Connor Pain

Connor Pain
Pain as a player in the U-20 national team (2013)
Personnel
Surname	Connor Thomas Pain
birthday	November 11, 1993
place of birth	Hong Kong
size	174 cm
position	Wing (left)
Juniors
Years	station
	Beaumaris
	North Caufield
2012-2013	Melbourne Victory
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2010-2011	Malvern City
2012	Bentleigh Greens	19 (1)
2013–	Melbourne Victory	11 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2013	Australia U-20
2013–	Australia	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of July 28, 2013 2 As of July 28, 2013

Connor Thomas Pain (born November 11, 1993 in Hong Kong ) is an Australian football player .

Club career

Pain, whose grandfather Tommy Casey took part in the 1958 World Cup with Northern Ireland and won the FA Cup with Newcastle United , grew up in Hong Kong until he was eight . The family then moved to Melbourne, Australia . There he played in the youth field with Beaumaris and North Caufield. His first steps in the adult sector made Pain from 2010 at the lower class Melbourne club Malvern City , before he played in the 2012 season for the Bentleigh Greens in the Victorian Premier League .

For the 2012/13 season he was committed to the junior team of the professional club Melbourne Victory and won the championship of the National Youth League with the team . The left winger made his debut in the professional team, which Pain watched regularly in his youth, on February 2, 2013 in the city derby against Melbourne Heart . Coach Ange Postecoglou also relied on the young player and a month after his debut, Pain signed his first professional contract.

National team

Pain's development at Melbourne Victory also attracted interest from the Australian Association. Pain was invited to a training camp for the first time by U-20 national coach Paul Okon in May 2013 with a view to the U-20 World Cup and, shortly after his international debut, made it into the World Cup squad in a friendly against the youngsters of the Netherlands . At the finals in Turkey, Pain was used in all three group games, but Australia failed with only one point gain as bottom of the table in the preliminary round.

In July 2013, Pain was appointed to a training camp for the Australian national team by national coach Holger Osieck and was finally nominated for the 2013 East Asian Championship . After he was not used in the first game, he returned temporarily to Australia before the second group game to play a friendly against Liverpool with Victory . In the last tournament game against China (final score 3: 4) Pain made his debut on July 28, 2013 as a substitute for the Australian national team.

Web links

• Connor Pain in the weltfussball.de database
• Connor Pain in the transfermarkt.de database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ mfootball.com.au: Pain reflects on journey to A-League (March 7, 2013) ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2013 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. 
2. ↑ Connor Pain: I'm still pinching myself (March 7, 2013) ( Memento from July 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ theweeklyreviewstonnington.com.au: Malvern City's Pain takes pleasure in rapid rise to the top (April 1, 2013)  ( 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.  
4. ↑ heraldsun.com.au: From singing in the stands to sharing onfield glory, Connor Pain's Melbourne Victory journey has been swift (April 12, 2013)
5. ↑ sportingjournal.com.au: The remarkable story of Connor Pain (April 18, 2013)
6. ↑ foxsports.com.au: Socceroos coach releases Melbourne Victory players for Liverpool clash (July 21, 2013)