Mark Lee (soccer player)

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Mark Lee
Personnel
birthday May 31, 1979
place of birth Consett ,  England
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Middlesbrough FC
1995-1997 Scarborough FC
2000-2002 Lynn University
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1995-1997 Scarborough FC 0 (0)
1997-1998 Hibernian Edinburgh 0 (0)
1999 Swan IC
2002 Spennymoor United
2003 Swan IC
2004-2005 Western Knights
2005-2006 Bayswater City SC
2006-2008 ECU Joondalup
2006-2007 →  Perth Glory  (loan) 6 (0)
2007 →  Perth Glory  (loan) 2 (0)
2008-2009 Perth Glory 2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Mark Lee (born May 31, 1979 in Consett , County Durham ) is a retired English football player who spent most of his career in Australia .

Career

Lee grew up in the north-east of England and was trained in football among others at Middlesbrough FC before he was accepted into the youth training scheme of the fourth division club Scarborough in 1995. His competitive debut for Scarborough gave Lee at the age of 16 years and 160 days in the Football League Trophy on November 7, 1995, when he was in a 2-1 loss to Preston North End on the starting line-up. With this use, Lee, who at that time had only played two games for Scarborough's reserve team, became the youngest debutant in the club's history. After he signed his first professional contract in 1997 at the age of 18, he moved a little later to the Scottish club Hibernian Edinburgh , but did not make the breakthrough there and left the club a year later. As a result, Lee played in English non-league football with the Blyth Spartans , Gateshead FC and in 2002 also with Spennymoor United . In 1999 he completed an unsuccessful trial training at the Australian first division club Perth Glory and then played instead in Perth for the Italian club Swan IC , with whom he rose in 1999 to the semi-professional Western Australia Premier League , the top division of the state of Western Australia . In 2000 he took a football scholarship to Lynn University , Florida and graduated in 2003 with a degree in sports management .

He then returned to Perth with his wife and won the Western Australia Cup (Boral Cup) with Swan IC in 2003 with a 2-1 win against Perth SC . For the 2004 season, Lee moved within the league to the Western Knights and won with them in his first season, in addition to the championship, the Champion-of-Champions competition. After he did not get over a place on the bench at the beginning of the following season, he left the Knights in mid-2005 and moved to league rivals Bayswater City SC . There the outstanding performance of the standard specialist ensured that he was awarded the Gold Medal as State League Player of the Year at the end of the season . He received further confirmation of his athletic performance at the end of 2005 when he was one of seven footballers for the Western Australian's Sports Star award, alongside six pros from Perth Glory - Bobby Despotovski , Simon Colosimo , Matt Horsley , Damian Mori , Jason Petkovic and Nick Ward of the Year was nominated.

Lee led Bayswater as captain in the 2006 season, but left the club after a poor start to the season in May and joined ECU Joondalup . In December 2006, Lee received an offer from A-League club Perth Glory and signed a short-term contract to replace the injured Bobby Despotovski. At Perth, Lee played the last six games of the 2006/07 season as a left defender under coach Ron Smith . In November 2007 there was a renewed commitment by Perth Glory, together with Ante Kovacevic from Floreat Athena , Lee received a one-week short-term contract and was used in the games against the Central Coast Mariners (0: 1) and Adelaide United (1: 1).

After a largely consisting of playtesters the State League squad he in March 2008 (including Tommi Tomich , Josip Magdic , Marc Anthony and Andrija Jukic ) from Perth Glory to three friendlies to China traveled he finally received in May 2008 from Perth coach David Mitchell a one - Annual contract offered. With the signing of Lee was the first time since his stint at Hibernian back to full-time professional, but still kept his position with Football West . After he was on the starting line-up on the first two match days, Mitchell did not give him any further service time in the professional team and only came to a few appearances in the youth team in the National Youth League . As expected, the club decided not to extend the contract at the end of the season.

From 2003 to 2006, Lee worked full-time as a soccer coach for the youth development programs Glory Zone and Jungle Soccer . He then took on the position of Youth Development Officer at the West Australian Football Association for three years . Lee decided against continuing his football career in 2009 and a little later also quit his permanent position at Football West in order to open his own football school with Mark Lee Football Coaching .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glenda Rollin & Jack Rollin (Eds.): Rothmans Football Yearbook 1996-97 . Headline Book Publishing, London 1996, ISBN 0-7472-7781-8 , pp. 589 .
  2. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1996, ISBN 1-85291-571-4 , pp. 144 .
  3. ↑ a b footballwa.net: LEE DELIGHTED WITH A-LEAGUE OPPORTUNITY (Jan. 30, 2007)
  4. ↑ lusa.u-net.com: UNIBOND NEWS (Jan. 11, 2002) ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lusa.u-net.com
  5. ↑ a b footballwa.net: NATIONAL LEAGUE COMES CALLING FOR LEE (Dec. 14, 2006)
  6. ↑ a b c footballwa.net: LEE THRILLED WITH GOLD MEDAL SUCCESS (Oct. 28, 2005)
  7. ↑ footballwa.net: SWAN LIFT CUP IN TENSION FILLED FINAL (Sep. 14, 2003)
  8. ↑ footballwa.net: THERE WAS MOVEMENT AT THE STATION ... (June 30, 2005)
  9. ↑ footballwa.net: SEVEN SHORT-LISTED FOR SPORT STAR AWARD (Dec. 27, 2005)
  10. ↑ footballwa.net: OUR BEST IS YET TO COME SAYS BAYSWATER CAPTAIN (Feb. 9, 2006)
  11. ↑ footballwa.net: LEE HEADS NORTH TO JOONDALUP (May 11, 2006)
  12. ↑ footballwa.net: FAMILIAR FACES RETURN FOR GLORY (Nov. 15, 2007)
  13. ↑ footballwa.net: CHANCE TO IMPRESS ON CHINESE TOUR (March 1, 2008)
  14. ↑ footballwa.net: A-LEAGUE CONTRACT WITHIN REACH FOR LEE (March 18, 2008)
  15. ↑ footballwa.net: LEE THRILLED WITH GLORY OPPORTUNITY (July 23, 2008)
  16. ↑ footballwa.net: LEE PLANS FOR LIFE AFTER GLORY (Apr. 9, 2009)
  17. ↑ footballwa.net: LEE TAKES UP DEVELOPMENT ROLE WITH FOOTBALL WEST (July 3, 2006)
  18. ↑ footballwest.com.au: Mark Lee leaves Football West (July 6, 2009) ( Memento April 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in the Web Archive
  19. ↑ pfa.net.au: PFA support helps Mark Lee further develop his football training school (July 6, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Consett