Danny Hay

Daniel " Danny" Hay ( born May 15, 1975 in Auckland ) is a former New Zealand football player. The central defender played in the course of his career at clubs in New Zealand, Australia and England and graduated 31 internationals for the New Zealand national team.

Club career

Hay began his career in New Zealand, where he was named 1996 Young Player of the Year, before he moved to Australia to Perth Glory in 1997. In his two seasons with Perth Glory, he received the Most Glorious Player award in each case. In 1999 he moved for a transfer fee of £ 200,000 to the English first division club Leeds United. There he came only in the 2000/ 01 season to four league operations, including in the 4-3 victory against Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool. In summer 2002, Hay moved free transfer to the English second division side FC Walsall, before he returned in early 2004 " for personal reasons " to New Zealand.

The Football Kingz, where he graduated in itself, under the name of New Zealand Knights participated as the only New Zealand team at the Senior League A - League 2005. As captain started the season, he had a falling out in November with management and left the club in January 2006 and played the rest of the season with Perth Glory.

With Waitakere United in 2006 he found a new club with which he could see the inaugural OFC Champions League win against FC Ba once and although it was only a starting place by the retreat of vanuatischen representative. The crucial final second leg but he missed due to injury. He captained his team at the FIFA Club World Cup 2007 on the field, but had to be in the group match the Asian representatives Sepahan with 1:3 beaten. 2008, the success in the Champions League could be repeated. In the finals, you sit down after a 1:3 first leg defeat in the return leg against Kossa FC by 5-0. He also captained Waitakere United to first win the New Zealand Cup. In the finals they defeated Team Wellington 2-0.

National

Hay debuted in 1998 in the senior national team of New Zealand. In the same year he won the national selection OFC Nations Cup with a 1-0 victory over Australia. Previously, Hay had reached the semi-final against Fiji 's 1-0 winning goal. In 2003 he took part in the New Zealand Confederations Cup in France. He arrived at Vorrundenaus his team to two inserts. In 2006 he was appointed captain, but resigned a year later from the national team in order to advance his career.