Chris Coyne

Coyne during a training session with the national team (2008)

Christopher John " Chris " Coyne ( born December 20, 1978 in Brisbane ) is an Australian football player. The seven-time Australian national team completed during a 13 - year stay in the UK 325 Official matches, most of which was for Luton Town in unterklassigen English football. From 2009 to 2012, he was active in Australia for Perth Glory and played there from time to time together with his brother Jamie.

Club career

Chris Coyne's father John was a professional footballer in England and came to Australia in the late 1970s, where he even made it to some missions in the Australian national team. Coyne grew up in New South Wales, where he was also trained by his father, 15 - year old, he moved with his family to Western Australia and played in sequence in the youth field for the Sorrento FC and Kingsway Olympic and adult range for the Perth SC in the top division of the state. On New Year 1996 Coyne joined for £ 150,000 transfer fee of Perth for English club West Ham United and first played in the youth team of the club. On the side of Rio Ferdinand and David Partridge he was in the final of the FA Youth Cup in 1996, which they lost to the next generation of Liverpool FC.

At the beginning of the 1998/99 season Coyne was awarded for a month to the fourth division Brentford FC to earn playing time and came as the representative of Danny Cullip to a total of eight missions. After his return continues in West Ham's reserve team active, followed in April 1999, a further Leihaufenthalt in Viertklassigkeit at Southend United. After only a week and a mission however, he was recalled by Harry Redknapp for Injury failures to West Ham. On 1 May 1994 Coyne arrived at the 1:5 defeat by Leeds United, in which three West Ham players of the field were referred, by Substitutes in the 83rd minute on his debut in the Premier League. This was also his only duty stake for the first team, in which he was not able to compete against rivals such as Rio Ferdinand, Neil Ruddock, Steve Potts and Ian Pearce.

With the impending expiry of his contract in the summer of 2000 to give him a free transfer free transfer to FC Dundee in the Scottish Premier League was made possible in March 2000. At Dundee he came, but only after the summer break to use and established itself in the second half of the season in central defense. Dundee closed the 2000/01 season in sixth place in the table, causing the club to the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2001 and qualified for the first time took part again in an international competition since 1974. Coyne came to the season opener in the Intertoto Cup games against FK Sartid (0:0 and 2:5 ) are used, lost his place but already early in the season and joined in September 2000 for a transfer fee of £ 50,000 to the English fourth division Luton Town.

There he established himself immediately under manager Joe Kinnear in central defense alongside Russell Perrett, as the club than in second behind Plymouth Argyle sovereign the immediate return in the third division succeeded. Also a league higher had Coyne, who bribed particular by its Zweifkampfqualitäten on the ground and in the air as well as through his leadership qualities, no adjustment difficulties and was elected at the end of the season 2002/ 03 by the supporters of the club "Player of the Year." During a takeover episode by businessman John Guerney in the summer of 2003, Kinnear was fired and replaced by Mike Newell, under the Luton with Coyne as a regular force in 2005 as Master of the Football League One in the Football League Championship climb. Coyne was involved in this success not only by its defensive performance, but also contributed with five goals at standard situation for a successful season in history. For his achievements Coyne was rather unusual for a defensive player, league internally as Player of the Month April 2005 excellent and at the end of the season - with five other Luton players ( Marlon Beresford, Curtis Davies, Ahmet Brković, Kevin Nicholls and Steve Howard) - in the elected League team of the Year in the Professional Footballers' Association. In the following two seasons in the second division Coyne was plagued by increasing injury problems, while he still was in season 2005/ 06 on 30 of 46 possible missions and Luton played along temporarily for promotion to the Premier League, it was enough for the following season to only 18 games as the club the class could no longer hold.

A division fell deeper Luton soon in financial problems and eventually had to open insolvency proceedings in November 2007. In addition to a point deduction, which until 2009 led down the club in the Fünftklassigkeit, they were also forced service providers to sell. Therefore Coyne moved to over 250 appearances for Luton in January 2008 to relegation second division club Colchester United, who set a club record transfer internal with a transfer fee of 350,000 pounds. Also Coyne Contribute could not stop for Coyne was the second relegation from the Championship within a year of the descent of Colchester as severed Table. For the 2008/09 season Coyne was appointed captain, but was infrequently used. Due to injury problems, but also regular nominations by the Australian national team, for which he came between June 2008 and June 2009 to seven international appearances and the absolute in his priority enjoyed over his club, and a coaching change at Colchester (Paul Lambert replaced Geraint Williams) was he often planned only as a substitute.

After 18 months, the players and the club agreed in the summer of 2009 to a premature termination of the contract and Coyne returned after 13 years back in the British Isles to Australia. There he joined the A- League club Perth Glory, which he had already mentioned several times over the years in interviews as a possible future station and in which his brother Jamie Coyne was under contract. Perth missed since the founding of the League in 2005 four times in a row to participate in the play-offs, first with Coyne as well as the two newly committed Australian national team Jacob Burns and Mile Sterjovski succeeded in the 2009/10 season for the first time qualifying for the Championship play- offs. There the team but failed in the first match on penalties at the New Zealand league affiliate Wellington Phoenix.

In order to maintain his chances of a World Cup Nominations, Coyne moved in March 2010 on loan to the Chinese first division club Liaoning Hongyun. However, the hoped-for consideration for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa remained from Coyne and prolonged his stay in China for a few weeks. The original plan to return to the start of the season in early August to Perth, but was zunichtegemacht suddenly, as unexpectedly return until January 1, 2011, possible transfer of legal reasons. Coyne missed so much of the A-League 2010/11 season and injured himself shortly after his return to the Achilles tendon and fell thereby have denied without a season game for Perth until season's end. Perth Glory finished the season, meanwhile, on second from bottom. After nearly 20 months without a competitive game for Perth he gave at the beginning of the 2011/12 season his comeback and stood at six of the first seven games in central defense alongside Bas van den Brink in the starting lineup. On the 7th matchday Coyne moved in the away game against Melbourne Victory shortly before the end of an Achilles tendon injury to and fell for the remainder of the season from the Perth Glory for the first time the championship final of the A-League reached (1:2 against Brisbane Roar ). Shortly after the end of the season, the club announced that Coyne's contract is not renewed.

National

Coyne was in 1995 as a man-marker to the Australian team at the U- 17 World Championship in Ecuador, which was defeated in the quarterfinals of the Brazilian selection with 1:3. In the years 1999 and 2000, Coyne was in preparation for the Olympic football tournament for the levy of the Olympic team. The jump in the final 18 -man tournament squad by coach Raul Blanco missed Coyne, however, and rejected with reference to his duties for his club FC Dundee nominated as a standby player from.

After Coyne 2005, a request of the Irish Association of negative summoned for the purpose of dressing changes, he was invited in May 2008 unexpectedly at the age of 29 years of national coach Pim Verbeek in a training camp of the Australian senior national teams. His long cherished dream to play for the Australian national team eventually went a month later fulfilled when he made ​​his international debut in the World Cup qualifier against Iraq. In the following twelve months, four more missions joined in the successful World Cup qualifying and two appearances in friendlies. Blessed he was especially for his performance in central defense alongside Lucas Neill in the 1-0 away win against Uzbekistan in the first game of the decisive World Cup qualifying round.

Although Verbeek Coyne in September 2008 publicly suggesting a change of club and Coyne hoping to focus more sharply into focus by his move to the A-League, remained after his return from additional nominations. Also the change to China did not improve his situation and he was not taken in the World Cup squad. A few months later, Coyne was not even on a comprehensive 50 player provisional list of the new national team coach Holger Osieck with regard to the Asia Cup 2011.