Alex Wilkinson

Wilkinson as captain of the Mariners (2008)

William Alexander "Alex" Wilkinson ( born August 13, 1984 in Sydney ) is an Australian football player.

Club career

Wilkinson began his career as a player in the men's area, in the National Soccer League ( NSL) at Northern Spirit FC, ​​where he completed 45 missions to the setting of the league in 2004. He then remained in the state of New South Wales leagues fit, before he signed after the creation of the Australian professional league in the A-League Central Coast Mariners. There he was put under coach Lawrie McKinna from the start in central defense and increased in 2007 to the Team Captain. 2006 and 2008 he reached with the Mariners the championship finals, they lost both times there but with 0:1 ( against Sydney FC and Newcastle United Jets ). With 172 missions in the A-League Wilkinson was at the time of his departure record player the Mariners.

In July 2012, Wilkinson moved to Korean club Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors.

National

Wilkinson represented multiple Australian junior national team. In 2001 he won the Australian U- 17 team easily the oceanic World Cup qualifying tournament and then was part of the squad at the U- 17 World Cup 2001 in Trinidad and Tobago. He stood upon reaching the quarterfinals at all four tournament games of his team on the grid and was developed by the FIFA Technical Study Group, as well as his partner in central defense, Matthew Hunter, counted among the key players in the Australian selection.

In 2002 he won the U -20 qualifying tournament for the Junior World Championship 2003 in the United Arab Emirates and was also there to the key players in the squad of youth coach Ange Postecoglou. Together with Captain David Tarka he made during the tournament the Innenverteidigerduo, including a 3-2 victory over the eventual champions Brazil. The tournament ended for the Australian team in the second round after a 0-1 defeat against the hosts.

In the following years, Wilkinson was repeatedly invited to training camp the Australian A- national team to a National team nomination handed it terrible.

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