Kris Bright

Kris Bright
Personnel
Surname	Kris William Bright
birthday	5th September 1986
place of birth	Manukau City ,  New Zealand
size	188 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
	Manurewa AFC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2004	North Shore United
2004	Waitakere City FC
2005	Canterbury United
2005	Waitakere City FC
2005-2006	New Zealand Knights	12 0(0)
2006-2007	Fortuna Sittard	11 0(1)
2007-2008	Kristiansund BK
2009	Panserraikos	6 0(0)
2009-2010	Shrewsbury Town	28 0(2)
2011	Honvéd Budapest
2011	Balzan Youths
2012–	Bryne FK	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2008–	New Zealand	4 0(1)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 14, 2012 2 As of June 30, 2010

Kris Bright (born September 5, 1986 in Manukau City ) is a New Zealand soccer player . The national team player of his country has been under contract with the Norwegian Bryne FK since 2012 . His father Dave Bright was in the New Zealand World Cup squad in 1982 .

Club career

Bright started playing soccer at Manurewa AFC in his hometown. With Waitakere City FC he reached the final of the Chatham Cup in 2004 and was a top scorer in the Northern League .

In the summer of 2005 Bright was signed by the A-League club New Zealand Knights alongside Sam Jasper and Jeremy Christie as one of three mandatory young players and initially passed on to Waitakere United . On October 27, 2005 Bright was added to the squad to replace the injured Neil Emblen . Just two days later, he made his league debut for the Knights against the Central Coast Mariners and, due to his performances, remained part of the player's squad. By the end of the season he had played twelve games, including nine as a player on the starting line-up.

In August 2006 he completed a trial training session with the Dutch second division club Fortuna Sittard and finally received a one-year contract. After only one season, in which Bright only managed one goal in eleven games, the club management decided not to extend the contract.

He found a new club with the Norwegian third division club Kristiansund BK . In his first seven games for the club, he scored eleven goals before a broken leg kept him off the field for half a year. After his comeback, he was able to confirm his good goalscoring rate from the previous season and closed the 2008 season with twelve goals.

In January 2009 he moved to the Greek first division club Panserraikos , but already dissolved his contract there in summer 2009. In August 2009 he signed a two-year contract with the English fourth division club Shrewsbury Town .

National team

Bright was used in New Zealand's U15, U16, U17 and U20 selection. He participated with the U-17 in the unsuccessful qualification for the U-17 World Cup in 2003 and failed with the U-20 in the qualification for the Junior World Cup 2005 .

On November 19, 2008 he came in the insignificant last game of the OFC Nations Cup (and World Cup qualifier) ​​as a substitute against the Fiji Islands for his first appearance in the senior team of New Zealand . He scored his first international goal in March 2009 when he lost 3-1 in a friendly against Thailand. In June 2009 Bright was part of the New Zealand squad at the Confederations Cup in South Africa and came out in the preliminary round to a use.

Web links

• Kris Bright in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kris Bright . New Zealand Football , archived from the original on September 2, 2007 ; accessed on August 25, 2014 (English, original website no longer available).  
2. ↑ nzknights.com: Knights Confirm Apprentice Scheme and finalize squad (June 21, 2005) ( Memento of August 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ nzknights.com: Bright gets big chance as Emblen ruled out (October 27, 2005) ( Memento of August 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ fortunasittard.nl: Kris Bright voor één jaar Fortunees (31 Aug 2006)
5. ↑ fortunasittard.nl: Kris Bright scoort tijdens debuut (20 Aug 2007)
6. ↑ fortunasittard.nl: Kris Bright published Fortuna Sittard (July 21, 2007)