Aurelio Vidmar (born 3 February 1967 in Adelaide) is an Australian football (soccer) player and former captain of the Australian national team. He is currently not tied to any A-league club. He is the older brother of Tony Vidmar, also an Adelaide coach.
Aurelio started his professional career with local Adelaide team Adelaide City before moving to Europe in the mid-1990s to Belgium, where he was the league's top scorer in the 1994-95 season. He ...
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Aurelio Vidmar (born 3 February 1967 in Adelaide) is an Australian football (soccer) player and former captain of the Australian national team. He is currently not tied to any A-league club. He is the older brother of Tony Vidmar, also an Adelaide coach.
Aurelio started his professional career with local Adelaide team Adelaide City before moving to Europe in the mid-1990s to Belgium, where he was the league's top scorer in the 1994-95 season. He also played in Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands and in Japan before returning to Australia in 1999 to rejoin City. Vidmar signed with Adelaide United when they took Adelaide City's spot in the National Soccer League and was awarded the captaincy by then coach John Kosmina. Despite plans to play in the inaugural A-League season he retired in 2005 bringing an end to a 20 year playing career in which time he played 517 games scoring 127 goals.
Vidmar was a member of the Socceroos team for 12 years and was a member of three unsuccessful FIFA World...
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