Andrew Durante

Durante in training with the Jets (2008)

Andrew James Durante ( May 3, 1982 in Sydney ) is an Australian- New Zealand soccer player. The defender is since 2008 the New Zealand A- League club Wellington Phoenix under contract.

Career

Durante began his active career in the National Soccer League with Sydney Olympic. Already in his first two seasons, he reached Sydney each the championship finals, but was not in the final victory of 2002, when the final defeat in 2003 for use. For the season 2003/ 04 he moved to Parramatta Power, but broke off the end of 2003 after a challenge from Brad Maloney 's leg and fell for the rest of the season.

After setting the NSL to end the season 2003/ 04 he gave a short spell in Singapore in Balestier Khalsa and then played for Sydney United in the NSW Premier League. In the newly established before the season 2005 /06 Australian A-League professional league, he signed a contract with the Newcastle United Jets. During a qualifying match for the Oceania Club Championship in May 2005 Nik Mrdja him again broke with an opponent the right tibia and fibula and caused quite Durante Saisonaus.

Mid-July 2006, he made his comeback for Newcastle and soon became a key player of the jets. The highlight of his time at Newcastle was the championship final of the 2007/08 season, where you defeated the Central Coast Mariners 1-0. Durante was awarded as the best player of the finals with the Joe Marston Medal. This was also his last game for Newcastle, since he at Premier League rivals Wellington Phoenix a two -year contract signed short time later. In Wellington he is team captain since his arrival.

In 2011, he was loaned to FC Sydney and arrived there five times in the AFC Champions League, but not in the league to use.

Achievements

At club level:

  • Master of the A-League: 2007/ 08
  • Master of the NSL: 2001 /02
  • Vice- champion of the NSL: 2002 /03

Individual:

  • Joe Marston Medal: 2007/ 08
  • Nomination in the PFA Team of the Year: 2011/12 ( bench )
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