Connor Pain

Pain as a player of the U-20 National Team (2013 )

Connor Thomas Pain (born 11 November 1993, Hong Kong) is an Australian football player.

Club career

Pain, whose grandfather Tommy Casey with Northern Ireland in 1958 took part in the World Cup and with Newcastle United won the FA Cup, grew up to the age of eight on Hong Kong. Subsequently, the family moved into the Australian Melbourne. There he played in the youth field at Beaumaris and North Caufield. His first steps in adult sizes made ​​Pain from 2010 when unterklassigen Melbourne Club Malvern City before he played in the 2012 season for the Bentleigh Greens in the Victorian Premier League.

For the 2012/13 season he was bound for the youth team of professional clubs Melbourne Victory and won with the team the championship of the National Youth League. To his debut in the professional team, the Pain regularly watched in his youth in the stadium, the left winger came on February 2, 2013 in the city derby against Melbourne Heart. Coach Ange Postecoglou sat in the row on the young player and a month after his debut Pain signed his first professional contract.

National

Pains development at Melbourne Victory also caused interest in the Australian federation. From U-20 national team coach Paul Okon Pain was in May 2013 for the first time invited in view of the U- 20 World Cup in a training camp and made shortly after his international debut in a friendly match against the offspring of the Netherlands also the leap into the World Cup squad. In the final competition in Turkey Pain came in all three group games used, Australia but failed here with only one point win as Table in the first round.

In July 2013 Pain was appointed coach Holger Osieck National in a training camp of the Australian national team and eventually nominated for the East Asia Championship 2013. After he had not come in the first game to use, he returned before the second group game temporarily to Australia to play during a friendly match against Liverpool with Victory can. In the last tournament game against China ( Full 3:4 ) Pain debuted on July 28, 2013 by Substitutes in the Australian national team.