Bruce Djite
| Bruce Djite | ||
 Bruce Djite (2008)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Bruce José Djite | |
| birthday | March 25, 1987 | |
| place of birth | Washington, DC , United States | |
| size | 184 cm | |
| position | Storm | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Lindfield SC | ||
| Ku-ring-gai | ||
| NSW Institute of Sport | ||
| 2000-2004 | Northern Spirit FC | |
| 2004-2005 | Marconi Stallions | |
| 2006 | Australian Institute of Sport | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2005-2006 | Marconi Stallions | |
| 2006-2008 | Adelaide United | 20 (6) |
| 2008-2010 | Gençlerbirliği Ankara | 33 (6) |
| 2010 | → Diyarbakırspor (loan) | 9 (0) |
| 2010-2011 | Gold Coast United | 23 (10) |
| 2011– | Adelaide United | 43 (7) |
| 2011 | → Jiangsu Sainty (loan) | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 2006 | Australia U-20 | 13 (5) |
| 2007-2008 | Australia U-23 | 13 (1) |
| 2008– | Australia | 9 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: October 14, 2013 2 As of October 14, 2013 |
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Bruce Djite (born March 25, 1987 in Washington, DC ) is an Australian football player .
Club career
Djite, born in Washington, DC , in 1987 to an Ivorian professor and a Togolese woman , came to Australia with his family in 1990 at the age of three, where his father had accepted a position at the University of Western Sydney . During a stay of several months in the Ivory Coast, Djite came into contact with the football game at the age of 6 and joined a local football club on his return to Australia. He joined Northern Spirit FC at the age of 13 and after the club was dissolved in 2004 he moved to the youth department of the Marconi Stallions .
In 2006 the striker was admitted to the Australian Institute of Sport and received a short-term contract with Adelaide United in October of that year . He made his debut in the A-League on October 22nd with a 4-2 home win against the New Zealand Knights , after his participation in the U-19 Asian Cup he received another contract in December and came among other things with the 0: 6 loss in the championship final against Melbourne Victory .
For the 2007/08 season Djite was firmly committed and established himself as a regular at Adelaide. With six hits in just twelve league appearances, an ankle injury forced him to take a two-month break, he was Adelaide's most successful goalscorer and was awarded the Rising Star Award for best U-20 player in the league at the end of the season . During the summer break, he signed a three-year contract with the Turkish club Gençlerbirliği Ankara for a rumored A-League record transfer fee of A $ 850,000 .
After he made 28 league appearances in his first season in Turkey and scored six goals, he has only been used sporadically in his second season.
National team
Djite was due to his origin for four different football associations internationally eligible to play. In addition to his native USA, he could also have competed for one of his parents' countries of birth (Ivory Coast and Togo). However, Djite decided to pursue a career in the Australian national selection and later said:
"I never wanted to play for any other country but Australia. I learned my football in Australia. I'm Australian. "
“I never wanted to play for any country other than Australia. I learned to play soccer in Australia. I am Australian."
In 2006 he failed with the Young Socceroos , the Australian U-20 national team , in the quarter-finals of the U-19 Asian Cup and thus missed qualifying for the 2007 Junior World Cup . Between 2007 and 2008 he was a regular member of the Australian Olympic team (U-23), but surprisingly , like his former teammate at Adelaide, Nathan Burns , he was not included in the team of trainer Graham Arnold for the 2008 Olympic soccer tournament in China .
For his international debut in the Australian senior team , the offensive player came in a friendly against Singapore in March 2008 when he was substituted on at half time. As a result, he was also used several times in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup .
Web links
- Bruce Djite in the database of weltfussball.de
- Profile at the Australian Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b theaustralian.com: Djite strikes out on his own and kicks career goal (Oct. 26, 2006)
- ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Djite Out For Up To Six Weeks (Oct. 9, 2007)
- ↑ theage.com.au: Griffiths wins Johnny Warren Medal (Feb. 28, 2008) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ news.com.au: Djite's record-breaking move (May 28, 2008)
- ↑ abc.net.au: Worrying times for Djite (Oct. 24, 2009)
- ↑ smh.com.au: Djite sacrifices the good life to thrive in Turkey (Dec. 14, 2008)
- ↑ news.com.au: Nathan Burns, Bruce Djite to miss Olympics (July 3, 2008)
- ↑ smh.com.au: Arnold snubs dynamic duo Djite and Burns (July 5, 2008)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Djite, Bruce |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |