Noah Hickey

Noah Hickey
Reception of the World Masters Games 2017
Personnel
birthday	June 9, 1978
place of birth	Auckland ,  New Zealand
size	175 cm
position	right midfield, right winger
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Central United
1999-2001	Football Kingz	34 (12)
2001-2003	Tampere United	42 (13)
2004	Football Kingz	6 0(2)
2004-2005	Waitakere United
2005-2007	New Zealand Knights	35 0(2)
2007–	Gisborne City
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1997-2007	New Zealand	33 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Noah Hickey (born June 9, 1978 in Auckland ) is a former New Zealand soccer player .

Club career

Hickey made his debut at the age of 15 with New Zealand club Central United . In 1997, he was named New Zealand's Young Player of the Year and won the prestigious Chatham Cup with Central United , scoring two goals in the 5-0 final win over Dunedin Technical . In 1999 he joined the newly formed Football Kingz , who participated as a New Zealand representative in the Australian National Soccer League (NSL). In 2001 he moved to Finland to Tampere United, with whom he won the league title in his first year and at that time a New Zealander was already under contract with Lee Jones . There he experienced his most memorable game, according to his own account, when he scored the 1-0 winner with his hand in the derby against Haka Valkeakoski .

In early 2004 he returned to New Zealand and played a few games for the Football Kingz in the NSL, which was then dissolved. He spent the following months at Waitakere United before returning to the Kingz in 2005, who now competed under the name New Zealand Knights in the newly created professional league A-League . In both seasons he finished last in the table with the Knights, in the first season the team could only get 6 points from 21 games.

Since 2007 he has played in a regional division of New Zealand for Gisborne City .

National team

Hickey made his international debut in May 1997 in a 1-0 loss to Papua New Guinea. In 2003 he took part with the New Zealand national team in the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup in France and was used in all three preliminary round matches. After a trip to South America by the national team, he announced his retirement from professional sport. One of the reasons he cited was that the relationship with Ricki Herbert , coach of the national team and Wellington Phoenix (of which he had a contract offer), deteriorated during the international trip.

Web links

• Noah Hickey in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Noah Hickey . New Zealand Football, archived from the original onAugust 22, 2007; accessed on September 2, 2014(English, original website no longer available).