Adam Griffiths

Griffiths Player of the Sydney FC ( 2012)

Adam David Griffiths ( born August 21, 1979 in Sydney ) is an Australian football player. Griffiths played in the course of his professional career already for clubs in Belgium, England and Saudi Arabia, and returned, as his two brothers Joel and Ryan, for the Australian national team for use.

Club career

Griffiths began his career in the adult area at the Sutherland Sharks before he played in the National Soccer League ( NSL ) for the Northern Spirit FC. Since it did not succeed at Northern to prevail, he moved in 2002 to Premier League rivals Newcastle United, where he met his two brothers. In the season 2002/03 collection was achieved in the final round, there was enough but only the last rank. After setting the NSL in 2004 moved Griffiths, as many Australian footballers abroad.

With the Belgian Erstligaaufsteiger KV Oostende he missed in the 2004/05 season in the league and therefore took in the summer of 2005 an offer from the English second division side FC Watford, who offered Griffiths a contract for six months as a trial period. As Griffiths expectations of those responsible did not meet and came to no use of the option to extend the contract by 18 months of club side was not pulled. Two weeks later, he signed at third division AFC Bournemouth a contract until the end of the season after he was able to convince in a test match. Griffiths came to seven league appearances for Bournemouth, which did not extend his contract at the end of the season. The defensive player then took the league rivals FC Brentford a new club with which he served during the season as a regular player, the final table but when severed Table in the Football League Two dismount had.

Griffiths then returned to Australia to Newcastle back, which now as Newcastle United Jets in the A-League, created in 2005, successor to the League in 2004 set National Soccer League, played. Led by twin brother Joel, the top scorer and was voted best player of the season, reached the Jets in the 2007/ 08 season, surprising the championship final. The defensive network to Adam Griffiths, Tarek Elrich, captain Jade North, Andrew Durante, Adam D' Apuzzo and Stuart Musialik, who conceded the fewest goals already in the regular season, also held in a 1-0 final win against the Central Coast Mariners was.

Already during the 2008/09 season, the club finished as the reigning champion at the end of the table, Griffiths signed a contract with the newly formed A-League rivals Gold Coast United. As a defensive key player for the team to the stars Jason Culina and Shane Smeltz obliged Griffiths played only on the opening Round Gold Coast, before accepting a financially lucrative offer from Saudi Arabian club Al -Shabab and the first Australian professional in Saudi Arabia was. His dortiger stay was not marked by success, after only a few uses it has already been released in late 2009 from his contract and signed for the upcoming AFC Champions League 2010 at Adelaide United. Griffiths played for Adelaide four games in the Champions League and qualified for the knockout stages with the team in which you failed to 2:3 after extra time to Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. After half a year he left Adelaide again and moved to China to Hangzhou Nabel Greentown.

National

Adam Griffiths was the last of the three brothers to his international debut. Under coach Pim Verbeek, he played in March 2008 in a friendly match against Singapore for the first time for the Australian national team. His second and so far last international match he came two months later, in another friendly match against Ghana.

Achievements

At club level:

• Australian champion: 2007/ 08