Full name Tomas Petar Rogic Playing position Role Football player Weight 89 kg Salary 642,600 EUR (2013) | Number 18 Name Tom Rogic Height 1.88 m Career start 2009 | |
Date of birth (1992-12-16) 16 December 1992 (age 23) Similar People James Forrest, Massimo Luongo, Ronny Deila, Aaron Mooy, Nathan Burns Profiles | ||
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Tomas Petar "Tom" Rogic (born 16 December 1992) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as an attacking midfielder for Scottish Premiership club Celtic and the Australia national team.
Contents
- Top 23 Tom Rogics greatest goals for Celtic
- Tom Rogic The Wizard Of Oz Celtic Amazing Goals Assists Skills
- Early life
- Early career
- Central Coast Mariners
- Celtic
- Melbourne Victory
- Futsal
- Olympic
- Senior
- Club
- References
Born in Griffith, Rogic played youth football with Tuggeranong United before playing senior football for ANU FC and Belconnen United. In 2011, Rogic joined Nike Football Academy after winning a global competition. He returned to Australia in 2012 to play for Central Coast Mariners !Central Coast Mariners, before moving to Scottish club Celtic in 2013. He has also spent time on loan at Melbourne Victory !Melbourne Victory.
Rogic has as of current 13 caps for Australia, scoring one goal. He has also represented Australia in futsal.
Early life
Rogic is of Serbian descent, and attended Radford College in Bruce, ACT.
Early career
As a junior, Rogic played for Tuggeranong United. In 2009 he moved to his first senior club, playing with ANU FC in the ACT Premier League. In 2011, Rogic moved to play one season with Belconnen United in the same league. The same year, he was also selected to join the Nike Football Academy after winning The Chance, a competition which he won alongside seven other young footballers amongst 75,000 other hopefuls around the world.
Central Coast Mariners
On 2 January 2012, Rogic signed with A-League club Central Coast Mariners. He made his professional debut in the 2011–12 A-League season on 21 January 2012 in a Round 18 clash against Adelaide United, which the Mariners won 3–2. Tom scored his first goal for the club in a 2–1 loss to Melbourne Victory on 10 February 2012, and was later named the A-League's young player of the month for February 2012.
At the beginning of the 2012–13 season, Rogic was rejected from all of his local trials A-League clubs, opting to remain with the Mariners. Rogic scored his first goals of the season in the home victory against Sydney FC, scoring two goals to help the Mariners win 7–2 over the Sky Blues. On 5 December 2012, Rogic was awarded NAB Young footballer of the Month Award for November 2012, as well as simultaneously being the second nomination for NAB Young footballer of the Year Award. In only his first full A-League season, Rogic received interest from English Premier League sides Reading and Fulham, La Liga sides Celta Vigo and Rayo Vallecano, and Belgian Pro League club Club Brugge.
Celtic
On 9 January 2013, it was reported that Rogic had joined Scottish Premier League champions Celtic at their training camp in Spain. On 16 January 2013, it was reported that terms had been agreed for the transfer of Rogic from Central Coast Mariners to Celtic, subject to personal terms. The deal was completed the next day. Rogic made his Celtic debut on 9 February 2013 in a Scottish Premier League match against Inverness Caledonian Thistle; setting up Kris Commons with a cross to score the equaliser, bringing the score to 1–1. Celtic went on to win 3–1 and Rogic won the Man of the Match award. He made a further seven appearances for Celtic that season.
The following season saw Rogic make only a handful of appearances for Celtic, and he was sent out on loan to Melbourne Victory in January 2014. His spell back in Australia was marred by ankle and groin injuries, and these continued to trouble him on his return to Celtic in the summer of 2014. He required to have two operations on his groin, and didn't play again until March 2015 when he made his comeback in Celtic's Development Side match against Motherwell.
On 9 August 2015 Rogic made his first start for Celtic in almost two years, scoring the opening goal in a 2–0 win against Partick Thistle. Rogic began to regularly feature in the Celtic team, and scored further goals against St Johnstone and Dundee in the weeks that followed.
Melbourne Victory
On 17 January 2014, it was announced that Rogic would join Melbourne Victory on loan until May 2014. After Celtic pushed back offers from Sydney FC and Central Coast Mariners, and Vegalta Sendai pulled out, Melbourne Victory swooped in and sealed the loan deal, which placed Rogic back in the A-League after rising to fame with Central Coast Mariners. A recurring groin injury limited Rogic's appearances for Melbourne, and the injury eventually saw him miss the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2015 AFC Asian Cup for Australia.
Futsal
Rogic has represented the Futsalroos. At the 2010 AFC Futsal Championship Rogic scored six goals, making him Australia's leading goal scorer and equal fourth leading goal scorer for the tournament at the age of 18.
Olympic
On 7 March 2011, Rogic was selected to represent the Australia Olympic football team in an Asian Olympic Qualifier match against Iraq, during which he made his debut as a halftime substitute for his Central Coast Mariners teammate Mustafa Amini at the Central Coast Stadium in Gosford.
Senior
Rogic made his debut for the Australia national team on 14 November 2012 as a substitute in a 2–1 friendly victory over South Korea. On 11 June 2013, Rogic came on as a sub in Australia's 4–0 win against Jordan in a 2014 World Cup Qualifier and provided the assist for captain Lucas Neill's first international goal.
On 3 September 2015, Rogic scored his first goal for Australia, scoring in a 5–0 defeat of Bangladesh in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier.
Club
As of 1 November 20151 – Includes A-League final series statistics
Club
Central Coast Mariners
Celtic