Anthony Danze
| Anthony Danze | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | March 15, 1984 | |
| place of birth | Perth , Australia | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| until 2000 | ECU Joondalup | |
| 2001-2002 | Australian Institute of Sport | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2000 | ECU Joondalup | |
| 2000-2004 | Perth Glory | 11 (0) |
| 2001 | → Inglewood United (loan) | |
| 2003 | → ECU Joondalup (loan) | |
| 2004 | Inglewood United | |
| 2004-2005 | Crystal Palace | 0 (0) |
| 2004-2005 | → Milton Keynes Dons (loan) | 2 (0) |
| 2006 | Inglewood United | |
| 2007 | Perth Glory | 8 (0) |
| 2011 | Balcatta SC | |
| 2016 | Perth SC | 4 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| Australia U17 | ||
| Australia U-20 | ||
| Australia U-23 | ||
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Anthony Danze (born March 15, 1984 in Perth ) is a former Australian football player . Danze took part in major international tournaments with all three Australian junior national teams, but did not gain a foothold in the professional field, also due to injuries, and ended his professional career at the age of 23.
Club career
Shortly after his 16th birthday, Danze played for ECU Joondalup in the Western Australia Premier League , the state's top division. At that time, Joondalup was running the Saints' Academy in the youth division in cooperation with the English first division club FC Southampton, under the direction of the former English professional footballer Mick Lyons and therefore had numerous talented young players. Because of these relationships, Danze completed a trial training session at Southampton FC in 2000, but turned down an offer from the English club. Instead, he moved in September 2000 to Perth Glory , the only West Australian club in the national division of the National Soccer League . As a reason for staying in Australia, he cited that he did not yet feel ready to move to England and wanted to prove himself in the top Australian league first.
After playing on loan at Inglewood United in early 2001 to gain match practice, he was accepted a little later at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra , with whom he competed in the National Soccer Youth League until mid-2002 . From July 2002 the midfield talent was back at Perth Glory, but had to wait until February 2003 for his competitive debut. After seven appearances in the 2002/03 season, the hoped-for breakthrough failed to materialize in the following season. Also through his absence with the Australian U-20 and U-23 selection, he only made four season appearances when Perth successfully defended the championship title. Neither in the 2-0 final win against the Olympic Sharks in 2003 nor in the 2004 final against Parramatta Power (1-0 afterwards) Danze was used.
After the NSL was discontinued at the end of the 2003/04 season, Danze completed a successful one-month trial training session with the English first division club Crystal Palace after the Summer Olympics and signed a two-year contract. After an appearance in the 2-0 defeat in the League Cup against Manchester United at Old Trafford , he was loaned out to the Milton Keynes Dons in Football League One for a month at the end of December 2003 , his engagement there ended after one in his second use sustained injury early. Although Palace just missed relegation in the Premier League in the 2004/05 season and was relegated to the Football League Championship , the chances of using Danze did not improve. After another use in the League Cup, he finally dissolved his contract with the club prematurely in October 2005 and returned to Australia.
Back in Perth, he temporarily played again for Inglewood United in 2006, but was restricted by injuries as during his time at Crystal Palace and took a longer break from football, which he said in June 2007 spanned almost two years. Perth Glory, now active in the A-League founded as the NSL successor league, still took Danze under contract for the 2007/08 season . Continuing injury problems threw him back again and again during the season and resulted in fitness problems, so that his contract was canceled by mutual agreement in December 2007 after eight league appearances. In 2011 he was part of the Balcatta SC squad in the Premier League of Western Australia, in 2016 he played four more games for Perth SC - also in the top Western Australian division .
National team
With the Australian U-17 selection , Danze won the 2001 oceanic qualifying tournament for the U-17 World Cup in 2001 in Trinidad and Tobago. At the World Cup finals, he played in central midfield alongside Carl Valeri and scored three goals in the decisive third round match in a 4-0 win against the Croatian U-17s, which meant that he made it to the quarter-finals for his team. There the Nigerian team proved to be too strong and won 5-1.
Shortly before the U-20 World Cup in 2003 in the United Arab Emirates, Danze moved into the U-20 squad of coach Ange Postecoglou , who was already responsible for the U-17 World Cup in 2001. The midfielder played three of Australia's four tournament games and scored two goals in the last group game in a 3-2 win over eventual world champions Brazil. Australia then failed in the round of 16 against the host's team. In the official tournament report he is listed alongside Spase Dilevski as an “outstanding player” of his team and described as a “creative midfielder, technically adept, with an eye for the decisive pass at the right time” .
At the beginning of 2004 Danze missed the qualifying tournament for the Olympic football tournament in Greece due to injury , but was part of the squad for the final round. He was used in three of four tournament games, the only time he was in the starting line-up when he lost 1-0 in the quarter-finals against the surprise team from Iraq. While most of his Olympic teammates subsequently played in the Australian senior national team , Danze was denied this step.
Web links
- Anthony Danze in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ footballwa.net: DANZE JOINS GLORY (Sep. 21, 2000)
- ↑ footballwa.net: DANZE JOINS INGLEWOOD (Jan. 20, 2001)
- ↑ footballwa.net: TWO MAKE JOEYS SQUAD (6 Aug 2001)
- ↑ footballwa.net: YOUNG GUN DANZE-ING TO THE TOP (July 18, 2002)
- ↑ footballwa.net: DANZE AIMS TO BECOME A CONSTANT (Dec. 18, 2003)
- ↑ footballwa.net: PALACE SNAP UP DANZE (23 Sep. 2004)
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2005/2006 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2005, ISBN 1-85291-662-1 , pp. 101 .
- ↑ footballwa.net: DANZE SPLITS WITH PALACE (Oct. 18, 2005)
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2006-07 . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 1-84596-111-0 , pp. 99 f .
- ↑ footballwa.net: DANZE AIMS FOR THE TOP AGAIN (March 5, 2007)
- ↑ footballwa.net: DANZE BACK HOME LOOKING FOR GLORY (June 4, 2007)
- ↑ footballwa.net: DANZE DEPARTS (December 13, 2007)
- ↑ footballwa.net: 2011 Season Preview
- ↑ sportstg.com: Player Profile Anthony Danze , accessed on December 5, 2018
- ↑ rsssf.com: Oceania Preliminary Competition for the U-17 World Cup 2001
- ↑ FIFA (Ed.): Technical Report FIFA U-17 World Championship - Trinidad & Tobago 2001 , Zurich 2001, p. 136
- ↑ footballwa.net: NATIONAL CALL-UP FOR DANZE AND TARKA (Oct. 3, 2003)
- ↑ FIFA (Ed.): Technical Report and Statistics - FIFA World Youth Championship UAE 2003 , Zurich 2003, p. 97
- ↑ footballwa.net: GLORY PAIR OUT OF OLYMPIC QUALIFIERS (Jan. 14, 2004)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Danze, Anthony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perth |