Paul Reid (Australian association footballer)

Reid as a Test player of the Sydney FC ( 2012)

Paul James Reid ( born July 6, 1979 in Sydney ) is an Australian football player in the service of the Australian first division club Sydney FC. Reid won two Australian championships and played six years in England.

Club career

Reid came in 1998 from his youth club Macarthur Rams in the National Soccer League with the Wollongong Wolves, with whom he 2000 and 2001, the Australian Championship and also the Oceania Club Championship 2000/ 01 won. In winning the title in 2000 Reid saved his side's lead to 3-3 in the 89th minute equalizing the Wolves in overtime, in the subsequent penalty shootout, he met the penultimate shooter for 7-6 draw. The two -time champion team to Reid, Scott Chipperfield, Matt Horsley, 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 Reid joined in 2002 the English second division club Bradford City on.

There he first played equipped with a monthly contract to test and scored on his for new face both goals in a 2-1 win over Norwich City. Despite this achievement Reid was the majority of the season on the sidelines, until March 2003, he came again to a number of deployments and received at season's end a new one-year contract. Thrown back by injury and loss of form he found neither under manager Nicky Law still under his successor Bryan Robson consideration and came to March 2004 only to operations in the reserve team 2003/ 04 before him Robson, as well as his compatriot Gareth Edds, transfer enabling issued and so a free transfer move to the Football League One promotion candidates for Brighton & Hove Albion enabled. There, Reid played for the last match day of the season in the team and participated in all three play-off games, in a 1-0 victory over Bristol City in front of 65,000 spectators at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium with the rise of the Football League Championship ended.

In Brighton Reid often played as a right -back, but was also used on its 's preferred position on the right of midfield and left-back. After 2004/ 05 with rank 20 succeeded almost relegation, he spent one year later at the bottom of the table lying the descent into League One. The season 2007/ 08 he started again as a right-back and performance of its permanent offensive drive in the first twelve inserts two goals before kept him a torn ACL for more than half a year from the game. On his return to the training operation in April 2007, he also suffered an ankle injury that forced him to a six -week break, and thus to premature end of the season. Also in the season 2007 /08 remained Reid not spared from injury problems and was struggling with knee and groin problems. Throughout the course of the season, he completed only nine appearances for the first team, four times he was in the starting lineup. The reserve team won Reid, who also received British citizenship during the season, meanwhile, the Sussex Senior Cup. The local -final was also his last assignment for Brighton because he was not offered contract extension in addition to the long-standing team members Kerry Mayo, Gary Hart and Guy Butters coach Dean Wilkins.

Although he received from Wilkins ' successor Micky Adams, who later took over as coach at Brighton for a short time, the chance to recommend in the preseason for a new contract, so as then he succeeded in Brighton but neither in a trial with Hereford United. Ultimately, Reid returned after six years in England to Australia and joined in the A- League, which was created in 2005 as a successor to the 2004 set National Soccer League, Adelaide United. His first season with Adelaide, where he acted as a defensive midfielder, was an excellent success for him: First, he reached Adelaide in November 2008 as the first Australian club the final of the AFC Champions League ( 0-5 on aggregate and return match against Gamba Osaka), the club was qualified but despite the local defeat for the FIFA Club World Cup 2008. In the Club World Cup Reid denied all three tournament games over the full distance and prepared two of the three goals of his team in front, which closed after victories over Waitakere United and Al -Ahly Cairo on the fifth. In January 2009, Reid was for his international debut in the Australian National Dress and in February he was with Adelaide in the Cup Final against Melbourne Victory, which was lost with 0:1. In stark contrast was the following season for Reid; Calf and thigh injuries limited him to eight league appearances in the 2009/10 season, which ended for Adelaide on the tenth and last place.

After the regular season of 2010/ 11, in the Reid completed 29 games, he requested before the finals the release for an immediate switch to the Sydney FC, ​​who played in the season's Champions League after. Adelaide coach Rini Coolen declined from Reid's suggestion, after which Reid was not in the squad for the first final match against Wellington Phoenix (1-0 ). About the reasons for non - consideration to the parties disagreed, while Coolen represented this as Reid's request, Reid denied this representation and called problems in contract negotiations as crucial for its exclusion. Reid was one of the following elimination final against Gold Coast United back to the starting line, in the 2:3 defeat, however, he denied his last competitive game for Adelaide. Shortly afterwards, the club's management announced after the rejection of a first contract offer by Reid no further contract negotiations with the player to lead more.

In January 2012, Reid signed as a replacement for the injured Fred a short-term contract with A- League club Melbourne Heart and completed in the following weeks, four games before it, after its expiry in March 2012 by Phil Stubbins, former assistant coach of Adelaide United to the first division Thailand INSEE Police United was piloted. His trip to Thailand lasted only a few months, and after a long trial with Sydney FC he finally signed with the club from his hometown, one-year contract.

National

Reid, who briefly belonged to Australia's U-20 squad in 1999, was first invited in October 2008 for a 35- player extensive training camp before a World Cup qualifier against Qatar in the Australian national team, the jump in the Matchday squad but could not. In January 2009, Reid made ​​his debut 29 years old from Indonesia in a qualification match for the Asia Cup 2011 in the National Team ( Full 0:0), as the national team was formed exclusively of players from the domestic A -League. In early March 2009 he formed under the same conditions in a further qualifier against Kuwait in cooperation with Matt McKay and Tom Pondeljak the Australian midfield, according to the local 0-1 defeat grabbed national coach Pim Verbeek, however, for the other games back to Europe Legionaries back.

Achievements

At club level:

• Australian champion: 1999/2000, 2000/ 01
• Oceania Club Championship: 2000/ 01

Individual:

• Nomination in the PFA Team of the Year: 2008/ 09 ( bench )