Tom Rogic

Club

_Free Agent Soccer

Position

Midfielder

Nationality

Australia

Date of birth

1992-12-16

Birthplace

Griffith, Australia

Height

1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)

Weight

0

Signing / transfer fee

Not applicable

Tomas Petar Rogic (born 16 December 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who most recently played as an attacking midfielder for West Bromwich Albion and the Australia national team.
Born in Canberra, 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, before moving to Scottish club Celtic in 2013. He has also spent time on loan at Melbourne Victory.

Rogic has thirty-one caps for Australia, scoring seven goals. He has also represented Australia in futsal.

Early life
Rogic is of Serbian descent, and attended Radford College in Bruce, ACT.

Club career
Early career
As a junior, Rogic played for Woden Weston and 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. He 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 Premier League sides Reading and Fulham, La Liga sides Celta Vigo and Rayo Vallecano, and 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 Spa