Joey Didulica

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joey Didulica
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Oct 14, 1977(1977-10-14)
Age	47
Birthplace	Geelong
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Libra

Joey Didulica Biography

Joey Didulica is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on October 14, 1977 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Joseph Anthony “Joey” Didulica (Croatian pronunciation”didulitsa”), born on 14 October , 1977) is an born in Australia. Croatian former soccer player who was goalkeeper. In the 11th October of 2011, he retired from the sport due to persistent head and neck pains.

On April 24, 2006 an Austrian court handed down Didulica to a fine of EUR60,000 , on the charge of bodily injury caused by negligence for hitting Rapid Wien’s Axel Lawaree during the Vienna derby in the month of May.

On 11 October 2011, Didulica announced his retirement from football due to his persistent neck and head injuries.

Didulica began his career in his Croatian national team in a friendly game against Macedonia on the 28th of April at Skopje and was then chosen to join the Croatian team for the Euro 2004 finals, where he was second choice goalie, but did not make an appearance. He was part of the Croatian team for both finals and qualifying stages at 2006’s World Cup, but did not even play for a minute of the tournaments. Tomislav Butina played eight of 10 qualifiers, and was substituted in the two remaining qualifiers by Stipe Pletikosa. He also played every minute of all three games during the finals. For more than two years participating in Croatia’s Croatian nation’s team Didulica was only able to make the appearance in four friendly games with Macedonia, Korea Republic, Hong Kong and Austria. A month after the conclusion in 2006 World Cup, Didulica announced his decision to retire from international football and stated that he would like to focus more on his career with his club.

Joey Didulica Net Worth

Joey Didulica is one of the richest Association Football Player from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joey Didulica 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Didulica began to play football with his first team, the North Geelong Warriors. The year 1996 saw him transferred towards Melbourne Knights. Melbourne Knights, a club which is primarily comprised mostly of Australian Croats, and played with them until the year 1999. After that, he moved into Ajax Amsterdam, whence he was loaned out to Belgian club Germinal Beerschot for a couple of months in 2001 prior to finally shifting into Austria Vienna in 2003. After three seasons playing regularly in goal with Austria Wien, Didulica returned to the Netherlands and was hired to AZ Alkmaar. He played seven Eredivisie appearances for the club, but was forced to take a more extended break due to a concussion of the brain suffered during the league game with PSV Eindhoven in October 2006 after being struck by the ball on his head by a shot made by the team’s Australian player Jason Culina.

The year 2000 was the time Didulica received a spot in the Australian team at the Sydney Olympics however, he was forced to pull out due to injury . He also did not receive any international caps for the Australian national team in the A-level level. The year 2004 was the time he made the choice to represent the nation from the parents of his. According to Didulica the reason for his decision was based upon his experience that showed he was not been chosen as a representative for Australia by the coach at the time, Frank Farina. In addition, Australia had not qualified for an World Cup for around 30 years, and he was seeing greater opportunities to succeed with Croatia which had were both qualified for the World Cups they entered at the time.

In June 2007, Didulica successfully appealed the decision of the lower court to the High Court of Vienna. The original charges against Didulica were quashed and he was acquitted of everything, the Court ruling Didulica had played the ball, not acted unreasonably and did not intend to cause injury to the opponent.

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Facts & Trivia

Joey Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Joey Didulica celebrates birthday on October 14 of every year.