Jeremy Christie
Jeremy Christie (born 22 May 1983; Whangarei ) is a New Zealand soccer player. The midfielder plays for the New Zealand national team.
Club career
Christie was established in 2000 jointly committed with his compatriot David Mulligan from the English club Barnsley FC and was on 16 January 2002 in the FA Cup his competitive debut for the club. After a further application in the league Christie returned to New Zealand and played until 2004 with the Football Kingz in the Australian National Soccer League. After setting the NSL in 2004, he played at Onehunga Sports and then for Waitakere United before he 2005 on the Kingz, which have now been renamed the New Zealand Knights, returned and played in the Professional League A -League newly established. After a disastrous season (6 points from 21 games ) Christie moved to Premier League rivals Perth Glory. Again, a year later, he joined the newly formed A- League club Wellington Phoenix. After his contract expired in 2009, he received no new offer from Phoenix.
After he graduated at the turn of 2009/2010 six league games for Waitakere United, before he moved to the United States to the newly founded team Tampa Bay Rowdies, which has its gaming operations in the USSF D2 Pro League.
National
Christie played for the U17, U20 and U23 selection of the New Zealand Association. With the U17, he took part in 1999 as captain of the U17 World Cup in their own country.
In 2005 he made his debut against Australia in the New Zealand national team. In 2009 he participated with the New Zealand selection at the Confederations Cup in South Africa. A year later at the Football World Cup 2010, which also took place in South Africa. In the first group match, a 1-1 draw against Slovakia he came on in the 78th minute for Ivan Vicelich. In the second group match, a 1-1 draw against Italy, he was also off the bench: 81 minutes he came again for Ivan Vicelich the fray. In the third and final group game, a 0-0 draw against Paraguay, he did not play. In the end, he resigned from New Zealand with three points and undefeated in the group stage.