Meet Mark Bosnich, the first and only Australian to have played for Manchester United.
Bosnich came to England in 1989 from Australian club Sydney Croatia however he played only 3 games until 1991 before going back to Australia.
He returned to Manchester United in 1999 after spending 8 seasons at Aston Villa to replace departing goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel. He was a regular first choice goalkeeper in the 1999/2000 season as Manchester United retained the Premier League title by 18 points, a record at the time. He left in 2001 to join Chelsea.
Fun fact: He is the ONLY player Sir Alex Ferguson has signed twice despite being labelled as the ‘worst professional’ he has ever worked with. LOL wow!
But he is one of only three Australians to have won the Premier League, along with Robbie Slater with Blackburn Rovers in 1995 and Mark Schwarzer in Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea in 2015 and Ranieri’s Leicester City in 2016 despite not even playing a single minute in both those seasons.