Michael Beauchamp

Beauchamp wearing the jersey of the Australian National

Michael Francis Beauchamp ( born March 8, 1981 in Sydney ) is an Australian football player.

Career

Association

In the young and changing history of the Australian professional football Beauchamp played since 2000 for various clubs of his hometown of Sydney. With the establishment of the A-League, in which the new professional football in Australia focused on eight teams, he joined the Central Coast Mariners, which are located in 70 km north of Sydney located Gosford. Beauchamp was a regular in the defense and came up with the team to the play-off final, where they lost to Sydney FC.

In 2006, Michael Beauchamp of the football magazine FourFourTwo was elected unofficially Australian Footballer of the Year.

For the season 2006/ 07 Beauchamp was loaned along with his teammate Dean Heffernan from the Mariners to the 1st FC Nuremberg in the Bundesliga. His Bundesliga debut, he was able to celebrate the game in Cottbus against energy on 24 September 2006. In the second round he then became a regular in the defense came in the season to 18 sessions. His first Bundesliga goal he scored in the return match against Cottbus on 18 February 2007. His regular place he lost but at the start of the following season again, and only in the second half of the first round he came back regularly to use and has also been used three times in the UEFA Cup. After the Club for the winter break again found the relegation zone and the coach moved, Beauchamp was not considered in the second half for the squad. At the end of the season 2007/ 08 the descent of the 1st FC Nuremberg was in the 2nd Bundesliga.

In June 2008, the club announced the departure of the Danish first division club Aalborg Beauchamps Boldspilklub. In addition to its league operations he came in his first year to play in the Champions League qualifiers, two games in the Champions League and four games in the UEFA Cup. In the first Champions League game for his new club Beauchamp was tried for an emergency brake off. However, not he but his team-mate Michael Jakobsen committed the foul, with referee Matteo Trefoloni then made ​​this mistake. In the summer he moved after a year at Al- Jazira Club back to his Australian home to Melbourne Heart. For the season 2011/12 undertook the Sydney FC Beauchamp, however, received after the season by new coach Ian Crook no contract extension.

In June 2012, gave the Western Sydney Wanderers, who were only a few months previously established, the obligation of Beauchamp announced in September he was appointed first captain of the new club.

National

On 22 February 2006 Beauchamp made ​​his debut in the Australian national football team, after he had ever stood in the 2004 Olympic team. Coach Guus Hiddink also nominated him as one of only two A-League players for the World Cup 2006.

Statistics

Title / successes

  • Runner up in the National Soccer League 2004 with Parramatta Power
  • Runner-up in the Australian A- League 2006 with the Central Coast Mariners
  • DFB Cup winner in 2007 with the 1.FC Nuremberg
Defender (association football) Parramatta Power SC Central Coast Mariners FC Aalborg Boldspilklub al-Jazira Club Melbourne Heart FC Western Sydney Wanderers FC
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