Steve Mautone

Steve Mautone
Personal information
Full name	Steven Mautone
Date of birth	10 August 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth	Myrtleford, Australia
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Melbourne Victory (Assistant Coach)
Youth career
	AIS
Senior career*
Years	Team
1989-1990	Blacktown City
1990-1991	Parramatta Eagles
1992-1994	Morwell Falcons
1994-1995	South Melbourne
1995-1996	Canberra Cosmos
1996-1997	West Ham United
1996	→ Crewe Alexandra (loan)
1997	→ Reading (loan)
1997-1999	Reading
1999	Wolverhampton Wanderers
1999	Crystal Palace
1999-2000	Gillingham
2000-2002	Slough Town
2008	Melbourne Victory
Total
International career
1990-1991	Australia U-23
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Steve Mautone (born 10 August 1970) is an Australian football (soccer) coach with Melbourne Victory in the A-League. Mautone was initially recruited by Melbourne Victory to assume responsibility for training their goalkeepers Michael Theoklitos and Eugene Galekovic. He has been responsible for training and developing former Melbourne Victory goalkeepers Michael Petkovic, Sebastian Mattei, Michael Theoklitos, Eugene Galekovic, Glen Moss and Mitch Langerak whilst they were respectively playing at the Victory.

In 2008–09 and 2009-10 season, Mautone was assistant coach with Melbourne Victory's National Youth League team, working alongside Mehmet Durakovic. Mautone has recently relinquished this position to concentrate on the Victory's senior goalkeepers and to develop his own goalkeeping academy, 1st Choice Keeper.

Club career

After completing a scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport, Steve's professional career began quietly in 1989, when as an 18-year-old he made eight appearances for Blacktown City in the National Soccer League as an understudy to Bill Londos. He made the switch to Parramatta Eagles the following season, serving another apprenticeship to Alex McPherson. Mautone returned to regional Victoria in 1992, taking up a contract with Morwell Falcons, firstly in the Victorian Premier League in 1992, and ultimately securing the first team spot in the senior squad for the club's inaugural season in the National Soccer League.

In two seasons with the Gippsland-based club, Mautone proved outstanding, not missing a single league game, and his performances led to a move to Victorian rivals South Melbourne. The following season Mautone signed for the newly formed Canberra Cosmos, where he played 20 of 24 league games before a move to England with London-based Premier League club West Ham United beckoned.

Following a loan spell with Crewe Alexandra, he made his League debut for the Hammers in September 1996, keeping a clean sheet against Nottingham Forest. He was then loaned out to Reading, where he became a fans favourite, eventually signing for the club in March 1997 in a deal worth £250,000. He made 34 appearances in all competitions for Reading before eventually being released from his contract.

Mautone spent the 1999/00 season making a handful of appearances at various clubs, including Wolverhampton Wanderers, Crystal Palace and Gillingham. He eventually moved to non-league Slough Town FC where he spent a couple of seasons and made over 50 appearances before eventually returning to Australia to pursue his coaching career.

Coaching career

Mautone served as goalkeeping coach of Melbourne Victory FC for 9 years, before departing on 22 May 2015 in order to spend more time with his young family.^[1]

References

^ "VICTORY COACHES DEPART FOR PERSONAL REASONS". The World Game. SBS. Retrieved 22 May 2015.

External links

[1] "VICTORY COACHES DEPART FOR PERSONAL REASONS". The World Game. SBS. Retrieved 22 May 2015.

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