Travis Dodd

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Travis Dodd
Dodd warming up.jpg
Dodd warming up before a game (2008)
Personnel
Surname Travis Gareth Dodd
birthday January 6, 1980
place of birth Adelaide ,  Australia
size 177 cm
Juniors
Years station
Elizabeth City
1996 SASI
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-1999 Adelaide City Force 39 0(0)
1999-2000 Newcastle Breakers 32 0(2)
2000-2003 Newcastle United 72 0(8)
2003-2004 Parramatta power 27 0(6)
2004 Johor FC
2004-2005 Panionios Athens 4 0(0)
2005-2011 Adelaide United 124 (27)
2011– Perth Glory 48 0(9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2006 Australia 2 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of February 24, 2014

Travis Gareth Dodd (born January 6, 1980 in Adelaide ) is an Australian football player . The offensive player has been under contract with the A-League club Perth Glory since 2011 . He was the first Aboriginal footballer to score a goal on the Australian national football team .

Club career

Dodd joined Adelaide City Force in the National Soccer League (NSL) in 1996 from the South Australian Sports Institute , where he made his league debut at the age of 16 years and 281 days. In 1999 he moved to the Newcastle Breakers , which were withdrawn from the NSL game operations in 2000 and replaced by the newly founded club Newcastle United , where Dodd was also staying. The 2003/04 season, the last before the NSL was discontinued, he spent at Parramatta Power .

The offensive player then played for a few months at Johor FC in Malaysia before moving to Greece for Panionios Athens . There he came under coach Karol Pecze to some appearances in the league and in the UEFA Cup , but played no role after his dismissal in December under the new coach Georgios Vazakas . He then returned to Australia in 2005 and signed in the newly formed A-League with Adelaide United .

In the opening season he was with Adelaide champions of the regular season, but then lost in the play-off games against Sydney, the major semifinal and then the preliminary final against the Central Coast Mariners. In May 2007 Dodd succeeded in the AFC Champions League game against Đồng Tâm Long An as the first Australian a hat trick. For the 2008/09 season he took over the captaincy of Michael Valkanis and reached the final with Adelaide in the AFC Champions League 2008 , in which they had no chance against Gamba Osaka (0-3 and 0-2).

By reaching the final in the Champions League, they qualified for participation in the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup . Dodd scored the 2-1 winner in the opening game against Oceania representatives Waitakere United .

National team

Dodd came in 2006 in qualifying for the 2007 Asian Cup to two appearances in the Australian national team . On his debut against Kuwait, he scored the 1-0 opening goal, becoming the first Aboriginal to score a goal for the Australian national team.

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jason Dasey / ESPN : From A-League To Asia For Dodd (3 March 2008)
  2. ↑ news.com.au: Cool Dodd new Adelaide United skipper (July 31, 2008)
  3. ↑ a-league.com.au: Dodd heads Adelaide through (December 12, 2008) ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.a-league.com.au
  4. ↑ TheWorldGame.com.au: Trailblazing Dodd (17. Aug. 2006)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / theworldgame.sbs.com.au  

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personal data
SURNAME Dodd, Travis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dodd, Travis Gareth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide , Australia