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Ivan Zelic

Ivan Zelic at Flickerfest Short Film Festival opens at Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, 11 January 2013
Personal information
Full name	Ivan Zelic
Date of birth	(1978-02-24) 24 February 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth	Canberra, Australia
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1985–	Canberra FC
1994–1995	AIS
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995–1997	Sydney Olympic	24	(0)
1997–1999	Canberra Cosmos	33	(2)
1999–2000	Adelaide City	9	(0)
2000–2001	Melbourne Knights	5	(0)
2001–2002	Sydney United	13	(0)
2003	Johor FC
2003–2005	St. George Saints
2006	Blacktown City Demons
International career‡
1996–1997	Australia U-20
1998–1999	Australia U-23
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:30, 19 August 2010 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17:30, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Ivan Zelic (born February 24, 1978^{[citation needed]}) is an Australian former international footballer and current writer, filmmaker, and actor.

Ivan Zelic was born to Croatian parents on February 24, 1978. He started to play football at the age of 7 for Canberra FC, a club known for developing Australian Croatian football talent, including his older brother Ned Zelic and Croatian international Josip Simunic.^[1]

Zelic received a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport (A.I.S) at the age of 16^{[citation needed]}, where he was spotted by Sydney Olympic from the National Soccer League (NSL), and began playing in this professional league at the age of 17 as a defender in David Ratcliffe's side of 1995–96.^[2]

He then signed for Adelaide City on a two-year deal, leaving halfway through the second season to join the Melbourne Knights.^[3]

After finishing the season, Zelic returned home to play for Canberra FC,^[4] playing for the local side as a left sided midfielder as they won the minor premiership.[2]^{[dead link]}

After a 9-month lay off through injury, he recovered and signed for Malaysian club Johor FC, where he spent a season.^[5]

Zelic was a regular of the Australian Under 20s,^[6] or Young Socceroos, starting 11^[7] leading up to and during the World Youth Cup in Malaysia in 1997.

After the World Youth Cup, he became the captain of the Australian Olympic team or Olyroos leading up to the Sydney 2000 Olympics but fell out of favor with Australian Olympic team coach Raul Blanco.

Blanco eventually invited Zelic to be part of the Olympic squad for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, but Zelic declined the offer.^[8]

Zelic has guest starred in Australian shows including All Saints, Home and Away and Packed to the Rafters.^[9]

In 2015, he played the lead role in "Colt 13", a short film directed by Luke A. McKay, which played at numerous film festivals and earned Zelic a best actor award at the Sydney Indie Film Festival.^[10]

In 2008, Zelic wrote and directed his first short film, The Sin Bleeder, with cinematographer Marc Windon. Zelic's style in The Sin Bleeder was characterized by long takes and smooth camera movements. The short film played at numerous short film festivals, including the Bondi Short Film Festival.^[11]

His follow-up, Ruthless Days, also appeared at a number of short film festivals across Australia, including the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.^[12]

Zelic is the younger brother of former Australian international footballer Ned Zelić and the older brother of former SBS football presenter Lucy Zelic.^[13]

• OzFootball profile
• Ivan Zelic at WorldFootball.net
• Ozfootball.net
• Findarticles.com
• Ivan Zelic at IMDb
• "Blogs.myspace.com". Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• If.comau
• Badlit.com
• The Sin Bleeder at IMDb
• Ruthless Days at the Internet Movie Database