Sean Rooney (soccer player)
| Sean Rooney | ||
 Rooney in a youth game for Sydney FC (2008)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Sean Daniel Rooney | |
| birthday | March 1, 1989 | |
| place of birth | Blacktown , Australia | |
| position | Storm | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2008 | Sydney FC | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2006-2008 | Blacktown City Demons | |
| 2008-2011 | Newcastle United Jets | 30 (3) |
| 2011 | Blacktown City FC | 6 (1) |
| 2011–2012 | Deltras Sidoarjo | |
| 2012 | Blacktown City FC | 10 (7) |
| 2012 | Salgaocar SC | |
| 2013 | Blacktown City FC | |
| 2013– | Bengaluru FC | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2009 | Australia U-20 | |
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1 Only league games are given. As of July 1, 2013 |
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Sean Rooney (born March 1, 1989 in Blacktown ) is an Australian football player .
Career
Rooney was born in 1989 in Blacktown, Australia, the son of an Irishman and an Italian . At the age of 16 he made his adult debut for the Blacktown City Demons in the NSW Premier League , after he decided against a scholarship at the NSW Institute of Sport in order to be able to play regularly in the league to be able to compete for the professional league A-League to be able to recommend. In May 2007, the Australian branch of the football magazine FourFourTwo Rooney in its list of the ten best players in Australia outside of the A-League.
In the summer of 2008 the striker signed a contract with Sydney FC for the youth team in the newly formed National Youth League . After he was the top scorer in the youth league with nine goals from eight missions, the league rival Newcastle United Jets offered him a contract for the professional team to replace the injured striker Jason Naidovski in late 2008 . Rooney accepted the offer and made his professional debut against Queensland Roar on December 14th.
He scored his first competitive goal for the Jets in May 2009 in the AFC Champions League . With a 2-1 winner in the last minute of stoppage time against Beijing Guoan, the Jets finally made it to the round of 16. A month later he signed a new two-year deal with Newcastle.
In March 2009, Rooney was invited to a training camp for the Australian U-20 team for the first time in preparation for the 2009 Junior World Cup in Egypt in September. At the World Cup finals, he was used in all three preliminary round games when the Australian team were eliminated without winning a point.
In the Australian media landscape, Sean Rooney is compared to the English star striker Wayne Rooney because of some similarities , so Sean also has a deep center of gravity, looks stocky and is considered a hot spur.
Web links
- Sean Rooney in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c au.fourfourtwo.com: The 10 best players outside the A-League (May 23, 2007)
- ↑ theherald.com.au: Jets poach Sean Rooney from Sydney FC (Dec. 11, 2008)
- ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Rooney Pens New Deal (June 11, 2009)
- ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Young Roos Camp Squad (March 17, 2009)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rooney, Sean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rooney, Sean Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blacktown |