Adam Taggart
Taggart as a player of the Australian U -20 ( 2013)
Jake Adam Taggart ( born June 2, 1993 Joondalup ) is an Australian football player.
Career
Taggart comes from the junior range of ECU Joondalup and debuted in May 2008 at the age of 14 years for the first team of the club in the Western Australia Premier League. In August 2008, he graduated with two other young players of Joondalup, the twins Aryn and Ryan Williams, a trial with Portsmouth in England. A little later he was top scorer of the U- 15 team from Western Australia at the National Youth Championships in Coffs Harbour. In July 2009, a trial with local professional club Perth Glory and Taggart followed was finally for the 2009/10 season was added to the National Youth League in the youth team of Perth. After receiving a two-year scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS ) in Canberra Taggart left in January 2010, the Western Australia, but returned in December 2010 back to Perth. There he joined Perth Glory on again and got a semi- professional contract, according to which he nominally still belonged to the youth team, but full-time trained with the first team.
To his debut in the A-League the young striker came on 15 January 2011 against Melbourne Heart, his first goal in the professional area he scored on his penultimate for new face on matchday of the 2010/11 season with a 1-2 defeat against Gold Coast United. Perth Glory finished the season in second to last place in the standings and Taggart counted along with Tommy Amphlett and Josh Risdon to the young talents of Perth for the following season. In the season 2011/12 Taggart remained only the role as a third striker in the pecking order. Behind the most goals in the A-League, Shane Smeltz and Billy Mehmet it was enough in the course of the season only to four brief appearances as a substitute. The limited operating time was also due to a migration of coach Ian Ferguson, which offered only one striker place. In the Championship play-offs, where Perth only lost in the final of Brisbane Roar, Taggart was not used.
Despite its short operating periods Taggart was nominated during the season regularly for Australian junior national teams. With the U-20 team in November 2011 he took part in the qualifying round of the U-19 Asian Cup 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and contributed with three hits to the Group's victory and the associated reaching the finals. Immediately afterwards he was appointed by Aurelio Vidmar in the U-23 selection for the Olympic qualifiers against Iraq and Uzbekistan, in which he was employed by each Substitutes.
Despite a contract offer, Taggart decided in March 2012 not to renew his expiring contract with Perth Glory and signed instead with the Premier League rivals Newcastle United Jets a two-year contract under which there head coach Gary van Egmond he had already trained in the AIS. Previously, U-23 national team coach Vidmar had publicly called for more use times in the A-League by Taggart and this indirectly suggested a change of club. Taggart wanted claims to leave with the change from the West to the East of Australia 's own " comfort zone " and hoped for more stakes in the young team of Newcastle, in the season break next to Taggart with Mark Birighitti, Craig Goodwin, Scott Neville, Joshua Brilliant, Dominik Ritter, James Brown, Mitch Cooper and Bernardo Ribeiro numerous players of 23 years or younger committed.
His participation in the discharged in July 2012 qualifying tournament for the U -22 Asia Cup in 2014 had the attacker to cancel due to injury, after he had a few days previously injured in his first race for the Jets in a friendly against Broadmeadow Magic. Up to his coach midway through the first half he had contributed with two hits for a 3-1 win. In the early stage of the season Taggart came because of the commitment of the former England international striker Emile Heskey is not the role of the substitute score beyond the end of November 2012 by national team coach Holger Osieck he was nevertheless the first time appointed to the Australian national team, which is the occasion of qualifying for the East Asian Championship 2013 mainly composed of players from the A-League. On his debut, he came to Hong Kong on 3 December, in a 8-0 victory against Taiwan six days later he scored his first goal for the national team.