James Virgili
| James Virgili | ||
 Virgili at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival 2009
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | July 8, 1992 | |
| place of birth | Newcastle , New South Wales , Australia | |
| position | Attack , midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1998-2006 | South Wallsend | |
| St. Francis Xavier College | ||
| 2007-2008 | New South Wales Institute of Sport | |
| 2008-2013 | Newcastle United Jets | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2009-2015 | Newcastle United Jets | 57 (0) |
| 2016– | Broadmeadow Magic | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| Australia U-20 | ||
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1 Only league games are given. As of March 20, 2016 |
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James Virgili (born July 8, 1992 in Newcastle , NSW ) is an Australian football player on the position of a striker . He made his professional league debut at the age of 16. Virgili played 57 A-League games for Newcastle United Jets from 2009 to 2015 .
Career
Youth and amateur football
Virgili began his active football career in 1998 with South Wallsend , an amateur football club from Wallsend , New South Wales. There he played for several years and only later came to St. Francis Xavier College in Canberra . After college, he moved to the New South Wales Institute of Sport in 2007 , which opened in 1996 and is located in the Sydney Olympic Park . After a year at the institute, Virgili moved in 2008 to the youth team of the A-League club Newcastle Jets.
Club career
Virgili's professional career began on January 4, 2009, when he was substituted on on Matchday 18 of the current season in the 3-0 loss to Wellington Phoenix . When he was just 16 years and 180 days old, Virgili was the youngest player ever to play in an A-League match. He replaced his team-mate Ben Kantarovski , who was 16 years and 208 days old when he made his professional debut on August 15, 2008. In December 2011, this record was clearly undercut by 15-year-old Teeboy Kamara .
His contract, which expired in mid-2015, was not extended by the club. After using the second half of 2015 to advance his college degree in diagnostic radiography , Virgili joined Broadmeadow Magic in January 2016 with gaming operations in the NPL Northern NSW , where his father coaches the men's team.
International
Virgili took part in the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival football tournament with an Australian U-18 selection , scoring two goals in three games. In November 2009 he participated with the Australian U-20 selection in the successful qualification for the 2010 U-19 Asian Cup.
Web links
- James Virgili in the database of weltfussball.de
- Player profile on the official website of the AOC Youth Festival 2009 ( Memento from October 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dutchy's babes: Jets keep getting younger in club's season from hell
- ↑ theherald.com.au: Hopes for axed Jets players Regan, Virgili to return (May 22, 2015)
- ↑ theherald.com.au: Former Newcastle Jets winger James Virgili signs with Broadmeadow Magic (Jan. 14, 2016)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Virgili, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1992 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newcastle , New South Wales, Australia |