Tim Cahill
| Tim Cahill | ||
 Tim Cahill (2017)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Timothy Filiga Cahill | |
| birthday | 6th December 1979 | |
| place of birth | Sydney , Australia | |
| size | 178 cm | |
| position |
Attacking Midfield Second Striker |
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| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| -1996 | Sydney Olympic | |
| 1996-1997 | Sydney United | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1997-2004 | Millwall FC | 219 (52) |
| 2004–2012 | Everton FC | 226 (56) |
| 2012-2015 | New York Red Bulls | 71 (16) |
| 2015-2016 | Shanghai Shenhua | 28 (11) |
| 2016 | Hangzhou Navel Greentown | 17 (4) |
| 2016-2017 | Melbourne City FC | 28 (11) |
| 2018 | Millwall FC | 10 (0) |
| 2018-2019 | FC Jamshedpur | 11 (2) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1994 | Samoa U-20 | 2 (0) |
| 2004 | Australia U-23 | 5 (1) |
| 2004-2018 | Australia | 107 (50) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Timothy Filiga "Tim" Cahill (born December 6, 1979 in Sydney , New South Wales ) is an Australian football player . He played in England each a total of eight years for the Millwall FC and Everton FC and scorer of the Australian national team . He can play in midfield or in attack . Despite his height of 1.78 meters, Cahill is an excellent header player and has great jumping ability .
career
society
Cahill was born in Sydney to a Samoan and an Englishman with Irish roots and played rugby as a child . Up to the age of 18 he played in various youth teams in his hometown and hometown, before he moved to London in 1997 at the age of 17 for the English third division club Millwall . In the 2000/01 season he rose to the 2nd division with Millwall and reached the FA Cup final in the 2003/04 season , in which they lost 3-0 to Manchester United . He then moved to Everton , for whom he came to 226 games and 56 goals in the Premier League in eight years .
In July 2012, Cahill moved to the New York Red Bulls in the United States . On October 20, 2013, he scored the fastest goal in Major League Soccer in eight seconds in the game against Houston Dynamo . In February 2015, Cahill left the Red Bulls and moved to Shanghai Shenhua in the Chinese Super League . After his coach Gregorio Manzano informed him that he was not planning with him for the coming season, Cahill moved to Hangzhou Greentown in February 2016 .
In August 2016, Cahill returned to his native Australia and signed a three-year deal with A-League club Melbourne City FC . This stipulates that Cahill should be active as a player for the first two years and then take on a role in the coaching team. In January 2018, however, he joined his former club Millwall FC and finished eighth in the table with the second division promoted.
National team
Tim Cahill played two caps for the U-20s of the Samoan national team in 1994 at the age of 14 because his mother is from Samoa . According to the FIFA rules of the time, he was therefore no longer allowed to play for another nation. Due to a rule change in 2004, according to which players are no longer allowed to play for another national team after having completed an A international match, he was eligible to play for the Australian Football Association .
On March 30, 2004, Cahill made his debut in the Australian national football team in a friendly against South Africa on Loftus Road in London . With Australia he was able to celebrate winning the Oceania Championship in 2004 and was together with the New Zealander Vaughan Coveny top scorer, although he remained without use in both finals against the Solomon Islands . In August 2004, Cahill took part with the Australian U-23 national team in the Olympic football tournament in Athens , in which Australia was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Iraq. At the end of the year, Cahill was named Oceania's Footballer of the Year .
In the summer of 2005, he took part with Australia in the 2005 Confederations Cup in Germany , but was eliminated in the preliminary round.
On June 12, 2006 he scored the first two goals for Australia in a soccer world championship in Kaiserslautern in the game against Japan (3-1) . Cahill was used in all four games at the 2006 World Cup . He also played for Australia at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , but received the red card in the group game against Germany and was eliminated from the game. After serving his sentence, he came back in the last group game against Serbia and scored the opening goal for the Australians.
At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , he scored the next goal in Australia's 3-1 defeat in the opening match against Chile . Cahill also scored 1: 1 in the following game against the Netherlands . With five goals he is Australia's most successful goalscorer at a World Cup . He missed the third group game against Spain due to a yellow card suspension .
On March 5, 2014, he scored two goals in a 3: 4 against Ecuador and has been the sole Australian top scorer ever since.
After Australia in the Asia Cup 2011 the final against Japan had lost, Cahill was the tournament in 2015 one final victory for: at home after a 2 extension against South Korea for Asian champions crowned. As Asian champions, the Australians also took part in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup . There he played his 100th international match against Chile on June 25th. But he retired with his team after the group stage.
On October 10, 2017, he scored his 50th international goal in the Asian playoff match for qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in extra time against Syria . It was the 2-1 winner with which Australia qualified for the playoff games against the fourth in the CONCACAF qualification. Previously, he had already balanced the Syrian leadership. There Australia prevailed against Honduras and qualified for the World Cup. Although Australia was eliminated last in Group C, Cahill was substituted on for Tomi Juric in the 53rd minute of the last group game against Peru and was thus used in his fourth World Cup. After the World Cup, he ended his active career in the national team at the age of 38 and as the current record scorer in his country.
successes
National team
- Oceania Champion (1): 2004
- Asian Champion (1): 2015
Web links
- Tim Cahill in the weltfussball.de database
- Tim Cahill in the soccerbase.com database
- Profile at the Australian Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Football in the USA: Cahill scores fastest goal in professional league history. Spiegel Online , October 21, 2013, accessed October 21, 2013 .
- ↑ Tim Cahill to stay in China theguardian.com, February 22, 2016, accessed August 18, 2016.
- ↑ Tim Cahill to Melbourne City foxsports.com.au, August 11, 2016, accessed August 18, 2016.
- ↑ Cahill ponders court action . British Broadcasting Corporation , February 14, 2002, accessed March 29, 2016.
- ^ History made in more ways than one at The Den. Archived from the original on March 6, 2014 ; accessed on March 29, 2016 .
- ↑ fifa.com: Australia wins playoff duel - Syria mourns
- ↑ Match report on transfermarkt.de, accessed on July 17, 2018.
- ↑ Australia's record scorer Cahill ends his career in the national team on transfermarkt.de, accessed on July 17, 2018.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cahill, Tim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cahill, Timothy Filiga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th December 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney , New South Wales , Australia |