and Croatian players.
I think Anthony Seric from Croatia said he would rather have played for AUS.

Posted from Australia

By Tomislav | May 23rd, 2006 at 9:46 pm

True about Seric but I’m sure Viduka and the others are 100% focused on getting a result for Australia.
Like it or not Viduka has an emotional link to Croatia. He has a home in Zadar (Croatian town on the coast) there with his Croatian born wife and of course his oldies are Croatian.
Also remember when he first played for Australia he used to wear a red white and blue arm band over his sleeve above the elbow covering the Australian jersey. This is the tri colors of the Croatian flag. Interesting hey?
Evan though (like I just mentioned) he will be 100% for Australia I would love to know if he preferred another nation other than to play the game which may decide who progresses, against Croatia.

BTW I’m all for both Australia and Croatia getting through with the final group game between the two to decide who will play Italy in the final 16 

Croatia 2 Brazil 1
Australia 1 Brazil 0

Evan the Brazilian coach today admitted his greatest problem was that his team needs more work working as a team. This has been my prediction all along. They will be a team of individuals who will fail.

Posted from Australia

By Vlado | May 23rd, 2006 at 10:07 pm

Tomislav… Mark’s dad is Croatian… his mum is NOT.

Posted from Australia

By Tomislav | May 23rd, 2006 at 10:52 pm

Vlado, I did bot know this. Do you know what natio his mother might be, if not Australian?

Posted from Australia

By soze | May 23rd, 2006 at 11:01 pm

Matt and all…here is a link to see Croatia’s Šerić and his comments on playing for Australia. I think there is something really wrong with this guy.

http://croatia.worldcupblog.org/group-f/would-you-keep-this-guy.html

By Vlado | May 24th, 2006 at 1:58 am

His mum is Ukrainian.

Posted from Australia

By matilda | May 26th, 2006 at 7:22 am

Not terribly important but Viduka’s Wikipedia entry notes “Croatian and Ukrainian” descent.

However, someone on his “talk” page recently queried the Ukrainian heritage part. If anyone can be bothered explaining it (Vlado?) then that might be good. Wikipedia editors tend to remove or re-edit info if they think it’s unconfirmed.

cheers

Posted from Australia

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