Joshua Brillante

Brilliant as a player of the Australian U -20 ( 2013)

Joshua " Josh " Brilliant (* March 25 1993 in Bundaberg ) is an Australian football player.

Career

Brilliant played the majority of his youth for the Across the Waves SC in his home town of Bundaberg. Early on Brillante has been identified as one of the greatest talents of his region and was regularly to state selection team. He was awarded the Wide Bay Primary Sports Person of the Year, after leading the school selection of Queensland to a shared first place in the National School Championships in 2005. In 2008 he played with Bundaberg Spirit in the Queensland State League and won the year progresses with Across the Waves the championship in the Bundaberg Premier League; the 15-year old Brillante also received this award as Bundaberg Junior Player of the Year. The following year he moved to Brisbane for a scholarship at the Queensland Academy of Sport perceive before he was recruited by the newly formed A- League club Gold Coast United to their youth team.

With the junior team of coach Mike Mulvey Brilliant won the championship in 2010 and 2011 in the National Youth League, in 2010 he also received the club house award as Youth Star of the Future. To his debut in the Australian professional league came Brillante under coach Miron Bleiberg on December 1, 2010, when he moved after several injury- related losses in the 1-2 defeat against North Queensland Fury at right-back in the starting lineup. Brilliant, who calls as the sporty model and Harry Kewell is versatile and can be in midfield, was a further use until end of season. After he trained in the season break with the senior squad, escalated in the season 2011/12, its operating times, also favored that the club owner greatly restricted its financial support and they were forced to increasingly rely on young players. This led, among other things, that Brilliant as part of the youngest team in the league history earned a 3-3 draw against the league leaders Central Coast Mariners in February 2012. After Gold Coast United's owner has been deprived of his license during the current season and the season was completed under the direction of the Australian Association, this sparked the team to finish the season.

In season break Brillante signed, as well as his team-mates James Brown and Mitch Cooper, a contract with the Newcastle United Jets.

For levy of the Australian U -20 team was brilliant for the first time in August 2011 as part of the SBS Cup in Japan and was later in the year the qualifying tournament for the U-19 Asian Cup 2012 for the squad.