Radovan Filipovic
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Radovan "Sisko" Filipović (born 28 February 1960) is an Australia
n retired football
player of Serbian
ethnicity.
Filipović played for a number of clubs in Australia
at the tail end of his career including Bonnyrigg White Eagles Football Club and White City Football Club
as well as captaining the Australian National Futsal
team the "Futsalroos" to the 1992 FIFA Futsal World Cup.
Overall he participated in three FIFA Futsal World Cup Final Tournaments for Australia.
Known for his deft dribbling and incredible ball control, Filipović was a natural football player in both the outdoor and indoor versions of the game; however, his skills were more attuned to Futsal where he is considered a pioneer of the sport in Australia.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n retired football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
player of Serbian
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
ethnicity.
Filipović played for a number of clubs in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
at the tail end of his career including Bonnyrigg White Eagles Football Club and White City Football Club
White City Football Club
White City Football Club is a football club in Sydney currently playing in the Southern Districts football association. Whity City used to field teams in the NSW Federation Leagues during the 1980's to 2005- History :...
as well as captaining the Australian National Futsal
Futsal
Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...
team the "Futsalroos" to the 1992 FIFA Futsal World Cup.
Overall he participated in three FIFA Futsal World Cup Final Tournaments for Australia.
Known for his deft dribbling and incredible ball control, Filipović was a natural football player in both the outdoor and indoor versions of the game; however, his skills were more attuned to Futsal where he is considered a pioneer of the sport in Australia.