Jamie Harnwell

Jamie Richard Harnwell ( born July 21, 1977 in Perth ) is an Australian football player. The high-scoring center-back played, apart from minor interruptions, from 1998 to 2011 for the Australian club Perth Glory.

Career

Harnwell began his career in the adult population in the Western Australia Premier League and played from 1996 to 1998 at the Sorrento FC and Kingsway Olympic, before moving to Perth Glory in the National Soccer League ( NSL). With the financially powerful club, he reached in 2000 for the first time the championship final, in front of a record crowd of over 43,000 spectators to the Wollongong Wolves but was defeated with 6:7 on penalties. Two years later he was with the team around the two top striker Bobby Despotovski and Damian Mori in the final, winning the title, however, was missed again by a 0-1 defeat against the Olympic Sharks. In 2003 he was the third championship final for Harnwell in four years, in a 2-0 win against the Sharks, he brought his team after 27 minutes on the clock before Mori produced the scoring shortly before the game ends.

In summer 2003, Harnwell made ​​the jump to Europe and completed a trial with English fourth division Leyton Orient, who eventually offered him a short-term contract for a month. After only three inserts him was this not renewed in September and Harnwell returned, after a short stay in the English Amateur camp at Welling United to Perth Glory back and won at the end of the season his second Australian title. After the NSL stopped their game operation in the summer of 2004, he stayed in the sequence in Sorrento fit, before he was taken with the establishment of the professional Major League A-League Perth Glory back under contract.

To kick off the season 2005/ 06 Harnwell got the captaincy, which he however had to cede to the 2007/08 season to Simon Colosimo. Although actually central defender, he was ordered during the season 2006/ 07 by coach Ron Smith in the storm and was one of seven season hits for the best scorers in the A-League, as well as a season later, when he scored eight goals. Due to the early season end of the Australian Football League, he joined in early 2008 on loan for half a year to Liechtenstein FC Vaduz and came to twelve missions, as the club for the first time realized the rise in the Axpo Super League.

Since the 2008/ 09 season Harnwell plays in central defense from Perth, first time in 2010 after qualifying for the final round of the A-League. In 2011 he finished after 256 league games for Perth his professional career, after he had received no new contract offer from Perth Glory. For the 2011 season, he returned to Sorrento back to the Western Australia Premier League. In 2012, he won the championship of Sorrento Western Australia, in the final he saved his team in stoppage time the deficit to 2-2 in extra time, there is his team then continued through 4-3.

Since 2011, Harnwell has also worked as coach of the women's team Perth Glory in the W- League and commented parts of the A-League for Fox Sports as a co- commentator.

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