Mark Widuka is a man of many faces in the Premier League, playing for Leeds United, Middlesbrough and Newcastle, scoring a total of 92 goals in 240 games, and although there is no hardcore personal honor to support his front, in the Premier League, there are many people who are afraid of the "Australian Cannon".
1 meter 88 tall, weighing 92 kilograms, known as Australia's Vieri, there is a story that fans are familiar with: his classmate at the Sports Institute, that is, the later tennis star Philips, who believed that he was a Greek descendant, took the initiative to challenge Viduca to save the penalty, Viduka got up, Philipsis did save the penalty, but because the shooting force was too large, he broke his arm.
If Viduka only had strength, he could have sparked with the popular Australian sport of cricket, and Viduka witnessed his father fall on the back when he was coaching a local amateur team, which made him decide to start practicing hard.
At the age of 9, he scored 13 goals in one game, and at the age of 18, he won the domestic league championship twice, and he must take a football-oriented path. In fact, on the road to self-pursuit, Viduka has also become a national idol.
Cahill said: "Starting with Viduka and Cowell, Australian football has its own example. ”
If you choose to take a safe corner, will the star effect created by Viduka be limited by Australia, where football culture is not rich? When he played for the Melbourne Cavaliers, Dortmund and Juventus visited him on the spot, but these were "pediatrics", because the young Viduka was a player who was concerned by even the president.
At that time, Croatia's first democratically elected president, Tudyman, visited Australia, but as soon as he arrived in Canberra, he asked to meet with Viduka, not only because Viduka's parents were Croatian, but because he hoped that the star of hope could join the Zagreb team (now Dinamo Zagreb).
After the visit, Tudyman invited him to fly with the presidential plane to Croatia, such a grand pomp and circumstance that Viduka was flattered, but the career planning always needed to be considered in the long run, so he declined the president's hospitality. Three weeks later, however, he joined Zagreb, which was also inseparable from his parents' consent.
In three seasons, Viduka scored more than 40 goals, and the trip was filled with joy by the double title for three consecutive years, but because of his special relationship with Tudyman, even if he won the best in the game, he would be considered a backdoor, and he was also ridiculed as gay by extreme fans.
Later, he attributed it to a "turbulent political situation", and later, he wanted to leave.
He joined the Scottish Banba Celtics in 1998, for which he turned down some clubs in the Premier League, explaining: "I'm lazy and don't like to run. "In two years, the Celtics won the cup and Viduka won the top scorer and was named Scottish Footballer of the Year.
It seems that his choice is not wrong, but in fact, in the beginning, his negotiations with the Celts lasted all summer, and he could only return to Australia to reunite with his parents in Croatia, and even revealed the idea of succeeding his father who was engaged in the construction industry.
In the days when Larson was seriously injured, the Australian became a national icon, and in the gap between enjoying the applause, he got closer to the Premier League, which changed his mind: "I want to be a part of it." ”
£6 million was a big expense at the time, but the 25-year-old was worth the money to set off a white storm with Alan Smith, Ferdinand, Woodgate and Robbie Keane. Although the initial Australians were not popular with fans due to preparations for the Sydney Olympics, the wind was reversed after scoring 17 goals in 34 appearances in the Premier League debut season.
One of the most classic hero shows is the big four joys on Elam Road, falling behind, leveling, overtaking, and killing the plot ups and downs, and the last Leeds player who completed the senior year also had to go back to Alan Clarke in 1971, coincidentally, this day is also the birthday of Viduka's mother, every November 4, he will be blessed and blessed. Of course, his big-game attributes also remain in the Champions League, where he has broken through the city of the Bernabeu and followed the White Rose to create a team record.
He was chased by the giants, he was regarded as a non-seller by Leeds United, but in the past four years, leeds United's record has been worse than a year, from fighting for Champions League qualification to relegation, and even more tragically, he was once excluded from the big list by the new coach, and he also protested from time to time with late training, and even refused to go to away games.
The breakup, not caught off guard, said goodbye to Elan Road after his compatriot Coville. Viduka, who has scored 72 goals in 156 games, has no shortage of buyers. Capello, who had been favored by Capello, joined Middlesbrough when the white roses were withering, and more surprisingly, his transfer fee was only 4.5 million pounds, which felt like a robbery.
But in the new owner, the Australian star scored 19 goals in his best season, fans have written a personal song for him, but also suffered an 8-month goal drought, although they have felt the atmosphere of the League Cup final and the FA Cup semi-final, and there is also the care of his hometown Schwarzer, but compared to before, Viduka's tank is less powerful.
Despite coach McLaren's use of the phrase "In a sense, Viduka is priceless." ”
Refusing to renew his contract, he held hands with Middlesbrough's old rival Newcastle, who was Allardyce's first signing in the summer of 2007, but the Magpies did not turn into a phoenix, Viduka also became mediocre, scoring only 6 goals in the first season with Irving and Martins, and in the second season, after missing most of the games, the team eventually relegated.
Doing one thing well explains everything, but unfortunately it backfired, perhaps mourning more than death, after the termination of Viduka declined invitations from Melbourne Victory and Melbourne Heart, and announced her retirement in 2010.
Even more bizarrely, he sold his Melbourne property and returned to his hometown of Croatia, where his wife was from Zagreb, where they ran a coffee shop together, and who had imagined that this man with the figure of a heavy tank would live a delicate life.