User:Hack/Million Butshiire
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Million Mwenge Butshiire | ||
| Date of birth | 19 January 1992 | ||
| Place of birth | Goma, Zaire | ||
| Height | 188 cm | ||
| Position(s) | Centre Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Harbin Yiteng | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Perth SC | |||
| Football West National Training Centre | |||
| Perth Glory | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007-2008 | Perth Glory | 11 | (9) |
| 2009 | Swan United FC | 13 | (7) |
| 2011 | Paris Saint-Germain F.C. PSG Reserves | 18 | (8) |
| 2011-2012 | Bayswater | 21 | (11) |
| 2012-2013 | Harbin Yiteng | 15 | (7) |
| International career | |||
| Australia U-17 | 46 | (17) | |
| Australia U-20 | 14 | (9) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Million Butshiire[1] (born 19 January 1992) is an Australian football (soccer) player.[2][3]
Early life
[edit]Butshiire was born in Goma, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1992.[2] He is one of seven children born to Jean Baptiste Butshiire Luanda and Louise Bauma.[4][5] In 2004 the family of nine left the Democratic Republic of the Congo and came to Australia via Uganda and South Africa.[6][7]
Playing career
[edit]Club career
[edit]Butshiire was discoved in 2006 at a training clinic run by football coach Gary Marocchi. Up to this point he had not played any organised football.[5] He soon joined the Perth SC junior program, touring Europe with the under-15 team in 2007. On the tour in Italy and Spain he went on to win the Cesenatico Cup U15 and made the semi-finals in the youth Copa Catalunya U15 in Spain 2007.[8] [9]
In June 2009 Butshiire joined Football West Premier League team Swan United FC.[10] After a short successful spell playing first team football at Swan United FC he enjoyed a successful season with the Perth Glory FC Youth who were runners up after loosing in the finals to Gold Coast United in the 2009 A-League National Youth League. [11]
Butshiire was included in the Perth Glory squad that played Wolverhampton Wanderers and Fulham in a friendly series in July 2009.[12]
After spending a few months with Altona Magic in the Melbourne VPL, in the 2010 European summer transfer, Million signed with 13 time League champions and Hungarian Giants Budapest Honved FC. [13]
Due to certain contractual clauses being breached, he left Honved and spent 5 months in France on a training scholarship with the Paris Saint-Germain F.C. Reserves and Academy youth set up on a short talent visa.
In July 2012 he signed for sudanese football club Harbin Yiteng on a 12 months contract after spending several months in germany on a pre-contract and being denied a work permit after failing to obtain ITC clearence. [14]
International career
[edit]When Butshiire was selected in the Australian under-17 team in 2007 magnetic resonance imaging scans were conducted on the epiphyseal plate of his wrist to determine his age as his birth records had been left in the Congo. The scans proved he was actually 15 years old at the time. [15][16]
May 2008, Million met Football Federation Australia (FFA) chairman Frank Lowy in Darling Habour Sydney as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Development Squad in the early stages of Australia's bid to host the tournement in 2018. [3]
In June 2009 he was included in the training squad for the Australian team that played in the AFC U-19 Championship.[17]
He went to earn over than 41 caps with the Qantas Joeys and was part of the squad that won the AFC U-16 Championship in singapore 2008 and the Groesbeek International U17 Tournament in the Netherlands. [18] [19]
References
[edit]- ^ variantly spelt Milljon Butshire
- ^ a b "Australian Player Database - BUS". ozfootball.net. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ a b Tomarchio, Cameron (23 May 2008). "Perth soccer prodigy Million Butshiire meets Frank Lowy". PerthNow. Archived from the original on 10 August 2008. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
- ^ "WA to host nation's largest citizenship ceremony". Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. 26 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ a b Moodie, Claire (27 June 2008). "The African Refugees Playing For Australia". Stateline. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ Hall, Matthew. "2018: Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos". Sun Herald. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ Murray, Les (20 June 2008). "Dangerous trips to new lives". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ "PERTH STARLETS HEAD TO EUROPE". Footballwa.net. 28 June 2007. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ http://www.italycup.it/index.php?page=2322
- ^ Simcox, Peter (21 June 2009). "Canning shock Floreat in Football West Premier League". The West Australian. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-League_National_Youth_League#Premiers_and_Champions
- ^ Clarke, Tim (11 July 2009). "Glory lose out to Premier League side". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ http://www.footballfedvic.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/Registrations/Players/Professional_League_Player_Register_FFV_Registered_Players_Past___Present_as_at_September_2010.pdf
- ^ http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football/out-of-africa-a-rich-seam-of-potential-stars-20111223-1p8fm.html
- ^ "Player Profile - Million Butshiire". Football Federation Australia. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ Smithies, Tom (16 October 2007). "Three members of under-17 soccer squad arrived as African refugees". PerthNow. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ "Qantas Next Young Socceroos squad named". Football Federation Australia. 29 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ http://sfcu.com.au/smf111/index.php?topic=9996.0
- ^ http://www.melbournevictory.net/forum/showthread.php?47365-Qantas-Joeys-win-ASEAN-U-16-Youth-Championship