Matt Horsley

Matthew " Matt" Horsley ( born June 9, 1972 in Wollongong ) is a former Australian football player. The midfielder won four Australian titles in his 15-year career.

Career

Horsley first played in amateur football Illawarra for the Balgownie Rangers, before joining the season 1990/91 in the National Soccer League ( NSL ) at the Wollongong Wolves. There he quickly established himself as a regular player and service providers, as captain led Horsley Wollongong in 2000 and 2001 to two championships and to win the Oceania Club Championship 2000/ 01. For his performance in the final of 2001 he was awarded the Joe Marston Medal. The two -time champion team to Horsley, Scott Chipperfield, Paul Reid, Sasho Petrovski, Alvin Ceccoli and Stuart Young is one of the games strongest in the history of the NSL, but dropped out after the second title apart and Horsley moved to financially potent Premier League rivals Perth Glory.

The Glory team to the two top striker Damian Mori and Bobby Despotovski reached between 2002 and 2004 three times in a row the championship final, after a defeat in 2002 was followed by two title wins. Horsley thus came to four finals in succession (two with Wollongong, two with Perth ), only the last Triumph 2004, he was missing. After setting the NSL in 2004, Horsley was in Perth and continued his career briefly in the newly formed A-League continues. In December 2005, he dissolved his contract with Perth and finished his professional career at the same time in order to support his wife can that had been displaced as a policewoman to Kununurra.

In the dominated Europe legionnaires Australian national Horsley came in February 2000 in a friendly match against Bulgaria at a 20 - minute appearance.

Achievements

• Oceania Club Championship: 2000/ 01
• Australian champion: 1999/2000, 2000/ 01, 2002/ 03, 2003 /04
• Australian runner-up: 2001 /02
• Joe Marston Medal: 2001