Nick Ward (soccer player)

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Nick Ward
Personnel
Surname Nicholas Andrew Ward
birthday March 24, 1985
place of birth Perth ,  Australia
size 183 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Kingsway Olympic
2003 Australian Institute of Sport
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2002 ECU Joondalup
2003-2004 Perth Glory 2 (0)
2004 Stirling Lions
2005-2006 Perth Glory 21 (5)
2006-2007 Queens Park Rangers 20 (1)
2007 →  Brighton & Hove Albion  (loan) 8 (1)
2007-2010 Melbourne Victory 40 (4)
2010–2012 Wellington Phoenix 45 (4)
2012 →  Iraklis Saloniki  (loan)
2012-2013 Perth Glory 23 (2)
2013– Newcastle Jets 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2004-2005 Australia U-20 16 (4)
2007-2008 Australia U-23 16 (2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of January 16, 2014

Nicholas "Nick" Ward (born March 24, 1985 in Perth ) is an Australian football player . The midfielder has been under contract with the Newcastle Jets in the A-League since 2013 .

Club career

As a teenager, Ward played for ECU Joondalup in the Western Australia Premier League , the top division of the state of Western Australia . After a year at the Australian Institute of Sport , he was signed by Perth Glory and came to two missions in their championship season.

After a stint with the Stirling Lions , he returned to Perth Glory to play in the newly formed professional league A-League . In the premiere season he completed all 21 season games with Perth and scored five goals. This earned the 20 year old the “Young Player of the Year” award. After the season he completed some trial training with lower-class English teams and finally signed a contract with the second division Queens Park Rangers .

In early December 2007, his contract was canceled by mutual agreement after 20 league appearances and a loan period at the third division club Brighton & Hove Albion . Ward returned to Australia and joined the Melbourne Victory that December . From Melbourne he received a two-year contract as a junior marquee player for the 2008/09 season . With a 1-0 win in the championship final against Adelaide United , he won his second Australian league title in 2009. Also a year later Ward reached the championship final with Melbourne, which was lost to arch-rivals Sydney FC 2: 4 on penalties. Although Ward was then part of the regular team during the group stage of the AFC Champions League 2010 and was the only player to play from the start in all six games, coach Ernie Merrick had no use for the midfielder a few months later for the 2010/11 season . Ward therefore moved to New Zealand league rivals Wellington Phoenix in late August 2010 . In July 2011 he was awarded to Iraklis Saloniki in Greece for three months . In the summer of 2012 he left Wellington and moved to Perth Glory on the Australian west coast . After a season in Perth, he moved to the Newcastle Jets for the 2013/14 season .

National team

Ward took part in 2005 with the Australian U-20 selection at the Junior World Cup in the Netherlands. In the preliminary round of his team, he scored one of only two Australian goals in the 1-1 draw in the opening game against Benin. Between 2007 and 2008, the midfielder was regularly used in the Olympic selection , but was not included in the 18-man squad for the 2008 Olympic Games in China with coach Graham Arnold .

successes

at club level:

  • Australian champion: 2003/04, 2008/09
  • A-League Premiership: 2008/09

Individually:

  • A-League Young Player of the Year: 2005/06

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Ward Baffled By Victory Snub (Sep. 9, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Ward, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ward, Nicholas Andrew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Perth