Brad McDonald
McDonald before a game for Fury (2010)
James Bradley "Brad" McDonald (born 17 February 1990 in Kudijip, Papua New Guinea) is an Australian football player who came to 26 missions in the A-League from 2010 to 2013 for North Queensland Fury and the Central Coast Mariners.
Career
Born in Papua New Guinea, the son of a local woman and an Australian McDonald grew over the first five years of his life in Mount Hagen, before the family moved to Brisbane Australia. There, McDonald attended from 2005 to 2006, the Queensland Academy of Sport and later played for Brisbane City in Brisbane Premier League before the season 2008/ 09 together with Mitch Bevan and Josh McVey as one of three City players for the youth team of Queensland Roar has been committed for the inaugural National Youth League. After a season for the junior team he joined for the 2010 season in the Queensland State League for the Brisbane Strikers, where the Lance as a fitness trainer McDonald developed on the left side of the service provider.
After three goals in 20 appearances for the Strikers and just before the championship finals, he was by Stuart McClaren, assistant coach at A- League club North Queensland Fury and previously coach at the Brisbane Strikers, in preparation for the season 2010/ 11 for Tryout invited. Here, McDonald also convinced head coach František Straka and received a one-year contract as a professional. In Fury he came predominantly left-back during the season to 25 inserts, the performances of the teams broke but in the second half of the season, when the signs increased that the club will not persist over the end of the season also. After the season North Queensland permit withdrawn due to financial problems and McDonald returned to the Brisbane Strikers back around fitzuhalten in the semi-professional State League.
In April 2011, he was presented by the Central Coast Mariners, together with Adriano Pellegrino as a new signing for the A- League season 2011/12 and received a one-year contract. McDonald was in his first season for the Mariners without obligation stake in the professional team, but came regularly in the left midfield for the junior team in the National Youth League action, winning the league title there. In February 2012, he extended his contract for another year. In the 2012/13 season, he came on the final day of the regular season against Melbourne Heart for the first time in a competitive match for the Mariners to use, this was also his only league use of the season. His team-mates won in sequence by a 2-0 win against the Western Sydney Wanderers the Australian Championship. McDonald was also in the AFC Champions League 2013 against Guizhou Renhe to a short-term use. After his contract expired, he joined in mid -2013, the Central Coast Mariners Academy, the farm team of the Mariners.
In October 2011, McDonald was appointed surprisingly Aurelio Vidmar in the Australian U -23 and sat in a qualifying match for the 2012 Olympics against Uzbekistan on the bench. Previously, he had been contacted by Frank Farina, coach of the national team of Papua New Guinea, for which he was also eligible to play according to FIFA rules, for a dressing change, however, would McDonald 's Australian citizenship take what this date would not.