James Jeggo

Jeggo wearing the jersey of Melbourne Victory ( 2012)

James Alexander Jeggo (* February 12, 1992 in Vienna) is an Australian football player.

Career

Jeggo was born in 1992 in the Austrian capital Vienna and began at the age of four or five years with the football game. At the age of ten he moved with his family to Australia. There he first played in the junior area of ​​the Green Gully SC, before his football education at the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS ) was continued. At the age of 16 years Jeggo was sidelined for almost a year with the football after a Hodgkin 's lymphoma had been diagnosed with. The disease was successfully treated with an eight-month chemotherapy in the Melbourne Royal Children 's Hospital.

In 2010 he was admitted to the junior team of professional clubs Melbourne Victory, with which he departed in the National Youth League under the name VTC Football in the Victorian Premier League. Although he had suffered a broken ankle before the start of the season and was only able to participate in the last few games of the season, he received his first contract for the senior team in March 2011. In the professional team he made his debut under coach Mehmet Durakovic November 12, 2011 by Substitutes with the Central Coast Mariners. Durakovic had Jeggo currently serves on the VIS and those invited to his cancer, mitzutrainieren after his recovery at Melbourne. His breakthrough came the midfielder but only after Durakovic dismissal under his successor Jim Magilton, who deliberately set up youth players. Jeggo was in the last seven games of the 2011/12 season in the midfield headquarters of Victory in the starting lineup. On the penultimate day followed by shot to 3-0 against Wellington Phoenix his first competitive goal in the professional sector. Melbourne Victory missed at the end of season play-offs significantly; Jeggo was named best young player and the best player of the Youth Team at the end of the 2011/12 season and also highlighted in the Australian media as one of the few positive Erscheindung in Victory's season.

The services of the central midfielder did not go unnoticed and the Australian Association of U -23 coach Aurelio Vidmar he was in March 2012 for the last game in the qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games for the first time appointed to the Australian U-23 National Team, Australia had already but no chance to qualify at this time for the tournament. Jeggo but had to cancel due to a knee injury, his participation in the game.