Glen Moss

Moss in the jersey of Wellington Phoenix (2009)

Glen Moss ( born January 19, 1983 in Hastings ) is a New Zealand soccer player. The goalkeeper stands since 2012 at Wellington Phoenix under contract and also plays for the New Zealand national team.

Club career

Moss played the first years of his career in regional leagues in Australia. In 2005 he moved to the A-League club New Zealand Knights and arrived there on 9 inserts. In summer 2006 he held so convincingly in a friendly match with the New Zealand national team against Brazil, he was immediately taken by the Romanian club Dinamo Bucharest under contract. After a year and only three compulsory stakes (two of them in the qualification for the UEFA Cup ) Moss returned to New Zealand and joined the local professional club Wellington Phoenix. There he was in direct competition with Mark Paston, who is also his greatest adversary to the place in the national team. While Moss was able to establish himself as first-choice goalkeeper at Wellington, was in the national team Paston preference.

For the season 2009/10 Moss moves to Premier League rivals Melbourne Victory. There he sat down in the preseason first against Mitchell Langerak in the battle for position in the goal through, but lost that after the 14th matchday of the younger competitors.

In July 2010, Moss signed a two year contract with Gold Coast United, where he replaced the migrated Jess Vanstrattan.

In 2012 he moved back to Wellington Phoenix, where he had to fight for the space between the posts again with Mark Paston. The first season watching Moss mostly from the bench. After Paston ended his career on the 2013/2014 season to go, Glen Moss was promoted to the first goalkeeper of the team.

National

His debut in the national team was in 2006 against Malaysia Moss, 2009, he took over as first-choice goalkeeper at the Confederations Cup in South Africa in part and completed 3 games. After he received a red card for insulting referee in the World Cup qualifier against Fiji in 2010, he was banned for four matches of the tournament. This ensured that he could not participate in the first two group matches in the final round. Nevertheless, coach Ricki Herbert nominated him, but he came to no use, since its long -time rival Mark Paston also in the final group game against Paraguay was after good performances between the posts.