Bruce Djite

Bruce Djite (2008)

Bruce Djite ( born March 25, 1987 in Washington DC) is an Australian football player.

Club career

Djite, 1987 as the son of a professor and an Ivorian Togoerin in Washington DC born, 1990, at the age of three years with his family to Australia, where his father had accepted a position at the University of Western Sydney. For a stay of several months in the Ivory Coast Djite was 6 years old with the game of football in contact and joined a local football club after his return to Australia in. At the age of 13 he came to Northern Spirit FC, ​​after the dissolution of the club in 2004 he moved to the youth department of the Marconi Stallions.

2006, the striker at the Australian Institute of Sport was taken and received in October of the same year a short-term contract with Adelaide United. His debut in the A-League he was October 22 in a 4-2 home win against the New Zealand Knights, after his participation in the U-19 Asia Cup he received again in December a contract and was among others the 0: 6 defeat in the championship final against Melbourne Victory used.

For the 2007/08 season Djite has been committed and established himself as a regular for Adelaide. With six goals in twelve league only inserts an ankle injury forced him to a two-month break, he was Adelaide's top scorer and was awarded at the end of the season with the Rising Star Award for the best U-20 players in the league. In the summer he signed for a rumored A- League record transfer fee of A $ 850,000 a three -year contract with the Turkish club Gençlerbirliği Ankara.

Once in Turkey, he came to 28 inserts League in his first season, scoring six goals, he has so far been used only sporadically in his second season.

National

Djite was eligible to play internationally because of his background for four different football associations. In addition to his native United States, he could also compete for one of the countries of birth of his parents (Ivory Coast and Togo). However Djite opted for a career in the Australian country selection and commented later:

" I never wanted to play for any other country but Australia. I learned my football in Australia. I'm Australian. "

" I never wanted to play for any country other than Australia. I learned the game of football in Australia. I'm Australian. "

In 2006, he failed with the Young Socceroos, the Australian U-20 national team in the quarter- finals of the U-19 Asia Cup and thus failed to qualify for the Junior World Championships in 2007. Between 2007 and 2008 he was a regular in the squad of the Australian Olympic team (U -23 ), found for the Olympic football tournament in China in 2008 but, like his team-mate earlier in Adelaide, Nathan Burns, surprisingly not taken into account in the team of coach Graham Arnold.

At his debut in the Australian A team of offensive athlete came in March 2008 in a friendly match against Singapore when he was substituted at half-time. As a result, he also came in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup on several occasions inserts.