Anthony Danze

Anthony Danze ( born March 15, 1984 in Perth ) is a former Australian football player. Danze took all three Australian junior national team at major international tournaments, but summed up in the professional sector, partly due to injury, do not walk and ended his professional career at the age of 23.

Club career

Danze played shortly after his 16th birthday for ECU Joondalup in Western Australia Premier League, the top division of the state. Joondalup operational at this time the newcomers in cooperation with the English first division club FC Southampton the Saints' Academy under the direction of former English professional footballer Mick Lyons and therefore had numerous talented young players. Because of these relationships graduated Danze 2000, a trial at FC Southampton, refused an offer from the English club from but. Instead, he moved in September 2000 to Perth Glory, the only Western Australian Club in the national league National Soccer League. As justification for his whereabouts in Australia he mentioned that he did not feel ready for the move to England and wanted to prove himself first in the top Australian league.

After he played on loan at Inglewood United to earn playing time early in 2001, he was admitted to Canberra, with which he departed by mid-2002 in the National Soccer Youth League little later in the Australian Institute of Sport. As of July 2002, the midfielder was again at Perth Glory, had to wait for his competitive debut but until February 2003. After seven operations in the 2002/03 season the hoped-for breakthrough failed to materialize in the following season. Even through his absences with the Australian U- 20 and U -23 he brought it only on four seasonally, as Perth successfully defended the championship title. Neither in the 2-0 final victory against the Olympic Sharks in 2003 in the 2004 final against Parramatta Power (1-0 aet) came Danze used.

After the NSL was discontinued at the end of the 2003/04 season, Danze completed following the Summer Olympic Games a successful month-long trial with the English first division club Crystal Palace and signed a two -year contract. After an insert in the 0-2 defeat in the League Cup against Manchester United at Old Trafford, it was end of December 2003 awarded for a month at the Milton Keynes Dons in the Football League One, his engagement there ended after a second in his use suffered injury but early. Although Palace in the 2004/05 season just relegation in the Premier League and missed was relegated to the Football League Championship, the potential for use for Danze not improved. After a further application in the League Cup, he finally broke in October 2005, his contract with the club early on and returned to Australia.

Back in Perth he played in 2006 temporarily again for Inglewood United, but it was restricted as during his time at Crystal Palace from injury and took an extended break from football, which comprised almost two years in June 2007 by its own account. Perth Glory, now in its founded as NSL follow- League A -League active, Danze nevertheless took for the 2007 /08 season under contract. Furthermore, existing injury problems threw him in the course of the season always come back and resulted in health problems, so that his contract was terminated by mutual consent in December 2007 after eight league inserts again. In 2011 he was part of the contingent of Balcatta SC in the Premier League of Western Australia.

National

With the Australian U- 17 team won the oceanic sovereign Danze 2001 qualifying tournament for the U- 17 World Cup 2001 in Trinidad and Tobago. In the finals, he acted in central midfield alongside Carl Valeri and scored the decisive third round match three goals in a 4-0 win over the Croatian U -17, which he secured his team to the quarter- finals. There, the Nigerian team proved too strong and won 5-1.

Shortly before the U -20 World Championship in 2003 in the United Arab Emirates moved Danze in the U-20 squad by coach Ange Postecoglou, who was responsible at the 2001 U -17 World Cup. The midfielder played three of the four tournament games in Australia, scoring in the last group match in a 3-2 victory against the eventual champions Brazil two hits. Australia subsequently failed in the second round at the team of the host. In the official tournament report he is listed as " outstanding player " of his team next spase Dilevski and " tech-savvy creative midfielder with an eye for the decisive pass at the right time " as described.

In early 2004 Danze missed due to injury, the qualifying tournament for the Olympic football tournament in Greece, belonged in the finals but the squad. He came in three of four tournament games to use, the only time in the starting lineup, he stood in the 0-1 defeat in the quarterfinals against the surprise team from Iraq. While most of his Olympic teammates in the sequence in the Australian A-National Team were used, Danze was denied this step.