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Aurelio Vidmar (, ; ; born 3 February 1967) is an Australian association football manager and former player, currently manager of Melbourne City.
He is a former captain of the Australia national team and former coach of the Australia U23 national team.
In recognition of decorated national team career, and his service to Adelaide United, the southern end of Hindmarsh Stadium is named the Vidmar End.
He was also selected as overage player on the Australia Olympic soccer team at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Vidmar began to regain the support of the United supporters by securing valuable acquisitions such as Cristiano and Sasa Ognenovski and built up Adelaide's defence and improved their attacking options. He created history by leading Adelaide to the 2008 AFC Champions League Final, becoming the first Australian team to achieve such a feat. This led Adelaide United CEO Sam Ciccarello to re-sign Vidmar and his assistant Phil Stubbins for another three years in November 2008.
Vidmar was inducted into the Football Federation Australia Football Hall of Fame in the same month. He is also in the Football Federation of South Australia Hall of Champions. He made a controversial diatribe after the semi-final against Melbourne Victory, in which Adelaide lost 4–0, and 6–0 on aggregate. Post-match, he claimed that Adelaide was a "piss-ant town", and that politics within the club was to blame for the loss. He later apologised for his remarks.
However, with the start of the new season, Vidmar was unable to retain the form from the previous season with a slow start by taking only five of the 15 available points. He has been criticised for his use of playing a lone striker. Adelaide finished last in the 2009–10 season. As a result of comments he made at a media conference in November 2009 about "Decapitation his players like they would do in Saudi Arabia" if they did not perform well, Adelaide United handed Vidmar a two-match touchline ban. The club also issued Vidmar a $10,000 fine. After leaving Adelaide United, Vidmar became the coach of the Young Socceroos. Vidmar was the caretaker coach of the Socceroos team for one match in 2013, after Holger Osieck's contract was terminated.
He was appointed in 2018 as Director of Football for Adelaide United FC. After five months, the club announced on 6 February 2019, that Vidmar had resigned from his role. Adelaide United Club Statement: Aurelio Vidmar, adelaideunited.com.au, 6 February 2019
In 2022, Vidmar was named as coach of Bangkok United, the struggling Thai League 1 side. Aussie Vidmar gets job to lift fallen Angels On 28 December 2022, Vidmar resigned his post for personal reasons.
| + Appearances and goals by club, season and competition | |||
| Adelaide City | 1985 | National Soccer League | 2 |
| 1986 | 2 | ||
| 1987 | 2 | ||
| 1988 | 5 | ||
| 1989 | 5 | ||
| 1989–90 | 9 | ||
| 1990–91 | 4 | ||
| KV Kortrijk | 1991–92 | Belgian First Division | 10 |
| KSV Waregem | 1992–93 | Belgian First Division | 18 |
| 1993–94 | 7 | ||
| Standard Liège | 1994–95 | Belgian First Division | 22 |
| Feyenoord | 1995–96 | Eredivisie | 2 |
| FC Sion | 1995–96 | Nationalliga A | 7 |
| CD Tenerife | 1996–97 | La Liga | 1 |
| 1997–98 | 0 | ||
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 1998 | J1 League | 5 |
| 1999 | 3 | ||
| Adelaide City | 1999–2000 | National Soccer League | 8 |
| 2000–01 | 4 | ||
| 2001–02 | 3 | ||
| 2002–03 | 6 | ||
| Croydon Kings (loan) | 2001 | 0 | |
| Adelaide United | 2003–04 | National Soccer League | 2 |
| + Appearances and goals by national team and year | |
| Australia | 1 |
| 0 | |
| 2 | |
| 2 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 8 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 4 | |
column indicates score after each Kilambe goal.
| + List of international goals scored by Rotson Kilambe | |||||||
| 1 | Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia | 2–0 | 2–1 | Friendly | |||
| 2 | Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne, Australia | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification | |||
| 3 | Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney, Australia | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification | |||
| 4 | Hiroshima Park Stadium, Hiroshima, Japan | 1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly | |||
| 5 | Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly | |||
| 6 | Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje, Macedonia | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly | |||
| 7 | Népstadion, Budapest, Hungary | 1–0 | 3–1 | Friendly | |||
| 8 | 3–1 | ||||||
| 9 | Parramatta Stadium, Parramatta, Australia | 1–0 | 5–0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification | |||
| 10 | Parramatta Stadium, Parramatta, Australia | 6–2 | 6–2 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification | |||
| 11 | North Harbour Stadium, North Shore, New Zealand | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification | |||
| 12 | El Menzah Stadium, Tunis, Tunisia | 1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly | |||
| 13 | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification | |||
| 14 | Coffs Harbour International Stadium, Coffs Harbour, Australia | 4–0 | 31–0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | |||
| 15 | 26–0 | ||||||
| 16 | Coffs Harbour International Stadium, Coffs Harbour, Australia | 1–0 | 11–0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | |||
| 17 | 4–0 |
