Louis Brain

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Louis Brain
Personal information
Full name Louis Karl Brain
Date of birth (1982-05-09) 9 May 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Birmingham, England
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Modbury Jets
1997–1998
SASI
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2002 Adelaide City 59 (7)
1999 →
Para Hills Knights
(loan)		 4 (0)
2002–2003
Sydney United
 22 (1)
2003 Brisbane Strikers 25 (3)
2003–2004
Modbury Jets
 29 (7)
2005–2006 Adelaide United 17 (3)
2006
Adelaide Raiders
 3 (0)
2006–2007
Modbury Jets
 20 (4)
2007
Dandenong Thunder
 23 (7)
2008–2011
MetroStars
 56 (7)
2012
Enfield City
 15 (2)
Total 273 (41)
International career
1998–1999
Australia U17
 17 (5)
2001
Australia U20
 7 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Louis Karl Brain (born 9 May 1982) is a former professional

U20
national teams.

Club career

Born in

Para Hills Knights
in the SAPL before returning to Adelaide City for the 1999–2000 season. In the three seasons that followed, Brain made a total of 53 appearances and scored 6 goals for Adelaide, but his match time was still being affected by international commitments.

After Adelaide finished second-last in 2001–02,

Joshua Rose and then scored one himself with a brilliant individual effort to make the score 3–1 in favour of Brisbane.[7] The match finished with Brisbane winning 4–1, but Adelaide progressed via the away goals rule
.

In February 2005, Brain elected to move back to his home city, and was signed by

Adelaide Olympic saw the Jets ejected from the competition.[11]

International career

Louis Brain began his international representative career with the Australian under-17 team, the Joeys, in 1998. He scored two goals in a 4–0 victory over

penalty shootout after the match finished at 0-0.[17]

Brain made his debut for the Young Socceroos (under-20) in 2001, playing 30 minutes against Japan during the East Asian Games.[18] In the following match, a 6–0 win over Guam, Brain made his first start for the Young Socceroos, celebrating by scoring his first U-20 international goal in the 12th minute, following by a second in the 48th.[19] Australia reached the final of the competition, but fell to Japan 2–1. Mid-year, Brain was selected in the 18-man squad for the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship in Argentina.[20] He played just once in the tournament, the first half of Australia's 1–1 draw with Angola which put the team through to the second round.[18]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "1999 National Soccer League results". OzSoccer. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  2. ^ "1998–99 Season NSL Table". OzSoccer. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  3. ^ "Adelaide City appearances for 1998–99". OzSoccer. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  4. ^ "2001–2002 Season NSL Table". OzSoccer. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  5. ^ "Sydney United roster for 2002–03". OzSoccer. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  6. ^ "Brisbane Strikers playing roster for 2003–04". OzSoccer. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  7. ^ Demack, Andrew. "Playoff Report – Brisbane Strikers vs Adelaide United". OzSoccer. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  8. Sydney Morning Herald
    . Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  9. ^ "Adelaide use their Brain to down Victory". ABC Sport. 9 September 2005. Archived from the original on 14 September 2005. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  10. ^ "Coach announces changes to AUFC squad". 21 April 2006. Archived from the original on 29 August 2006. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  11. ^ Lato, Daniel (6 August 2006). "Modbury will contest cup ejection". AdelaideNow. Retrieved 8 September 2006. [dead link‍]
  12. ^ "Joeys 1998 Matches". OzSoccer. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  13. ^ "Joeys 1999 Matches". OzSoccer. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  14. ^ "Bahrain 0 Australia 1". Bahrain Tribune. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  15. ^ "New Zealand 1999 – Teams: Australia". FIFA. Archived from the original on 7 March 2006. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  16. ^ "New Zealand 1999 – Disciplinary". FIFA. Archived from the original on 5 September 2006. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  17. ^ "Match Report: Australia – Brazil". FIFA. Archived from the original on 8 March 2006. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  18. ^ a b "Young Socceroos 2001 Matches". OzSoccer. Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  19. Soccer Australia
    . Retrieved 8 September 2006.
  20. ^ "Argentina 2001 – Teams: Australia". FIFA. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2006.

References

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis_Brain&oldid=1257278425"