Chris Coyne

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Chris Coyne
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Coyne during training with the national team (2008)
Personnel
Surname Christopher John Coyne
birthday December 20, 1978
place of birth Brisbane ,  Australia
size 185 cm
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
Sorrento FC
Kingsway Olympic
West Ham United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1995 Perth SC 15 0(0)
1996-2000 West Ham United 1 0(0)
1998 →  Brentford FC  (loan) 7 0(0)
1999 →  Southend United  (loan) 1 0(0)
2000-2001 Dundee FC 20 0(0)
2001-2008 Luton Town 221 (14)
2008-2009 Colchester United 35 0(1)
2009–2012 Perth Glory 32 0(0)
2010 →  Liaoning Hongyun  (loan) 20 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995 Australia U17 7 0(0)
1999-2000 Australia U-23 8 0(0)
2008-2009 Australia 7 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of May 1, 2012

Christopher John "Chris" Coyne (born December 20, 1978 in Brisbane ) is a former Australian football player . The seven-time Australian international played 325 competitive games during a 13-year stay in Great Britain, the majority of them for Luton Town in lower-class English football . From 2009 to 2012 he was active in Australia for Perth Glory and played there at times with his brother Jamie .

Club career

Chris Coyne's father John was a professional footballer in England and came to Australia in the late 1970s, where he even made a few appearances in the Australian national team. Coyne grew up in New South Wales and was trained there by his father. At the age of 15 he moved with his family to Western Australia and subsequently played in the youth field for Sorrento FC and Kingsway Olympic and in the adult field for Perth SC in the top division of the state. On New Year's Day 1996, Coyne moved from Perth to the English club West Ham United for £ 150,000 and initially played in the club's youth team. At the side of Rio Ferdinand and David Partridge he stood in the final of the FA Youth Cup in 1996, which they lost to the offspring of Liverpool FC .

At the beginning of the 1998/99 season Coyne was loaned out to fourth division club Brentford for a month to collect match practice and came as a substitute for Danny Cullip to a total of eight missions. After his return still active in West Ham's reserve team, followed in April 1999 another loan stay in the fourth division at Southend United . After only one week and one mission, however, he was ordered back to West Ham by Harry Redknapp due to an injury-related absence. On May 1, 1994 Coyne came in the 5-1 loss to Leeds United , in which three West Ham players of the field were sent off, by substitution in the 83rd minute to make his Premier League debut . This also remained his only competitive game for the professional team, in which he was unable to assert himself against competitors such as Rio Ferdinand , Neil Ruddock , Steve Potts and Ian Pearce .

With the imminent expiry of his contract in the summer of 2000, he was enabled in March 2000 a free transfer to FC Dundee in the Scottish Premier League . At Dundee, however, he was only used after the summer break and established himself in central defense in the second half of the season. Dundee closed the 2000/01 season in sixth place in the table, whereby the club qualified for the UI Cup 2001 and thus for the first time since 1974 again participated in an international competition. Coyne started the season in the UI Cup games against FK Sartid (0-0 and 2-5 ), but lost his regular place at the start of the season and moved to English fourth division Luton Town in September 2000 for a transfer fee of 50,000 pounds .

There he immediately established himself under coach Joe Kinnear in central defense at the side of Russell Perrett , when the club managed the immediate return to the third division as second behind Plymouth Argyle . Even a league higher, Coyne, who impressed with his duel skills on the ground and in the air as well as his leadership skills, had no adjustment difficulties and was voted "Player of the Year" by the supporters of the club at the end of the 2002/03 season. During a takeover episode by businessman John Guerney in the summer of 2003, Kinnear was fired and replaced by Mike Newell , under the Luton with Coyne as a regular in 2005 as a champion of Football League One in the Football League Championship . Coyne was not only involved in this success through his defensive performance, but also contributed to the successful course of the season with five goals in standard situations. For his achievements, Coyne, which is unusual for a defender, was named Player of the Month April 2005 within the league and at the end of the season - along with five other Luton players ( Marlon Beresford , Curtis Davies , Ahmet Brković , Kevin Nicholls and Steve Howard ) - in the League team of the year of the Professional Footballers' Association selected. In the following two seasons in the second division, Coyne was increasingly plagued by injury problems, while in the 2005/06 season he still made 30 out of 46 possible appearances and Luton temporarily played for promotion to the Premier League, it was only enough in the following season 18 games when the club could no longer hold the class.

One league lower, Luton soon got into financial problems and finally had to open bankruptcy proceedings in November 2007. In addition to a point deduction, which led the club down to fifth division until 2009, they were also forced to sell top performers. Coyne therefore moved after more than 250 competitive games for Luton in January 2008 to relegation-threatened second division Colchester United , who set up a club-internal record transfer with a transfer fee of 350,000 pounds. Also Coyne's contribution could not prevent the relegation of Colchester as the knocked-down bottom of the table, for Coyne this was the second descent from the championship within a year. For the 2008/09 season Coyne was appointed captain, but was only used irregularly. Due to injury problems, but also regular nominations by the Australian national team , for which he made seven international appearances between June 2008 and June 2009 and which had absolute priority over his club, as well as a coach change at Colchester ( Paul Lambert replaced Geraint Williams ) he is often only scheduled as a substitute.

After 18 months, the players and club agreed to an early termination of the contract in the summer of 2009 and Coyne returned to Australia after 13 years on the British Isles. There he joined the A-League club Perth Glory , which he had already mentioned several times in interviews as a possible future station and with which his brother Jamie Coyne was also under contract. Since the league was founded in 2005, Perth has missed participation in the play-offs four times in a row, only with Coyne and the two newly signed Australian national players Jacob Burns and Mile Sterjovski succeeded in qualifying for the championship play for the first time in the 2009/10 season. offs. There, however, the team failed in the first game after penalty shoot-out against New Zealand league participant Wellington Phoenix .

In order to maintain his chances of a World Cup nomination, Coyne moved in March 2010 on loan to the Chinese first division club Liaoning Hongyun . However, the hoped-for consideration for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa did not materialize and Coyne extended his stay in China for a few weeks. The original plan to return to Perth for the start of the season at the beginning of August was suddenly thrown out when, for reasons of transfer law, a return was unexpectedly only possible on January 1, 2011. Coyne thus missed a large part of the A-League season 2010/11 and injured his Achilles tendon shortly after his return and was thus out without having played a season game for Perth until the end of the season. Perth Glory ended the season on the penultimate place in the table. After almost 20 months without a competitive game for Perth, he made his comeback at the beginning of the 2011/12 season and started six of the first seven game days in central defense alongside Bas van den Brink . On Matchday 7, Coyne suffered an Achilles tendon rupture in the away game at Melbourne Victory shortly before the end of the game and was canceled for the rest of the season, in which Perth Glory reached the championship final of the A-League for the first time (1: 2 against Brisbane Roar ). Shortly after the end of the season, the club announced that Coyne's contract would not be renewed.

National team

In 1995, Coyne was part of the Australian team at the U-17 World Cup in Ecuador, which lost 3-1 to the Brazilian team in the quarter-finals . In the years 1999 and 2000, Coyne was one in preparation for the Olympic football tournament in the squad of the Olympic team . However, Coyne missed the leap into the final 18-man tournament line-up of coach Raul Blanco and refused a nomination as a standby player with reference to his obligations to his club FC Dundee .

After Coyne responded negatively to a request from the Irish Association to change associations in 2005, he was unexpectedly invited by national coach Pim Verbeek to a training camp of the Australian senior team in May 2008 at the age of 29 . His long-cherished dream of playing for the Australian national team finally came true a month later when he made his international debut as part of the World Cup qualification against Iraq . In the following twelve months, four more appearances in the successful World Cup qualification and two appearances in friendly matches followed. He was particularly praised for his performance in central defense alongside Lucas Neill in the 1-0 away win against Uzbekistan in the first game of the decisive World Cup qualifying round.

Although Verbeek Coyne publicly suggested a club change in September 2008 and Coyne hoped to move more into focus by moving to the A-League, there were no further nominations after his return. The move to China did not improve his situation either and he was not included in the World Cup line-up . A few months later, Coyne was also not on a 50-player provisional list of the new national coach Holger Osieck with regard to the 2011 Asian Cup .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ footballwa.net: FATHER MY BIGGEST INFLUENCE SAYS COYNE (Dec. 27, 2002)
  2. ↑ footballwa.net: IN CONVERSATION WITH… CHRIS COYNE (March 7, 2002)
  3. ^ Tony Hogg, Who's Who of West Ham United . Profile Sports Media, London 2005, ISBN 1-903135-50-8 , pp. 55 .
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1999, ISBN 1-85291-607-9 , pp. 70 .
  5. ↑ skysports.com: COYNE SIGNS FOR DUNDEE (March 31, 2000)
  6. ↑ footballwa.net: DUNDEE TO SELL COYNE (25 Aug 2001)
  7. ↑ footballwa.net: COYNE DEAL GOES THROUGH (Sep. 17, 2001)
  8. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2002/2003 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2002, ISBN 1-85291-648-6 , pp. 96 .
  9. ↑ footballwa.net: COYNE LUTON'S MR CONSISTENCY (May 14, 2003)
  10. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2005/2006 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2005, ISBN 1-85291-662-1 , pp. 93 .
  11. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Trio are handed awards for April (May 2, 2005)
  12. ↑ footballwa.net: COYNE SIGNS FOR COLCHESTER (Jan. 12, 2008)
  13. ↑ skysports.com: Coyne seals U's switch (Jan. 10, 2008)
  14. ↑ footballwa.net: COYNE DELIGHTED TO BE SKIPPER (July 31, 2008)
  15. ↑ footballwa.net: COUNTRY BEFORE CLUB FOR COYNE (Oct. 27, 2008)
  16. ↑ footballwa.net: GLORY COMPLETE COYNE SIGNING (July 10, 2009)
  17. ↑ footballwa.net: COYNE HEADS TO CHINA (March 6, 2010)
  18. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Coyne Ruled Out For Season (Jan. 11, 2011)
  19. ↑ perthnow.com.au: Achilles injury puts Perth Glory defender Chris Coyne's career in limbo (Nov. 29, 2011)
  20. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Glory Sign Ward, Four Released (April 27, 2012)
  21. ↑ FIFA (Ed.): FIFA Under-17 World Championship Ecuador '95 - Technical Report, p. 113
  22. ↑ footballwa.net: COYNE DROPS OUT OF OLYROO SQUAD (Aug. 21, 2000)
  23. ↑ footballwa.net: COYNE REJECTS IRISH REQUEST FOR SOCCEROOS (May 7, 2005)
  24. ↑ footballwa.net: COYNE JOINS SOCCEROOS (May 21, 2008)
  25. ↑ footballwa.net: COYNE SIGNALS HIS GLORY DAYS (June 21, 2007)
  26. ↑ footballwa.net: COYNE HAPPY WITH FIRST UP PERFORMANCE (June 9, 2008)
  27. ↑ footballwa.net: NEILL-COYNE COMBINATION DELIGHTS VERBEEK (Sep. 11, 2008)
  28. ↑ footballwa.net: VERBEEK WANTS COYNE TO LEAVE COLCHESTER (Sep. 30, 2008)
  29. ↑ perthnow.com.au: Player vows to shine for Glory after Chine debacle (December 25, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Coyne, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coyne, Christopher John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Brisbane