John Crawley (soccer)

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John Crawley
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Crawley coaching Central Coast Mariners in 2012
Personal information
Full name John Michael Crawley [1]
Date of birth (1972-03-05) 5 March 1972 (age 52)
Place of birth Parramatta, Australia
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Australia (Goalkeeping coach)
Youth career
1990 Blacktown City
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1990–1995 Colo-Colo 1 (0)
1992 → Lota Schwager (loan)
1993 → Magallanes (loan)
1994 → Juventud Puente Alto (loan) – (–)
1996 Blacktown City
1998–1999 Macarthur Rams 48 (0)
1999–2000 Sydney United 4 (0)
2000–2005 Blacktown City
2005–2007 Central Coast Mariners 5 (0)
2014 Central Coast Mariners 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Michael Crawley (born 5 March 1972) is an Australian former football player who played as a goalkeeper. Since retiring as a player, he has worked as a goalkeeping coach.

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Playing career

South America

Crawley first travelled to South America on a NSW Schoolboys tour in 1990. This eventually led to his signing with Chilean club Colo-Colo. Crawley spent the next five years at Colo-Colo, including some loan spells to clubs including Lota Schwager, [2] Magallanes and Juventud Puente Alto. [3] Crawley acted as a liaison officer when the Australian national team stayed in Chile in preparation for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification play-off against Argentina in November 1993. [4] He made his first team debut for Colo-Colo in a draw against Atacama in the last game of the 1994 Primera División of Chile. [5] [6] Crawley remained second choice at Colo-Colo, behind Chilean international goalkeeper Marcelo Ramírez, and in 1995 was forced to decide between adopting Chilean citizenship or retaining his Australian passport. [7]

Return to New South Wales

Crawley returned to Australia in 1995. He spent the next decade moving between several clubs, largely in the New South Wales state league, with the exception of a brief spell in the National Soccer League with Sydney United. [8]

Crawley was signed by Central Coast Mariners in December 2004 ahead of the inaugural A-League season. [9] By the start of the season, Crawley had shown good form and established himself as the Mariners first-choice 'keeper. [8] However, a hip injury in the early rounds of the season saw Crawley miss most of the season, his place in the side taken by young goalkeeper Danny Vukovic, who Crawley had coached for several years. [10]

Coaching career

Before his retirement as a player, Crawley had taken up a role as goalkeeping coach at the Mariners, and continued in that role for over a decade, also taking on other coaching duties including video analysis. [11] His role in the development of Mariners goalkeepers Danny Vukovic and Mathew Ryan from young ages to becoming established professionals was particularly notable. [12]

Crawley took up a position with the Australia under-23s in 2015, in the lead-up to the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship. [13]

In 2015, Crawley joined Sydney FC as their goalkeeping coach, following former Mariners head coach Graham Arnold. [14]

Over his years of coaching, he takes heavy influence off the goalkeeping styles of South America, many of which he picked up himself during his time at Colo-Colo. He states that he is often preached for his coaching in one-on-one situations and most notably the side volley, which helped develop his former Mariners goalkeepers. [15]

Honours

Club

Central Coast Mariners

See also

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References

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  2. ↑ "UN CANGURO MINERO: JOHN CRAWLEY (1992)". AGUANTELOTA (in Spanish). 10 January 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  3. ↑ Reyes, Luis (24 June 2017). "La insólita historia del australiano que jugó en Chile". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  4. ↑ Cockerill, Michael (5 November 1993). "Aussies warm to Chilean escape". Sydney Morning Herald . p. 36.
  5. ↑ Cockerill, Michael (20 December 1994). "Debut at last for patient Crawley". Sydney Morning Herald . p. 56.
  6. ↑ "Colo Colo 1994 - Campeonato Nacional". www.solofutbol.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  7. ↑ Cockerill, Michael (24 January 1995). "Pie 'n' sauce or taco and Chile". The Canberra Times . Archived from the original on 30 March 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  8. 1 2 Cockerill, Michael (19 August 2005). "Keeping the faith in number one". Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  9. ↑ Lynch, Michael (15 December 2004). "Player drain as Victory delays". The Age . Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  10. ↑ "Crawley backs Mariners keeper in shootout". The Age . 5 March 2006. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  11. ↑ "News: Crawley departs – Nash steps up". Central Coast Mariners FC. 7 July 2015. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  12. ↑ "Nash takes over from Crawley as Mariners goalkeeper coach". The World Game. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  13. ↑ Adno, Carly (20 March 2015). "John Crawley says Mat Ryan sets standard for next generation of Aussie goalkeepers". Fox Sports . Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  14. ↑ Adno, Carly (8 July 2015). "Former Central Coast Mariners assistant, John Crawley, jumps ship to Sydney FC". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  15. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/Socceroos/videos/10155508547122028/ [ user-generated source ]
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