Noah Hickey

Noah Hickey ( born June 9, 1978 in Auckland ) is a former New Zealand football player.

Club career

Hickey made ​​his debut 15 years old by the New Zealand club Central United. In 1997 he was awarded the New Zealand Young Player of the Year and won with the Central United prestigious Chatham Cup, where he contributed two goals against Dunedin Technical 's 5-0 final victory. In 1999, he joined the newly formed Football Kingz, who participated as a representative of New Zealand at the Australian National Soccer League ( NSL). In 2001 he moved to Finland to Tampere United with whom he won the league title in his first year, and which at that time with Lee Jones was already a New Zealander under contract. There he also saw claims to be most memorable game as he scored the 1-0 winning goal with his hand in the derby against Haka.

He returned back to New Zealand in early 2004 and still played some games for the Football Kingz in the NSL, which was subsequently dissolved. He spent the following months at Waitakere United before he returned in 2005 to the Kingz, which now competed under the name New Zealand Knights in the newly created professional league A-League. In two seasons, he finished with the Knights the last place, in the first season, the team was able to get only 6 points from 21 games.

Since 2007 he plays in a local league for New Zealand Gisborne City.

National

Hickey was in May 1997 with a 0-1 defeat against Papua New Guinea his international debut. In 2003, he took with the New Zealand national team at the Confederations Cup in 2003 partly in France and came in all three group games available for use. After a trip to South America the national team, he announced his retirement from professional sport. He cited, among other things, that the relationship with Ricki Herbert, coach of the national team and the Wellington Phoenix (of which there was to him a contract offer ), while the international duty deteriorated.