Clint Bolton
Clint Bolton (2009)
Clint Brian Bolton ( born August 22, 1975 in Bundaberg, Queensland) is an Australian football player. The goalkeeper won four Australian Championship title, two of them in the National Soccer League ( NSL ), in which he played a total of 300 league games, and two with the Sydney FC in the follow- League A-League.
Club career
NSL
Bolton began his career in 1993 in the NSL at the Brisbane Strikers. He completed 178 league appearances in his seven years in Brisbane and was established in 1997 with the club Australian Masters. In 2000, he signed with league rivals Sydney Olympic with whom he could repeat this success in 2002. One year later he was with Olympic in the final of the Australian Championship, but lost against Perth Glory. He then moved to Parramatta Power, with whom he also reached the championship final, but again failed to Perth Glory. This finale was also the last game of the NSL, which was subsequently dissolved. Overall Bolton played in the NSL 300 games. To keep fit Bolton moved first to Fraser Park, some time later to the APIA Leichhardt Tigers.
A-League
With the establishment of the professional league A-League Bolton wrote in 2005 under a contract with Sydney FC. Even before the start of the season he could with his new club by winning the OFC Champions Cup celebrate his first success. The season also ran successfully. In the championship final of the inaugural season one defeated the Central Coast Mariners 1-0, also one was allowed to start by winning the Champions Cup for the FIFA Club World Championship in 2005, in which they finished 5th. Of the players Bolton was elected on the end of season "Player of the Year." As a master it was after the passage of the Australian Football Association, the Asian zone in the AFC Champions League 2007 allowed to start and failed there just to eventual winners Urawa Red Diamonds in the group stage. On 1 January 2007 Bolton remained in the fifth league game in a row without conceding a goal, setting a new league record. In the three seasons after winning the title success came from, only in the season 2009/10 they moved under new coach Vítězslav Lavička again in the Grand Final and there defeated in a penalty shootout rivals Melbourne Victory. For Bolton, the final match was also his last competitive game for Sydney since he moved to the newly created team Melbourne Heart for the season 2010/11. For Melbourne he was in the first two seasons goalkeeper of Melbourne and twice won the club house award as player of the year. At the turn of 2012/2013 he lost his place after a series of defeats at Andrew Redmayne and received at the end of the season, no new contract offer.
National
Bolton, in 1995, with the U-20 national team at the Junior World Championships in Qatar in part. At the start of the tournament, he was second goalkeeper behind Les Pogliacomi, but came to his injury in the second preliminary round game to score and remained until the off in the quarterfinals goalkeeper. The Australian Olympic Team Bolton graduated five games between 1995 and 1996, but was not considered for the Olympic tournament in 1996.
His debut in the Australian national team gave Bolton in 2000 in a friendly match against Paraguay in the World Cup Qualifiers 2002 he came to Fiji and Tonga to two other stakes. 2001 nominated Frank Farina the goalkeeper for the Confederations Cup, but did not put it on. It took until August 2006 before he came to his fourth and so far last use. In a qualifying match for the Asia Cup 2007 against Kuwait Bolton remained in his fourth international match without conceding a goal.
Achievements
With its clubs
- A- League champions: 2005/ 06, 2009/10 ( with the Sydney FC )
- NSL champions: 1996 /97 ( with the Brisbane Strikers ), 2001 /02 ( with Sydney Olympic)
- OFC Champions Cup winner: 2005 ( with the Sydney FC )
Individual Awards
- Sydney FC ' Player of the Year ": 2005/ 06
- Melbourne Heart "Player of the Year": 2010/ 11, 2011/12
- A-League ' Goal Keeper of the Year ": 2005/ 06
- Nomination in the PFA Team of the Year: 2011/12 ( bench )