Mark Byrnes
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Mark John Byrnes (born 8 February 1982) is an Australian footballer who plays for APIA Leichhardt Tigers in the New South Wales Premier League.
Club career
After a short stint with SV Salzburg in Austria, he won two NSL championship medals in a row with Perth Glory.
Due to the demise of the National Soccer League after the 2003/2004 season, in July of that year he signed with Finnish club, FC Hämeenlinna.[1] He returned to Australia to form part of Melbourne Victory's A-League 2005–06 squad,[2] but found his chances limited by the emergence of younger defenders Adrian Leijer and Daniel Piorkowski.[3][4][5] He was part of Melbourne's A-League championship winning side in 2006–2007. However at the end of the season, on 1 March 2007, he was released by the club.[6]
In 2007, he was announced as a short term signing for Victorian Premier League side Richmond Eagles for three matches.[7] In 2008, Byrnes went on trial with English lower league football clubs Port Vale and Luton Town. He impressed during an overseas pre-season tour to the extent that he would have been offered a contract had he not suffered a minor injury during the last tour match.[8][9]
On 23 September 2009 he was signed by Gold Coast United as a four-week injury replacement for Daniel Piorkowski.[10]
International career
He was captain of the Australian Under-17 team which reached the final of the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship.
Honours
Perth Glory
- NSL Championship: 2002–03, 2003–04
Australia U-20
Australia U-17:
- FIFA U-17 World Championship: 1999 (Runners-up)
References
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External links
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- Australian people of Irish descent
- Men's association football defenders
- Australian expatriate men's soccer players
- Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- Expatriate men's footballers in Finland
- A-League Men players
- National Soccer League (Australia) players
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- Veikkausliiga players
- FC Hämeenlinna players
- FC Red Bull Salzburg players
- Melbourne Victory FC players
- Parramatta Power SC players
- Perth Glory FC players
- Sydney Olympic FC players
- New South Wales Institute of Sport alumni
- Gold Coast United FC players
- Soccer players from Sydney
- Australian men's soccer players
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen