Lucas Neill

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Lucas Neill
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Personnel
Surname Lucas Edward Neill
birthday March 9, 1978
place of birth Sydney ,  Australia
size 185 cm
position defender
Juniors
Years station
Wakehurst Tigers
Manly United
1994-1995 Australian Institute of Sport
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1995-2001 Millwall FC 152 (13)
2001-2007 Blackburn Rovers 188 0(5)
2007-2009 West Ham United 79 0(1)
2009-2010 Everton FC 12 0(0)
2010-2011 Galatasaray Istanbul 39 0(1)
2011–2012 Al-Jazira Club 19 0(3)
2012-2013 al-Wasl 11 0(0)
2013 Sydney FC 3 0(0)
2013 Ōmiya Ardija 9 0(0)
2014 Watford FC 1 0(0)
2014 →  Doncaster Rovers  (loan) 4 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1997 Australia U-20 8 0(3)
1999-2000 Australia U-23 13 0(0)
1996-2013 Australia 96 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Lucas Neill (born March 9, 1978 in Sydney ) is a former Australian football player . The defender spent 15 years of his career in England and was a Premier League regular for Blackburn Rovers , West Ham United and Everton FC in the 2000s .

Neill was also the long-time captain of the Australian national soccer team , for which he played in 96 international matches and took part in the 2006 and 2010 World Cups .

Career

society

Lucas Neill in the jersey of Everton FC (2009)

As a teenager, Neill played at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra , where he received a scholarship. In 1995, at the age of 17, he went to England for the then second division club Millwall . Neill played for six years for the London club, which started in the English third division from relegation in 1996 . In 2001 he rose again to the second division with Millwall, but after a few games in the new season he joined the Blackburn Rovers , who had just been promoted to the Premier League . Neill immediately became a regular here and retained this status for the next five and a half years. With the Rovers he qualified twice for the UEFA Cup and won the League Cup in 2002 , although he was not eligible to play ( cup-tied ) due to his previous assignments for Millwall in the cup competition . His fatal foul on Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher sparked a public dispute between officials from both clubs in the 2003/04 season.

In January 2007, Neill returned to London and moved to league rivals West Ham United . Here, too, he immediately asserted himself as a regular player, became the playmaker of the defense chain and in summer 2007 also became the team's captain. In September 2009 he signed a one-year contract with Everton FC . Here he completed the last twelve of his 279 games in the Premier League. Behind Mark Schwarzer , Neill is the Australian with the second-most appearances in the English first division (as of May 2020).

Neill moved to the traditional Turkish club Galatasaray Istanbul in January 2010 for a transfer fee of £ 750,000 (€ 840,000) . His contract there ran until the end of June 2011 and was not renewed. His only goal in 39 league appearances for the red and yellow he marked on April 11, 2010 in the league game against Diyarbakırspor .

From mid-2011 to early 2013, Neill played for al-Jazira Club from Abu Dhabi and al-Wasl from Dubai . With al-Jazira he won the national UAE President's Cup in 2012 and scored the goal to 1-0 in the final in a 3-1 win against Baniyas SC .

In 2013 he was under contract for a few months each with Sydney FC and the Japanese club Ōmiya Ardija .

In the first half of 2014, he returned to the English second division, but only came to a few appearances at Watford FC and on loan at Doncaster Rovers . After that he couldn't find a new club.

National team

Neill made his debut in 1996 at the age of 18 in the Australian national soccer team , but only came to one other senior international match until 2003. In the meantime, he won the U-20 Oceania Championship with the Australian U-20 team in 1997 and took part in the Junior World Cup in Malaysia in the same year , where Australia was eliminated in the preliminary round. He was also part of the Australian football selection at the 2000 Summer Olympics in his own country.

In 2004 he took part in the Oceania Championship and was on the field for Australia's victory in the finals against the Solomonic national football team . From 2005 he became an integral part of the team and hardly missed a game in the years to come. He also represented his country in all three preliminary round matches at the 2005 Confederations Cup . By winning the intercontinental playoff against Uruguay at the end of 2005, Australia qualified for a World Cup for the first time since it first played in 1974. Neill converted a penalty kick in the second leg and was voted Man of the Match .

In 2006 he took part in the World Cup finals in Germany , where Australia lost to eventual world champions Italy in the round of 16 . Neill's foul on Fabio Grosso in the last minute of stoppage time led to the game-winning penalty .

After the World Cup Neill led his team for the first time in some games as captain, but had in the Asia Cup 2007 even Mark Viduka leave in office precedence. The team reached the quarter-finals of the tournament, in which they failed on penalties against Japan . Neill and his teammate Harry Kewell missed their penalties.

In his second World Cup participation in South Africa in 2010 , Neill led Australia as captain through the tournament. The team was eliminated this time in the preliminary round, among other things by a 0: 4 defeat against Germany . In 2011 he reached the final of the Asian Cup in Qatar with the national team , which was lost again to Japan in extra time .

Neill scored his only international goal on June 11, 2013 in a 4-0 World Cup qualifier against Jordan . In the same year he made his last appearances in the national jersey. For the 2014 World Cup , he was no longer considered due to a lack of match practice.

In total, Neill completed 96 international matches for the Australian national soccer team . In 2013 he became the record captain of his country with 61 missions.

After the active career

After not being considered for the 2014 World Cup, Neill withdrew from the public. In 2016 he was declared bankrupt in the UK . He lives in England.

family

Neill's father Eddie was Northern Irish and also played football before migrating to Australia in 1969.

successes

society

National team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Neill's great escape. In: sportstar.thehindu.com . May 19, 2007, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Alex Lowe: Neill the perennial loser eyes first cup. In: independent.co.uk . December 12, 2007, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Lucas Neill - Player Profiles. (No longer available online.) In: whufc.com . Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Scott McLeod: Neill Signs In. (No longer available online.) In: evertonfc.com . September 17, 2009, archived from the original ; accessed on May 27, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Australians with the most appearances in the Premier League on Transfermarkt.de . Last accessed: May 27, 2020.
  6. ^ Neill's Al Jazira win President's Cup. In: matildas.com.au . April 24, 2012, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Australia national football team statistics and records: youngest players (English) at 11v11.com . Last access: May 25, 2020.
  8. ↑ a b Lucas Neill (English) on 11v11.com . Select the "International matches" tab. Last access: May 25, 2020.
  9. ↑ Young Socceroos 1997 Matches (English) on ozfootball.net . Last access: May 26, 2020.
  10. ↑ Jubilant Socceroos achieve their destiny. (No longer available online.) In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation . November 17, 2005, archived from the original on March 13, 2007 ; accessed on May 25, 2020 (English).
  11. ^ Neill becomes 50th player to captain Australia. In: socceroos.com.au . October 6, 2006, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Michael Cain: Mark Viduka breaks silence over Socceroos' Asian Cup debacle, international retirement. In: espn.com . April 5, 2020, accessed on May 27, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Match report Japan - Australia, July 21, 2007 - Asian Cup 2007 on transfermarkt.de . Last access: May 25, 2020.
  14. ↑ Record-hungry and patient goal scorers. (No longer available online.) In: fifa.com . June 12, 2013, archived from the original on April 5, 2016 ; accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  15. ↑ a b c Bankruptcy, bitterness and hiding in Woolies: The sad, baffling Lucas Neill mystery. In: news.com.au . April 7, 2020, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Dominic Bossi and Megan Levy: Lucas Neill gestures to crowd after boos during Socceroos win. In: smh.com.au . November 19, 2013, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Vince Rugari: 'He's as passionate as always': Neill ends exile to join Socceroos group. In: smh.com.au . May 21, 2020, accessed on May 27, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Profile: Lucas Neill (English) on topendsports.com . Last access: May 16, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Neill, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney