Nick Carle

Nicholas "Nick" Carle ( born November 23, 1981 in Sydney ) is an Australian football player of Chilean descent. Carle was voted the best player in the A-League in 2007 and then sought a career in Europe. His older brother Leo Carle is also a footballer.

Club career

Carle came as 15 -year-old Sydney Olympic in the highest Australian league, the National Soccer League ( NSL), are used. By early 2002, the midfielder completed 86 games for Sydney, before he made ​​the jump to Europe. He signed a contract with the French first division ES Troyes AC and came in the second half of the season 2001 /02 to five inserts. In the following season Carle only played in the reserve team of the club and left end of the season Troyes. He returned to Australia and joined there the Marconi Stallions, for which he, after the collapse of the NSL in the summer of 2004, in the New South Wales played Premier League.

With the establishment of the Australian professional league A-League, he signed a contract with the Newcastle United Jets. He qualified in both years at Newcastle for the championship finals, the finals but did not succeed. In the season 2006/ 07 Carle was chosen by the players in the A-League 's best player and won the Johnny Warren Medal. As a result, he had several offers from Turkey and eventually switched for about AU $ 650,000 to Gençlerbirliği Ankara. Just six months later, he signed with the English second division club Bristol City. There, the technically -studded midfield quickly established itself as a regular player and missed the promotion to the Premier League narrowest of margins. During the summer break obliged him the League rival Crystal Palace for a million pounds.

Carle returns after 4 years in Europe to Australia to his home, to join the Australian first division club Sydney FC.

National

Carle played with the Australian U- 17 team at the oceanic qualifying tournament for the U-17 World Cup in 1997, where you failed in the final of the New Zealand team with 0:1 and thus missed the finals. In 2001 he played with the U- 20 at the Junior World Championships in Argentina and arrived there until the last sixteen. For the Australian Olympic selection Carle came between 1998 and 2004 used regularly, but was neither in 2000 nor in 2004 appointed to the squad for the Olympic tournament.

His first try at the Australian national team, he completed early in 2004 against Venezuela, but was then no longer considered a number of years. It was not until his performances in the A-League in 2007 brought him some more vocations. Carle belonged to the 30-man provisional squad of Australia for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, not made ​​it into the final 23 player squad but comprehensive.

Awards

• Johnny Warren Medal: 2006/ 07
• A-League Goal of the Year: 2006/ 07
• Nomination in the PFA Team of the Year: 2011/12 ( bench )