Matthew Osman

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Matthew Osman
Personal information
Full name Matthew James Osman
Date of birth (1983-07-29) 29 July 1983 (age 40)
Place of birth Sydney, Australia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Parramatta Eagles
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2002–2003 Northern Spirit 12 (0)
2003 Manly United 4 (0)
2003–2004 Northern Spirit 15 (1)
2004–2005 Penrith United 15 (2)
2005–2009 Central Coast Mariners 58 (3)
2009–2011 Gold Coast United 15 (0)
2011 Parramatta Eagles
2012– Lions FC
International career
2002 Australia U20 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Matthew James Osman (born 29 July 1983) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Contents

Club career

On 12 October 2007, Osman was injured during training and as a result he sat out the remainder of the 2007–08 A-League season. [1] He was forced to have an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, returning to training in May 2008. [2] In July 2008 he re-signed with the Mariners for the 2008–09 season. [3]

Osman appeared in a Season 5 episode of the U.S. TV series The Office [4] . As described by reddit user kiasam111 [5] , new boss Charles (Idris Elba) walks out of his office to find Andy (Ed Helms) looking at what appears to be a screen-saver with a series of photos of football. A photo appears of two players, taken from an A-League (soccer) game between Central Coast Mariners and Perth Glory, played at Central Coast Stadium in Gosford, Australia, on 31 December 2008 [6] . The players in the photo (taken by Corey Davis of Getty Images) [7] are Marc Anthony (Perth) and Osman (Central Coast).

On 3 December 2008, Osman was signed by Gold Coast United for their inaugural A-league season. [8] He signed for Parramatta Eagles in summer of 2011. [9]

International career

Osman was named in the Australia under-20 team squad for the 2002 OFC U-20 Championship in Fiji. [10]

Honours

Central Coast Mariners

See also

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References

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  8. Six more names confirmed for United Archived 2 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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  10. Cockerill, Michael (7 November 2002). "NSL players win most squad spots". Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 21 April 2017.