Nathan Burns

Nathan Joel Burns (born 7 May 1988 in Blayney ) is an Australian football player.

Club career

Burns has played in the 2004/05 season for the Parramatta Eagles in the New South Wales Premier League and signed after some time at the Australian Institute of Sport for the 2006/07 season a professional contract with A- League club Adelaide United. In Adelaide he had developed in his first season top performer was. Together with the Brazilian veteran Fernando computing with six goals within the team 's top scorer and reached with the team the championship final, where they lost after an early dismissal Melbourne Victory with 0:6

After another season at Adelaide joined Burns, who is regarded as one of Australia's largest talents in the summer of 2008 for the Greek first division club AEK Athens, was there at first but can not cope and was only towards the end of the season by Substitutes to five short sessions. For the 2009/10 season AEK it lent to the second division AO Kerkyra, where he was to gain more match practice.

National

Burns took part in 2005 with the Australian U- 17 team at the U - 17 World Cup in Peru, making the Vorrundenaus together with Robbie Kruse in attack. In 2006, he failed with the Young Socceroos, the Australian U-20 national team in the quarter- finals of the U-19 Asia Cup and thus failed to qualify for the 2007 World Junior Championships.

Between 2007 and 2008, Burns was a regular in the squad of the Australian Olympic team (U -23), found for the Olympic football tournament in China in 2008 but like his earlier team-mate in Adelaide, Bruce Djite, surprisingly not taken into account in the team of coach Graham Arnold. To his international debut in the Australian A team of offensive athlete came in June 2007 in a friendly match against Singapore when he was a substitute just before the end for Mark Viduka.