Nick Carle

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Nick Carle
Personal information
Full name Nicholas Alberto Carle
Date of birth November 23, 1981 (1981-11-23) (age 26)
Place of birth    Sydney, Australia
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Playing position Attacking Midfielder
Club information
Current club Bristol City
Number 10
Youth clubs
Blacktown City
Sydney Olympic
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1997-2002
2002-2003
2003-2005
2005-2007
2007
2008-present		 Sydney Olympic
Troyes AC
Marconi Stallions
Newcastle United Jets
Gençlerbirliği SK
Bristol City		 86 (12)
05 0(0)
24 0(6)
43 0(7)
16 0(1)
17 0(0)   
National team2
1997
1998-2001
1998-2004
2004-present		 Australia U-17
Australia U-20
Australia U-23
Australia		 05 0(7)
16 0(9)
16 0(2)
07 0(0)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 19 January 2008.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 23 October 2007.
* Appearances (Goals)

Nicholas Alberto Carle, more commonly known as Nick Carle or Nicky Carle (born November 23, 1981 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player of Chilean origin.[1][2] He currently plays for Bristol City F.C. and is a left footed attacking midfielder.

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[edit] Club career

Futsal has been a huge part of Carle's footballing development and can be seen in the style of game he plays. As a junior Carle won 5 national futsal titles.

During his days as a teenage schoolboy, he played football for his high school, Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield. Even at this stage, Carle displayed much promise and potential as a footballer. His most notable football achievement at school level was helping his school win the much coveted Bill Turner Cup competition in 1996.

Carle began his career as a 15 year old at Sydney Olympic in the NSL. He had a brief stint at French club Troyes before returning to Australia with Marconi Stallions.

When the A-League was formed in 2005 Carle joined the Newcastle Jets. He starred for the Jets in the first two seasons of the A-League with his fancy footwork and exceptional close-control, and he became undoubtedly the favourite player of the Jets fans. Carle played as an attacking midfielder during his time at the Newcastle Jets and wore the number 10 jersey.

In February 2007 Carle won the prestigious Johnny Warren Medal for the players' player of the year for his performance throughout the A-League 2006-07 season, beating Melbourne Victory's Daniel Allsopp, Archie Thompson and Kevin Muscat.[3] Carle also won the goal of the year award for his 70-metre run followed by a strike from 20 metres with the outside of his left boot, which proved to be the winning goal in the Round 10 clash against Adelaide United (Adelaide had only seconds earlier missed a penalty to win the match). He was also named 'A-League Player of the Year' on popular Australian football site pintculture.com, beating Melbourne Victory player Kevin Muscat by one vote.[4]

At the end of the 2006-07 season Carle expressed his concern that the A-League season was not long enough. He felt that playing more games would improve his chances of selection for the national team and said that offers from Europe would be tempting. Despite being initially linked with Fenerbahçe in the media, Carle eventually signed with Socceroo Josip Skoko's former club Gençlerbirliği.[5] The Turkcell Super League club paid a transfer fee of about $650,000 for Carle, with the Newcastle Jets also receiving a percentage of any further transfer fees should Carle be sold by the Turkish club.

In early January 2008 Carle transferred to Football League Championship side Bristol City for an undisclosed fee after impressing against Nigeria in an international friendly.[2][6] He signed a contract for three and a half years.[7] Bristol City were in third position in the Football League Championship at the time, giving Carle a good chance of playing in the Premier League the next season. Carle made the move because he was unhappy at Gençlerbirliği, especially because he was not able to see his family enough.[8][9]

[edit] International career

Carle began his international career playing for Australia at under-17 level before representing Australia at the under-20s 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship. He also later played for the under-23s but missed out on selection for the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

He earned his first senior cap against Venezuela in 2004 coming on as a substitute in the 84th minute replacing David Zdrilic. However it was his only appearance for the senior national team for three years. Carle regularly missed selection under Frank Farina and did not feature at all under Guus Hiddink. Carle's form for the Jets in the 2006-07 A-League season saw calls for new coach Graham Arnold to bring him back into the national team. Carle ended three years in exile from the national squad by coming on as a substitute in a friendly against China in March 2007, and also made an appearance against Uruguay in June.

Graham Arnold selected Carle in the Australian squad for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. He made an appearance as a substitute during Australia's match against Japan, scoring in the penalty shoot out.

Carle made his first starting appearance for the Socceroos against Nigeria at Craven Cottage, London on 18 November 2007. He put in an exceptional performance along with fellow former A-League player David Carney who scored the winning goal.[10]

[edit] Honours

Personal Honours:

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Carle Set to Sign", Bristol City F.C., 2008-01-01. Retrieved on 2008-05-21. 
  2. ^ a b "Carle set for Bristol City move", BBC Sport, 2008-01-01. Retrieved on 2008-05-21. 
  3. ^ Henderson, Philip. "Carle trumps Victory trio", Fox Sports (Australia), February 27, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-01-03. 
  4. ^ Wallace, Stewart. "Nick Carle Takes Out The Arok!", pintculture.com, February 12, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-01-03. 
  5. ^ "It's Genclerbirligi for Carle", The World Game, 2007-06-17. Retrieved on 2007-01-03. 
  6. ^ Lewis, David. "Carle makes Bristol switch", The World Game, 2007-01-03. Retrieved on 2007-01-03. 
  7. ^ "Nick Signs On At City", Bristol City F.C., 2008-01-04. Retrieved on 2008-01-05. 
  8. ^ Gardiner, James. "Bristol City next port of call for Carle", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2007-01-01. Retrieved on 2007-01-03. 
  9. ^ Gardiner, James. "Carle in nick of time for Bristol", The Herald, 2008-01-03. Retrieved on 2008-01-04. 
  10. ^ "Carney special stuns Nigeria", Football Federation Australia, 2007-11-18. Retrieved on 2008-01-04. 

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Awards
Preceded by
Bobby Despotovski		 Johnny Warren Medallist
2006/07		 Succeeded by
Joel Griffiths
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Bristol City F.C. – current squad

1 Basso • 2 Orr • 3 McAllister • 4 Fontaine • 5 McCombe • 6 Carey • 7 Murray • 8 Noble • 9 Brooker • 10 Carle • 11 McIndoe • 12 Myrie-Williams • 14 Skuse • 16 Keogh • 18 B. Wilson • 20 Betsy • 21 Artus • 22 Weale • 23 Trundle • 24 Ribeiro • 25 Elliott • 26 J. Wilson • 27 Walker • 29 Sproule • 30 Plummer • 32 Henderson • 33 L. Johnson • 35 Adebola • Manager: G. Johnson