Paul Reid (soccer player, 1979)

Paul Reid
Reid as a test player for Sydney FC (2012)
Personnel
Surname	Paul James Reid
birthday	July 6, 1979
place of birth	Sydney ,  Australia
size	178 cm
position	External defense, midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Macarthur Rams
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1998	Macarthur Rams	1 0(0)
1998-2002	Wollongong Wolves	96 (17)
2002-2004	Bradford City	8 0(2)
2004-2008	Brighton & Hove Albion	94 0(5)
2008-2011	Adelaide United	55 0(3)
2012	Melbourne Heart	4 0(0)
2012	INSEE Police United
2012–	Sydney FC	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1999	Australia U-20
2009	Australia	2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of September 22, 2012

Paul James Reid (born July 6, 1979 in Sydney ) is an Australian football player in the service of the Australian first division club Sydney FC . Reid won two Australian championships and played in England for six years.

Club career

Reid came in 1998 from his youth club Macarthur Rams in the National Soccer League to the Wollongong Wolves , with whom he won the Australian Championship in 2000 and 2001 and the Oceania Club Championship in 2000/01 . When he won the title in 2000, Reid saved the Wolves in extra time with his goal to equalize 3: 3 in the 89th minute, in the subsequent penalty shoot-out he scored as the penultimate shooter to 7: 6 final score. The two-time championship team around Reid, Scott Chipperfield , Matt Horsley , Sasho Petrovski , Alvin Ceccoli and Stuart Young are among the strongest in NSL history, but broke apart after winning the second title and Reid joined the English second division club Bradford City in 2002 .

There he played with a monthly contract on probation and scored both goals in his starting eleven in a 2-1 win over Norwich City . Despite this performance, Reid was out most of the season, only in March 2003 he came again to a number of missions and received a new one-year contract at the end of the season. Thrown back by an injury and loss of form, he was not considered under coach Nicky Law or his successor Bryan Robson in 2003/04 and only came to the reserve team until March 2004, before Robson, like his compatriot Gareth Edds , gave him the transfer clearance and so on a free transfer to Football League One to the promotion candidates Brighton & Hove Albion enabled. There Reid played his way into the team for the last days of the season and was also involved in all three play-off games, which resulted in a 1-0 win over Bristol City in front of 65,000 spectators at Cardiffer Millennium Stadium with promotion to football League Championship ended.

At Brighton, Reid often played as a right full-back, but was also used in his preferred position in right midfield and as a left-back. After they just managed to stay in the league in 2004/05 with 20th place, relegation to League One followed a year later while they were in last place in the table. He started the 2007/08 season again as a right full-back and scored two goals with his permanent offensive urge in the first twelve missions before a cruciate ligament rupture kept him away from the game for more than half a year. When he returned to training in April 2007, he also suffered an ankle injury that forced him to take a six-week break and thus to end the season prematurely. In the 2007/08 season, Reid was not spared injury problems and had to struggle with knee and groin problems. During the entire season he played only nine competitive games for the first team, four times he was on the starting line-up. With the reserve team, Reid, who also received British citizenship during the season, meanwhile won the Sussex Senior Cup . The final game there was also his last appearance for Brighton, as he was not offered a contract extension by coach Dean Wilkins in addition to long-time team members Kerry Mayo , Gary Hart and Guy Butters .

Reid before a game with Adelaide United (2010)

Although he received from Wilkins' successor Micky Adams , who took over the coaching position at Brighton only a short time later, the chance to recommend himself in the pre-season for a new contract, he succeeded in doing so at Brighton just as little as after a trial with Hereford United . Ultimately, Reid returned to Australia after six years in England and joined Adelaide United in the A-League , which emerged in 2005 as the successor to the National Soccer League, which was discontinued in 2004 . His first season with Adelaide, where he played in defensive midfield, was extremely successful for him: First, with Adelaide in November 2008, he became the first Australian club to reach the final of the AFC Champions League (0: 5 after a return match against Gamba Osaka ) , but despite the defeat there, the club qualified for the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup . At the Club World Cup, Reid played all three tournament games over the full distance and prepared two of the three goals of his team, which finished in fifth place after victories over Waitakere United and Al-Ahly Cairo . In January 2009 Reid made his international debut in the Australian national dress and in February he was with Adelaide in the championship final against Melbourne Victory , which was lost 1-0. The following season stood in stark contrast for Reid; Calf and thigh injuries limited him to eight league appearances in the 2009/10 season , which ended for Adelaide in tenth and last place in the table.

After the regular season of the 2010/11 season , in which Reid played 29 games, he asked for clearance for an immediate move to Sydney FC , who played in the Champions League after the season, before the finals . Adelaide coach Rini Coolen rejected Reid's request, whereupon Reid was not in the squad for the first final game against Wellington Phoenix (1-0). The parties involved disagreed about the reasons for not considering this, while Coolen presented this as Reid's wish, Reid denied this presentation and cited problems during the contract negotiations as being decisive for his exclusion. Reid was part of the starting line-up again in the following elimination final against Gold Coast United , but in the 3-2 defeat he played his last competitive game for Adelaide. A little later, the club's management announced that after Reid had rejected an initial contract offer, they would no longer conduct any further contract negotiations with the player.

In January 2012, Reid signed a short-term contract with the A-League club Melbourne Heart to replace the injured Fred and played four games in the following weeks before he was replaced by Phil Stubbins , former assistant coach of Adelaide United, in March 2012 . was plotted to the Thai first division club INSEE Police United . His trip to Thailand lasted only a few months and after a lengthy trial with Sydney FC, he finally signed a one-year deal with the club from his hometown.

National team

Reid, who briefly belonged to Australia's U-20 squad in 1999 , was invited to the Australian national team for the first time in October 2008 for a 35-player training camp before a World Cup qualifier against Qatar , but did not make it into the matchday squad. In January 2009, at the age of 29, Reid made his debut against Indonesia in a qualifier for the 2011 Asian Cup in the national team (final score 0-0), when the national team was made up exclusively of players from the domestic A-League. At the beginning of March 2009, under the same conditions, he formed the Australian midfield together with Matt McKay and Tom Pondeljak in another qualifying game against Kuwait , but after the 1-0 defeat there, national coach Pim Verbeek relied on European region players again for the other games.

successes

at club level:

• Australian champion: 1999/2000, 2000/01
• Oceania Club Championship: 2000/01

Individually:

• Nomination for the PFA Team of the Year : 2008/09 (substitute bench)

Web links

• Paul Reid in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile at Adelaide United
• Profile at ozfootball.net
• Paul Reid in the soccerbase.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ozfootball.net: 2000-2001 Season Playoff Series Matches
2. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Can Gold Coast Be Stopped? (Aug. 24, 2009)
3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2003/2004 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2003, ISBN 1-85291-651-6 , pp. 354 .
4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2004/2005 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2004, ISBN 1-85291-660-5 , pp. 340 .
5. ↑ sbs.com.au: Edds, Reid can leave  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 4, 2010  
6. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2006-07 . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 1-84596-111-0 , pp. 339 .
7. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2007-08 . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2007, ISBN 978-1-84596-246-3 , pp. 339 .
8. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2008-09 . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2008, ISBN 978-1-84596-324-8 , pp. 348 .
9. ↑ theargus.co.uk: Albion release long-serving trio (May 6, 2008)
10. ↑ seagulls.co.uk: Reid Training at Hereford (July 11, 2008) ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Adelaide Sign Seagulls Star (July 29, 2008)
12. ↑ FIFA (Ed.): FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2008 - Report and Statistics . Zurich 2009, pp. 41, 49
13. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Reid May Not Be Reds Ready Yet (Nov. 12, 2009)
14. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Reid 'Walks Out On Reds' (Feb. 17, 2011)
15. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Reid: I Have Not Walked Out (Feb. 17, 2011)
16. ↑ adelaidenow.com.au: Reid walks out on Reds after AFC transfer denied (Feb. 17, 2011)
17. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Reid Back In Reds Selection Mix (Feb. 20, 2011)
18. ↑ adelaidenow.com.au: Reluctant Reid in Reds' final plans (Feb. 22, 2011)
19. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Adelaide Confirm Reid Exit (March 2, 2011)
20. ↑ adelaidenow.com.au: United's Reid shown the door (March 2, 2011)
21. ↑ heraldsun.com.au: Former Adelaide star Paul Reid joins Melbourne Heart (Jan. 19, 2012)
22. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Paul Reid: Why I Chose Asia ... (March 13, 2012)
23. ↑ smh.com.au: Better late than never: Reid delighted to join Sky Blues finally (22 Sep 2012)
24. ↑ sbs.com.au: Cahill and Kewell headline bloated Socceroos (October 1, 2008) ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2012 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. 
25. ↑ fifa.com: Match Report: Australia - Qatar 4-0