Tim Cahill

Cahill after a training session with the national team in 2009

Filiga Timothy " Tim " Cahill ( born December 6, 1979 in Sydney ) is an Australian football player. He currently plays for the New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer and is the current Australian record goalscorer.

Before went to the U.S., he was active in England. There he played for the Millwall FC and Everton FC. He usually plays in central midfield and is a faster player.

Career

Cahill made ​​his debut in the Australian national football team until 2004, because he (now Samoa) had denied at the age of 14 years, two U-20 caps for Western Samoa and thus after the former FIFA rules no longer allowed to play for another nation. Due to a rule change by the player only to A - international matches may no longer play for another national team, he was eligible to play for Australia. 2004 Cahill was voted Oceania Player of the Year, won by Australia the OFC Nations Cup and participated in the Olympic football tournament.

For the season 2004 /05 he moved from FC Millwall, for whom he had played in May 2004, still in the FA Cup final against Manchester United to Everton, where he obtained his first season eleven goals. In the summer of 2005, he took with Australia at the Confederations Cup in Germany in 2005 in part, however, different in the preliminaries of.

On 12 June 2006 he scored in Kaiserslautern in the game against Japan ( 3-1 ), the first two goals for Australia at a World Cup. Cahill came in all four games at the 2006 World Cup for use. Even with the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa, he played for Australia, was in the game against Germany but the red card and was eliminated from the game. After he had served his sentence, he was in the final group game against Serbia again, scoring the opening goal for the Australians. Thus Cahill is a three-goal scorer Australia at a World Cup.

In July 2012, Cahill joined Red Bull New York. The transfer fee was 1.3 million euros. On October 20, 2013 game against Houston Dynamo, he scored the fastest goal in the history of Major League Soccer.

On November 19, 2013, presented by the hits in a 1-0 victory against Costa Rica on the national record by Damian Mori. On March 5, 2014, he scored the 3:4 against Ecuador two more goals and is now the sole Australian scorer.

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