Ben Sigmund

Benjamin "Ben" Sigmund ( born February 3, 1981 in Blenheim ) is a New Zealand soccer player. He takes over for the A - League club Wellington Phoenix.

Club career

2001 Sigmund played for Christchurch City and reached the semi-finals with the club at the Chatham Cup. It was used in a lot of the National Soccer League clubs on the part of the New Zealand Football Kingz 2002. Over the next three years are no data on 2005/ 06 he played for Canterbury United, in 2006, he moved to Auckland City, where he played the following two years ( during the summer break in 2007 he stayed at Fawkner Blues fit ). He took some doing, among other things at the FIFA Club World Cup 2006, after two defeats came in last place at the Auckland.

In the season 2006/ 07 he won with Auckland, the New Zealand Cup and stood in the 3-2 final win over Waitakere United in the grid. End of November 2007, he was elected " NZFC player of the year".

In April 2008 he signed his first professional contract with the New Zealand A- League club Wellington Phoenix.

National

Sigmund took part in 1997 with the New Zealand U- 17 team at the U -17 World Cup in Egypt and came at Vorrundenaus two appearances.

In 2000 he made ​​his debut in the New Zealand national team against Oman. Only in May 2008, he was appointed to the national squad again against Wales. He was subsequently during the OFC Nations Cup 2008 winning squad and qualified by the success of the Confederations Cup in 2009 and also for the play-off against the Asian representatives to the FIFA World Cup 2010. His first international goal succeeded in September 2008 in a 3-1 win over New Caledonia.

Achievements

• New Zealand Champion: 2007
• OFC Nations Cup winner: 2008