Clayton Zane

Clayton Zane

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Club career

Zane was first brought to Europe as a relative unknown by Norwegian team Molde. After scoring no goals in 14 matches he was sold to Lillestrøm. In his first season in Lillestrøm he ended top scorer of the Norwegian Premier League with 17 goals and he was voted Norwegian Player of the Year some weeks later. He was then sold to Belgian club R.S.C. Anderlecht in 2002 where he scored twice in ten games.

International career

Zane represented the Australia national team at the 2001 Confederations Cup and is best remembered for scoring the only goal when Australia defeated subsequent champion France in the group stage. He scored a hat-trick for Australia against Cook Islands in June 2000. Zane was a member of the Australian squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Coaching career

On 9 August 2011, it was announced that Zane had signed a contract to be the coach of the Newcastle Jets W-League team. On 8 June 2012, he was announced as the youth team coach of the Newcastle United Jets Youth Squad. In January 2014 Newcastle Jets head coach Gary van Egmond was sacked due to poor results and Zane was appointed interim head coach until the end of the season. The club chose to appoint Phil Stubbins as head coach of the club for the following season and returned Zane to the position of 1st team assistant coach. Zane, along with goalkeeping coach Neil Young and strength & conditioning coach Andrew Packer were sacked as part of a club cleanout of players and staff. On 7 September 2016, Zane became the caretaker coach of the Newcastle Jets after the termination of Scott Miller. Zane is regarded as well liked by the playing group and has a "Calming presence".

Career statistics

Scores and results list Australia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Zane goal.

Club
Northern Spirit FC (1995–2000)
Club
Lillestrøm SK (2001–2002)
Club
R.S.C. Anderlecht (2002–2005)
Club
Molde FK (2000–2000)
Club
Newcastle Breakers (1995–1998)
Club
Australia men's national under-20 soccer team (1996–1997)
Club
Australia national under-23 soccer team (1998–2000)
Club
Australia men's national soccer team (2000–2001)
National team
Australia

Trophies & Awards

Award
Kniksen Award for striker of the year

Clubs

Played together with

Archive

Passport
Identifiers & aliases
Description

Australian soccer player

Position

forward

Extract from Wikipedia

Clayton Zane is an Australian association football coach and former player, who played as a striker.

▸ Source: Wikipedia
All links
Official Website

Discussion

Opinions of fans — not verified facts.

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