Kris Bright

Kris Bright ( born September 5, 1986 in Manukau ) is a New Zealand soccer player. The A -National player of his country is since 2012 the Norwegian Bryne FK under contract. His father Dave Bright was in 1982 in the New Zealand World Cup squad.

Club career

Bright began with the football game at Manurewa AFC in his hometown. With Waitakere City in 2004 he reached the final of the Chatham Cup and was top scorer in the Northern League.

In summer 2005, Bright was taken as one of three prescribed junior players under contract from the A - League club New Zealand Knights next to Sam Jasper and Jeremy Christie and initially passed on Waitakere United. October 27, 2005 Bright was admitted as a replacement for the injured Neil Emblen in the squad. Two days later, he made his league debut for the Knights against the Central Coast Mariners and remained by his performance in the subsequent period part of the first team. By the end of the season, he completed twelve games, including nine as a player in the starting lineup.

In August 2006, he completed a trial with Dutch second division side Fortuna Sittard and finally got a one-year contract. After only one season in which Bright in eleven games only managed a hit, the club management decided not to renew the contract.

A new club he was with the Norwegian third division Kristiansund BK. In his first seven games for the club reach him eleven goals before a broken leg kept him away for half a year from the board. After his return he was his good goal tally from the previous season and confirm finished the season 2008 with twelve hits.

In January 2009, he joined the Greek first division club Panserraikos, released his contract there but in summer 2009 again. In August 2009, he signed a two -year contract with the English fourth division team Shrewsbury Town.

National

Bright came in the U15, U16, U17 and U20 selection of New Zealand used. He took the U-17 participated in the unsuccessful qualifying for the U -17 World Cup in 2003 and failed with the U-20s in qualifying for the Junior World Championships in 2005.

On 19 November 2008, he came in the meaningless last game of the OFC Nations Cup ( and at the same World Cup qualifier ) as a substitute against the Fiji Islands to its first use in the senior national team of New Zealand. His first international goal he scored in March 2009 in a 1-3 defeat in a friendly match against Thailand. In June 2009, Bright was part of the New Zealand squad at the Confederations Cup in South Africa and came at Vorrundenaus to use one.