Wayne O'Sullivan
Wayne St John O'Sullivan ( born February 25, 1974 in Akrotiri, Cyprus) is an Irish football manager and former football player who spent his career in the unterklassigen professional leagues of England, and at the highest level in Australia.
Playing career
Wayne O'Sullivan came in 1988 while still in school to Swindon Town in 1990 and was awarded a contract as a " trainee " (Eng. trainee) in the youth department under the direction of John Trollope before he signed his first professional contract in the summer of 1992. His competitive debut was O'Sullivan on 1 September 1992 in the Anglo-Italian Cup against Oxford United, until his next job but it took almost two years. After a year in the Premier League Swindon in 1994 was again relegated to the second division and O'Sullivan were in the First Division Matchday 1 of the 1994/95 season, a 2-0 victory over Port Vale, under John Gorman his league debut. Despite the upbeat success a turbulent season developed, in November 1994, Gorman was replaced by player-coach Steve McMahon, under the O'Sullivan Although still regularly came into use, which was but the negative trend does not stop in the situation. Swindon finished the season finally on the fourth- last place and was thus in the Second Division passed. There O'Sullivan played as a regular player with a large amount of work in the central midfield much of the 1995/96 season, who graduated Swindon as a master and the associated direct resurgence; In addition, he received due to his services on several occasions vocations to the Irish U-21 national team. Back in the second tier O'Sullivan lost his place to the newcomer Scott Leitch and therefore initially represented on the left-back position for the injured Jason Drysdale, before he became supplanted by Gary Elkins.
Dissatisfied with its operating times he asked during the summer break in 1997 to a transfer and moved for £ 75,000 fee to Cardiff City in the Third Division. In Cardiff itself O'Sullivan initially established as a right attacking full-back who regularly intervened in the attack game and convince there with artfully game in one-on -one knew. He spent the following season as far as possible the right of midfield, after the departure of Mark Delaney for first division club Aston Villa, he took over his position on the right side of defense, but struggled to build on the achievements of the fast and popular full-back. Despite the rise in the Second Division and a new contract offer by Cardiff to O'Sullivan decided in the summer of 1999 against a fate and moved free transfer back to the fourth division to Plymouth Argyle. There he was by his consistently good performances in his two seasons at Plymouth regulars and acted either on the right-back position or in central midfield. From the Plymouth fans, he was elected for the 2000 /01 season "Player of the Year."
Despite this appreciation he leaned in the summer of 2001 from an extension of his expiring contract at Plymouth and moved instead to Australia in the National Soccer League ( NSL) to Parramatta Power. There he spent two years as a regular player, as in the 2003 /04 Northern Spirit. By setting the NSL at the end of the season 2003/ 04 he left Australia in the meantime and spent the following months in Singapore with Geylang United. At the end of the year he returned to Australia and held at Sydney Olympic in the New South Wales Premier League fit, before he signed a contract with the Central Coast Mariners for the newly formed professional league A-League.
In the season premiere O'Sullivan made with André Gumprecht, Noel Spencer and Damien Brown the middle of the Mariners, who in the regular season, the championship finals reached after 3rd place, which was lost to Sydney FC superstar Dwight Yorke 0:1. Once in the season 2006 /07 collection has been missed in the PLAF -off round by four defeats in the last five games, O'Sullivan, Spencer and Vuko Tomasevic received by coach Lawrie McKinna, under which he was already active in Northern Spirit, a new contract more.
Coaching career
Then O'Sullivan ended his professional career and was from 2007 to 2009 under Ricki Herbert to the coaching staff of the New Zealand A- League clubs Wellington Phoenix. Previously, he had acquired at Sydney University a university degree in education. During the season 2007 /08 O'Sullivan was one mainly responsible of two assistant coaches of the following season, he was for video analysis alongside Stu Jacobs. From 2009 to 2011, and in the 2012/13 season, he served as coach the women's team of the Newcastle Jets United in the W-League.