Robbie Middleby

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Robbie Middleby
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Middleby in the shirt of Sydney FC
Personnel
Surname Robert David Middleby
birthday August 9, 1975
place of birth Newcastle ,  Australia
size 173 cm
position Midfield, full-back
Juniors
Years station
1992-1993 Australian Institute of Sport
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1994 Newcastle Breakers
1994 Adamstown Rosebuds 9 (1)
1994-1996 Wollongong Wolves 35 (1)
1996-1999 KFC Uerdingen 05 27 (0)
1999-2000 Auckland Kingz 21 (1)
2000 Cringila Lions
2000 Carlton SC 8 (0)
2000-2001 Wollongong Wolves 19 (1)
2001-2004 Newcastle United 62 (6)
2005-2009 Sydney FC 61 (3)
2009-2010 North Queensland Fury 21 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Australia U-20
2002 Australia 5 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Robert "Robbie" Middleby (born August 9, 1975 in Newcastle , New South Wales ) is a former Australian football player and since 2011 CEO of Newcastle United Jets FC .

Club career

Middleby played for five different clubs ( Newcastle Breakers , Wollongong Wolves , Auckland Kingz , Carlton SC , Newcastle United ) in the National Soccer League (NSL) between 1993 and 2004 and won with the Wolves in 2001 with a 2-1 win over South Melbourne FC the Australian Championship. Between 1996 and 1999 he played for three years for the German second division club KFC Uerdingen 05 , but only made a total of 27 appearances.

After the dissolution of the NSL at the end of the 2003/04 season, he signed a contract with the newly founded A-League club Sydney FC in early 2005 . With Sydney he won the Oceania Club Championship 2004/05 and took part in the FIFA Club World Cup 2005 , in which he was not used. His first season with Sydney ended with winning the championship with a 1-0 win against the Central Coast Mariners , Middleby came during the season under coach Pierre Littbarski but mostly only for partial appearances.

Under his successor Terry Butcher , the versatile player on the right developed into a core force, although he was out for two months early in the season due to a broken collarbone. At the end of the season he was voted Player of the Year by his teammates. As early as October 2008 it was announced that he would be joining the North Queensland Fury expansion team for the 2009/10 season . There he ended his career as an active footballer.

Since 2011 he has been the Executive Director of Newcastle United Jets FC .

National team

In 1995 Middleby took part with the Australian U-20 selection at the Junior World Cup in Qatar. He stormed alongside Mark Viduka and reached the quarter-finals with the team. There they failed with 1: 2 after extra time to Portugal.

For the finals of the OFC Nations Cup in 2002 he was appointed to the Australian senior team for the first time and came to a total of five appearances over the course of the tournament, including the 0-1 defeat in the final against hosts New Zealand . The five tournament games were Middlebys only national team appearances.

successes

societies

Individually

  • Sydney FC Player of the Year: 2006/07

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c theworldgame.sbs.com.au: North Qld reel in Middleby (October 23, 2008) ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 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 / theworldgame.sbs.com.au
  2. ^ Board and management. In: Newcastle Jets Online. Retrieved February 6, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Middleby, Robbie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Middleby, Robert David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle , New South Wales