Tony Popović (Croatian: [pǒpovit͡ɕ]; born 4 July 1973) is an Australian association football manager and former player. He is currently head coach of the Australia national football team. He guided the team to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, thus becoming the first Australian to play for and manage the team at a World Cup.
As a player Popovic's usual position was centre-back. Starting in 1989 at Sydney United he went on to play for Sanfrecce Hiroshima of Japan and Premier League side Crystal Palace, among other clubs. He appeared with the Australian national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where he played against reigning World Champions Brazil.
Popovic started his coaching career in 2008 with Sydney FC. After a brief stint as assistant manager at Crystal Palace he was chosen as the inaugural manager of Western Sydney Wanderers at the start of the 2012–13 season. His major achievements as a manager are winning the 2012–13 A-League Premiership and 2014 AFC Champions League with the Wanderers, the 2018–19 A-League Premiership with Perth Glory and an Australia Cup with Melbourne Victory in 2022. He holds the record of coaching the most A-League Grand Final losses with 5 to the end of the 2023/2024 season. He was appointed as coach of Australia in 2024 and led them to qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
He is the father of Kristian and Gabriel Popovic, both of whom are also professional footballers.
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Date: 05 July 1973
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
J J O'Connor comments on ABC News TV program, The First and Essential Freedom, which attempts to give overview of history of press freedom in US
Date: 05 July 1973
Pres Allende on July 4 calls off emergency decrees which gave armed forces job of policing Chile and powers to impose curfews, prohibit public meetings and censor news; returns nation to full civilian rule; Interior Under Sec D Vergara says Govt has dropped emergency orders because causes that forced imposition of measures have disappeared
Date: 04 July 1973
By ALVIN SHUSTERSpecial to The New York Times
NY Times survey of foreign press coverage of Watergate affair shows that many newspapers outside Soviet bloc expanded coverage for several days after ex-White House counsel J W Dean 3d accused Pres Nixon of participating in Watergate cover-up, but in recent days subject has been relegated to inside pages with virtually no editorial comment; survey finds that importance of whole affair, and its ramifications, seem to escape most foreigners, although there is increasing speculation that charges against Nixon could lead to his resignation; in GB, Daily Telegraph ed says that Dean's charges, if substantiated, are enough to secure Nixon's 'impeachment or at least force his resignation'; in most of capitals surveyed, Nixon resignation or impeachement would be unwelcome to officials, who fear it would lead to period of global instability at time when superpowers are hard at work trying to foster detente
Date: 05 July 1973
D Schorr says in CBS News rept on July 4 that status rept from original Watergate prosecutors to special prosecutor A Cox recommends indictment of H R Haldeman, J D Ehrlichman, J N Mitchell and J W Dean 3d, and, in return for their cooperation, reduced charges against L P Gray 3d, G Strachan and J S Magruder; says their investigation is 85% complete; prosecutors E J Silbert, S Glanzer and D E Campbell say in their rept to Cox that it is understood that Pres Nixon's former personal lawyer, H W Kalmbach, will get complete immunity from prosecution; rept expounds theory that main motivations behind unsuccessful Watergate cover-up were fear that disclosure of involvement of higher-ups would cast shadow over Pres Nixon and hurt his chances for re-election, and fear that previous illegal acts involving G G Liddy and E H Hunt Jr, including break-in at office of D Ellsberg's former psychiatrist, would be exposed; Schorr says evidence against Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean is described as 'documentary as well as verbal' in status rept; rept allegedly does not deal with Pres Nixon's position in Watergate affair, but does raise questions about his role
Date: 05 July 1973
Special to The New York Times
McCarthy, William T
Date: 05 July 1973
comment on July 4 events at internatl track and field meet in Oulu, Finland
Date: 05 July 1973
D K Gottlieb, pres of Lee Enterprises, operator of 14 daily newspapers and 6 broadcast facilities, dies on July 4; was 59
Date: 05 July 1973
Date: 04 July 1973