Vaughan Coveny

Vaughan Coveny ( born December 13, 1971 in Wellington ) is a former New Zealand football player. Coveny 's top scorer of the New Zealand national football team.

Club career

Coveny began his active career at two local clubs in New Zealand and moved to Australia in 1992 in the National Soccer League ( NSL). After seasons at Melbourne CSC and the Wollongong City Wolves he played from 1995 for South Melbourne. In addition to two Australian Championships, the striker with South Melbourne won by a 5-1 win over the Fijian representatives Nadi FC and the Oceania Club Championship in 1999; Coveny was once a successful scorer in the final. With the victory, the team for the FIFA Club World Cup 2000 in Brazil qualified. In the three games against Manchester United, Necaxa and CR Vasco da Gama came to Coveny part inserts each.

After setting the NSL in 2004, he remained in the Victorian Premier League, first in South Melbourne, as he had be no offer of an A - League clubs. Only in the course of the first season he was obliged on loan from Newcastle United Jets. After four goals in a total of ten missions, he received the next season a permanent contract at Newcastle. The 2006/ 07 was initially rather disappointing for Coveny, in the regular season get him just three goals in 18 games. In the finals his goal helped in the return match against Sydney the Jets to reach the Preliminary Finals, where he won against Adelaide United to the 1-1 equalizer. In the ensuing penalty shoot you failed to 3:4, whereby Coveny was under the false shooters.

For the 2007/08 season he signed in his home town of a two-year contract with the newly formed New Zealand professional team Wellington Phoenix. After only sporadic operations in the second season at Wellington in 2009 he declared his retirement from professional football and returned to Australia to South Melbourne.

National

Coveny debuted in the New Zealand national team in June 1992 in a match against Fiji in 1995 and moved to the root formation. In 1998 he won with a 1-0 victory over Australia with the New Zealand selection the OFC Nations Cup. 1999 and 2003, he graduated from New Zealand for all six games at the Confederations Cup. Overall, he came in the course of his national career on 64 A- international caps and 28 hits. Since Coveny never played in Europe - at sample training with Celtic Glasgow (1992 ) and the Watford FC (1994 ) he fell through - he was the national team regular basis. His last international games, he completed during the European tour in summer 2006. He helped the New Zealand selection with two goals in a 3-1 win against Georgia for the first victory on European soil and ended his career after the friendly match against the then reigning world champions Brazil on 4 June 2006.

Achievements

At club level:

  • Australian champion: 1997/ 98, 1998/99
  • Oceania Club Championship: 1999
  • Participation in the Club World Cup: 2000

At national level:

  • OFC Nations Cup: 1998
  • Participation in the Confederations Cup: 1999, 2003

Individual:

  • New Zealand Young Player of the Year: 1992
  • New Zealand Player of the Year: 2004
  • Record international match scorer with 28 goals in New Zealand
Miramar Rangers Melbourne Knights FC South Melbourne FC Wellington Phoenix FC Melbourne Victory FC 1999 Oceania Club Championship 2000 FIFA Club World Championship Manchester United F.C. National Premier Leagues Victoria A-League 2005–06 A-League Watford F.C.
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