Daniel De Silva

Daniel De Silva
De Silva in the jersey of the Australian U-20 (2013)
Personnel
Surname	Daniel Peter De Silva
birthday	March 6, 1997
place of birth	Perth ,  Australia
size	170 cm
position	attacking midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Olympic Kingsway
	Stirling Lions
2012	Football West
2013	Perth Glory
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013-2017	Perth Glory	33 (3)
2015-2017	→  Roda Kerkrade  (loan)	16 (0)
2017–	Central Coast Mariners	16 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2011–2012	Australia U17
2013-2014	Australia U-20
2015–	Australia U-23
1 Only league games are given. As of February 13, 2018 2 As of July 1, 2013

Daniel Peter De Silva (born March 6, 1997 in Perth ) is an Australian football player .

Career

De Silva's football training began with Olympic Kingsway and the Stirling Lions before joining the National Training Center of the Western Australian Federation in 2012. His talent was recognized at an early stage, in 2009 he took part in the national school championship and a little later belonged to an Australian U-13 selection that took part in a tournament of the Asian Football Confederation in Malaysia. In 2011 he played in the qualification for the U-16 Asian Cup and was part of the 2012 finals of youth national coach Alistair Edwards .

At the beginning of 2013, the midfielder aimed to move to the English club Everton , which could not be realized due to visa problems. Instead, he signed a professional contract with Perth Glory until the end of the 2014/15 season. Shortly before his 16th birthday, De Silva made his debut in the A-League on March 2, 2013 against Sydney FC . With his substitution he became the second youngest player in league history after Teeboy Kamara . By the end of the season, Perth coach Alistair Edwards used him three more times, including in the play-off game against Melbourne Victory .

In April 2013 De Silva was invited to a perspective training camp by U-20 national coach Paul Okon , but after just one training session, Okon decided to include De Silva in the current U-20 squad and nominated him for the U-20 World Cup in June 2013 in Turkey. As the youngest player of the tournament, he scored the Australian goal in the 1-1 game against Colombia, but the draw remained Australia's only point win in the course of the tournament. With the goal he also became the third youngest goalscorer in tournament history.

In the summer of 2015, De Silva moved to Roda Kerkrade in the Dutch Eredivisie .

Web links

• Daniel De Silva in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ footballwa.net: BOYS IMPRESS AT JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP (April 21, 2009)
2. ↑ footballwa.net: HIGH FIVE FOR PERTH BOYS (May 20, 2009)
3. ↑ theworldgame.sbs.com.au: Perth nabs young gun (Feb. 22, 2013) ( Memento of the original from March 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. 
4. ↑ foxsports.com.au: 16-year-old Daniel De Silva stars in Young Socceroos' opening World Cup clash with Colombia (June 24, 2013)
5. ↑ de.fifa.com: Spoilers and historical successes (June 26, 2013) ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.