Travis Dodd
Gareth Travis Dodd ( born January 6, 1980 in Adelaide ) is an Australian football player. The offensive player is since 2011 the A- League club Perth Glory under contract. He was the first footballer from the ethnic group of Aborigines who achieved a hit in the Australian national football team.
Club career
Dodd came in 1996 by the South Australian Sports Institute in the National Soccer League ( NSL) to Adelaide City Force and was there at the age of 16 years and 281 days, his league debut. In 1999 he moved to the Newcastle Breakers, but they were already retired from playing the NSL in 2000 and replaced by the newly founded club Newcastle United, with the Dodd also found shelter. The 2003/04 season, the last before the setting of the NSL, he spent at Parramatta Power.
The offensive player then played for a few months in Johor FC in Malaysia before he went to Panionios Athens to Greece. There he came under coach Karol Pecze some inserts in the league and in the UEFA Cup, but played after his release in December under new coach Georgios Vazakas not matter anymore. He then returned back to Australia in 2005 and signed in the newly formed A-League with Adelaide United.
In the opening season he was with Adelaide Master of the regular season, but lost in the play- off matches against Sydney the first major semi-final, and then also the Preliminary Final against the Central Coast Mariners. In May 2007, Dodd succeeded in the AFC Champions League match against Dong Tâm Long An as the first Australians a hat-trick. For the season 2008/ 09 he took over the captaincy of Michael Valkanis and reached Adelaide in the AFC Champions League 2008 Final, in which it was but a chance against Gamba Osaka ( 0:3 and 0:2 ).
With the finals in the Champions League qualifying you for participating in the FIFA Club World Cup 2008. Dodd It succeeded in the opening game against the Ozeanienvertreter Waitakere United the 2-1 victory.
National
Dodd came in 2006 to qualify for the Asia Cup 2007 two appearances in the Australian national team. In his debut against Kuwait, he scored the 1-0 opener and was the first Aborigine, who succeeded in a goal for the Australian national team.
Achievements
- A- League champions the regular season: 2005/ 06
- PFA Team of the Year: 2008/ 09