Andy Bernal
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Andrew Bernal | ||
Date of birth | 16 May 1966 | ||
Place of birth | Canberra, Australia | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
1983–1984 | AIS | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1984–1985 | Xerez | ||
1985–1988 | Sporting Gijón | ||
1986–1987 | → Albacete Balompié (loan) | ||
1988 | Nottingham Forest | 0 | (0) |
1988 | Ipswich Town | 9 | (0) |
1989–1994 | Sydney Olympic | 113 | (6) |
1994–2000 | Reading | 187 | (2) |
Total | 309 | (8) | |
International career | |||
1989–1996 | Australia | 21 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Andrew Bernal (born Andrés Bernal; 16 May 1966 in Canberra, Australia) is a former professional football defender, and later football agent and personal assistant for David Beckham.[1]
Playing career
Club career
Bernal had played almost 100 games of Spanish club football whilst on loan to Albacete Balompié and Xerez in the Spanish lower divisions after graduating from the AIS before playing most of his club football at Reading in England, where he was part of the team that narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League in the 1994–95 season.[citation needed]
International career
Bernal has also played for the Australian national team on 21 occasions between 1989 and 1996.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Cockerill, Michael (23 July 2003). "Australian gets job as Beckham's amigo". The Age. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
External links
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- Living people
- Sportspeople from Canberra
- Australian people of Spanish descent
- Association football defenders
- Australian soccer players
- Australian expatriate soccer players
- Australia international soccer players
- La Liga players
- National Soccer League (Australia) players
- Albacete Balompié players
- Ipswich Town F.C. players
- Reading F.C. players
- Sporting de Gijón players
- Sydney Olympic FC players
- Xerez CD footballers
- Australian Institute of Sport soccer players
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