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Aziz Behich
Personal information
Full name Aziz Behich
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Left Back, Left Winger
Team information
Current team
 Melbourne Heart
Number 16
Youth career
2005–2007 Green Gully
2008–2010 Melbourne Victory
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008-2009 Green Gully 33 (4)
2009–2010 Melbourne Victory 5 (0)
2010 Hume City 6 (1)
2010– Melbourne Heart 27 (0)
International career‡
2011– Australia U-23 4 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 June 2011

Aziz Behich (born 16 December 1990 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Turkish Australian footballer who currently plays for Melbourne Heart in the A-League and the Australia Under-23 national team. He was the first player to play for both Melbourne Victory and Melbourne Heart having being transferred in 2010.

Club career

Green Gully

Behich played in the junior divisions of Green Gully SC.[1][2] He participated in the Junior Super League's of Melbourne's North-West. He had played for the club's Reserve team in 2007.[3] In February 2007 Behich had returned to Australia after having been training at the David Beckham Academy.

2008 VPL season

In 2008 Behich was signed to the club's first-team, surprisingly because the coach; Ian Dobson, had preferred experienced players with-in his squad, where he made his debut on 22 February 2008 in a 2-0 loss against Richmond. He had been substituted onto the field in the 57th minute. He had been promoted to the club's first-team with team mate Diogo Ferreira, who also went onto sign for Melbourne during Behich's second youth season. In 2008, Behich scored 2 goals in 11 appearances while playing for Green Gully in Australia's Second Division.[4] He had scored his two goals in a 6-1 win against Fawkner Blues on May 17 2008, he had been substituted onto the field in the 76th minute and scored in both the 84th and 86th minutes.[5]

2009 VPL season

During the National Youth League's off-season, Behich would return to play for Green Gully in the 2009 season.[6][7] Aziz had appeared 22 times for Green Gully, once in the final's play-off's, and had scored 2 goals over all. His second goal came in a play-off match against Altona Magic where which Aziz was substituted onto the field in the 80th minute when Green Gully were trailing 3-2, Aziz had scored an equaliser in the 94th minute to take the game to extra-time, however, Green Gully eventually lost 4-3 on penalties[8][9]

Melbourne Victory

Youth team

Prior to the start of the 2008-2009 A-league's National Youth League, Behich was selected for Melbourne Victory's 7 man squad.[10][11][12] On 3 January 2009, Aziz scored in a 3-0 win against Queensland Roar.[13] One week later, on 10 January 2009, he scored again in a 2-0 win against Perth Glory.[14] Melbourne went onto finish in 6th position out of 7th. The following season he was the only youth player to re-sign with Melbourne's youth team and was handed the captain's arm band.[15][16][17][18]

2009-10 A-League season

Behich made his debut for Melbourne's first-team on 16 January 2010, in the 2009–10 A-League season, where he was substituted onto to the field in the 83rd minute for Carlos Hernández in a 6-2 win against Perth Glory.[19] His second appearance was on 23 January 2010, where he was substituted onto the field in the 91st minute, again for Carlos Hernández, in a 2-0 win against Adelaide United.[20] Despite Matthew Theodore being the only player to sign from Melbourne's youth-team to its first-team in 2009, as of 2010 Behich was the only youth player to gain a first-team appearance and consecutive first-team appearances. It was then announced, in January 2010, that Behich was named in Melbourne's 2010 AFC Champions League squad.[21] He was substituted on during the second half of the 2009-2010 A-League Grand Final when Melbourne lost on penalties to Sydney, and is notable for the narrowest miss of the match, which could have been the winner. Behich then signed to Hume City in the Victorian Premier League during the A-League off-season.

Hume City

2010 VPL season

Behich debuted for Hume City in a 2-2 draw against Northcote City on May 16 2010. Scoring on debut, he netted Hume city's second goal on 81 minutes. He appeared 5 more times for the side, departing from the club in June, as they finished in second spot of the Victorian Premier League table.[22][23]

Melbourne Heart

2010-11 A-League season

By July 2010 he trialled with the Melbourne Heart squad where he took part in a round of warm up matches that the club played, including a 2-0 defeat against Everton. Behich, shortly after trialling with Melbourne Heart, signed a 7-week deal with the club as an injury replacement player for Kristian Sarkies until October 2010. After Dean Heffernan received a red card, Behich slotted into the starting lineup to cover his position, and started most games afterwards. On 25 October 2010, he signed a full time contract with the Melbourne Heart.[24] Behich became the first player to play for both Melbourne clubs, Victory and Heart. At Heart, he was developed into more of a defensive player, a left back or left winger, as opposed to the striker position he played at Victory. He was the first player to be sent off in a Melbourne derby, given his second yellow in the very first encounter between the clubs, which Heart won 2-1. In January Behich was awarded the A-League Young Footballer of the month.[25]

International career

Behich was called up to the Australia Under-23 side by coach Aurelio Vidmar for a friendly match against Japan's Under-23 side at the Tohoku Denryoku Bigswan Stadium, Niigata on Wednesday 1 June 2011.[26] Behich was selected to play against Yemen's under-23 side for the Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers Preliminary Round 2. On 14 June 2011, in preparation for the 2012 AFC Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament, Behich featured in a 6-0 win against Singapore under-23 where he scored Australia's sixth goal in the 90th minute. On 19 June 2011 Behich played in Australia's first-leg 3-0 win against Yemen.[27][28][29][30] Four days later he played in the second leg which resulted in a 4-0 win to Australia on 23 June.[31]

Honours

With Australia Green Gully

References

  1. ^ http://www.greengully.com/images/juniors05g-large.jpg
  2. ^ http://www.greengully.com/images/u15sl2005.jpg
  3. ^ http://www.greengully.com/seniors/u212007-large.jpg
  4. ^ http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/States/VIC/2008PLR.html
  5. ^ http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/States/VIC/2008PLR.html
  6. ^ http://www.footballfedvic.com.au/common/pages/public/rv/match.aspx?matchID=209748&entityID=7250
  7. ^ http://www.heidelbergunitedsc.com.au/rnd809.htm
  8. ^ http://www.greengully.com/ssl/article_89.shtml
  9. ^ http://www.greengully.com/seniors/seniors08.jpg
  10. ^ http://www.mvfcblog.com/category/aziz-behich/
  11. ^ http://www.melbournevictory.com.au/default.aspx?s=yleague_team
  12. ^ http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/81553,victory-sign-up-seven-youths.aspx
  13. ^ http://www.a-league.com.au/default.aspx?s=hal_newsdisplay&id=25851&pageid=2776
  14. ^ http://www.a-league.com.au/default.aspx?s=hal_newsdisplay&id=26009&pageid=2776.
  15. ^ http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/J4zwrD7Foc2/National+Youth+League+Rd+6+United+v+Victory/h8iprp8Eit7/Aziz+Behich
  16. ^ http://www.melbournevictory.net/forum/showthread.php?t=56047
  17. ^ http://www.football-lineups.com/footballer/44364/
  18. ^ http://www.melbournevictory.com.au/default.aspx?s=yleague_profile&pid=1726&tid=268
  19. ^ http://www.a-league.com.au/Scoreboard_HAL/0000420155/scoreboard.html
  20. ^ http://www.a-league.com.au/Scoreboard_HAL/0000420160/scoreboard.html
  21. ^ http://www.goal.com/en/news/808/australia/2010/01/21/1754381/melbourne-victory-name-asian-champions-league-squad
  22. ^ http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/States/VIC/2010PLR.html
  23. ^ http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/States/VIC/2010PLT.html
  24. ^ http://sportal.com.au/football-news-display/behich-staying-with-heart-100799
  25. ^ http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/soccer/behich-wins-january-award-as-a-league-young-footballer/story-e6frfg8x-1225998801979
  26. ^ http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/2009Australia/default.aspx?s=aus_news_news_display&id=39831
  27. ^ http://www.the-afc.com/en/component/joomleague/?view=report&compID=407&matchId=3894
  28. ^ http://back-of-the-net.com/2010-2011/Misc/Misc_NT23.htm
  29. ^ http://www.greengully.com/ssl/article_237.shtml
  30. ^ http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/2009InsideFFA/default.aspx?s=insideffa_newsfeatures_newsitem_new&id=40051
  31. ^ http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/2009InsideFFA/default.aspx?s=insideffa_newsfeatures_newsitem_new&id=40122
  32. ^ http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/States/VIC/2008PLT.html

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