Brad Jones (footballer)

Jones on his debut in the Australian national team (2007)

Bradley " Brad" Scott Jones ( born March 19, 1982 in Armadale ) is an Australian football player. The goalkeeper is since 18 August 2010 at the English club Liverpool under contract.

Club career

Jones came in 2000 from the Australian club Bayswater City SC to FC Middlesbrough. He made ​​his competitive debut for the senior team in 2004 in the third round of the FA Cup against Notts County. A few days later, he also played for the first time in the Premier League in a 2-1 against Fulham. Previously, he had been hired three times, but at Stockport County, Rotherham United and FC Blackpool he was only partly to inserts.

In the next season Jones met five times in the league for the actual number one, his compatriot Mark Schwarzer, are used. In May 2006, Jones saved a penalty from Ruud van Nistelrooy in the away game against Manchester United and secured his team as the 0-0. It was one of his nine Premier League games this year. In the successful UEFA Cup season 2005/ 06 Jones came in four games available for use, including the semi-final match against Steaua Bucharest when his team after a 0-1 defeat in the first leg was already behind 0-2 in the return game, but the game could end up winning even 4:2. In the final, however, was the actual goalkeeper Middlesbrough, Schwarzer in goal. In the FA Cup semi-final ( 0-1 against West Ham United) Jones came off the bench just before the break for Black.

In August 2006, Jones was awarded for three months at Sheffield Wednesday. After some good saves he made also some game-deciding mistake. The resentment some viewers culminated on 21 October 2006 with a 3-2 victory over Queens Park Rangers that he wurde.In pelted them from their own fan block with coins of the second half played Jones twice in each case in the Premier League and in the FA Cup for Middlesbrough. Also, throughout the following season of Australians came only twice to use - in the League Cup and in the league. From October to March, he was also out due to a finger fracture.

After the departure of the Black FC Fulham Jones became the season 2008/ 09 goalkeeper, but was injured already in the early stages of the season and became. After relegation in 2009 in the Football League Championship, the footed since then was in competition with Danny Coyne to the position in the goal.

In August 2010, the Australians moved for a transfer fee of 2.3 million pounds for the English giants Liverpool, where he has a contract until June 2014. Until his first Premier League insert for Liverpool Jones had to wait until April 12, 2012, when he referenced in the game against Blackburn Rovers ( Result 3-2 ) after a half-hour of the field Doni replaced in goal and directly it parrying caused by this penalty. A few days later he was also in a 2-1 victory in the semi-finals of the FA Cup against local rivals Everton at Wembley Stadium in starting line-up.

National

Already represented in the 2004 Olympics Jones, the Australia as a reserve goalkeeper behind Eugene Galekovic, was appointed in May and June 2004 for the people there are World Cup qualifiers for the first time in the Australian national team, but did not play. His international debut he was four months later in a friendly against Uruguay in the 1-2 defeat, he made himself a mistake when he let slip a cross by his hands, which was utilized by Álvaro Recoba for the final score. The first Asian Cup participation of Australia in 2007, Jones was in the squad of the Socceroos, but was not used.

National coach Pim Verbeek called Jones in the Australian squad for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Shortly before the start of the tournament, he traveled from the training camp starting again after a cancer of his four- year-old son has been known and said his participation in the tournament from a short time later.