Pierce Waring

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Pierce Waring
Personal information
Full name Pierce Waring
Date of birth (1998-11-18) 18 November 1998 (age 25)
Place of birth Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) [1]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Oakleigh Cannons
Youth career
FTS Academy
Nunawading City
2015–2018 Melbourne Victory
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2015–2018 Melbourne Victory NPL 49 (13)
2016–2018 Melbourne Victory 1 (0)
2018–2020 Cerezo Osaka U23 38 (3)
2018–2020 Cerezo Osaka 0 (0)
2021 Bentleigh Greens 12 (7)
2021 Sichuan Jiuniu 7 (2)
2022 Bentleigh Greens 16 (8)
2023 Green Gully 22 (13)
2024– Oakleigh Cannons 0 (0)
International career
2015 Australia U17 3 (1)
2019 Australia U23 2 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 July 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 March 2019

Pierce Waring (born 18 November 1998) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a forward for National Premier Leagues Victoria club Oakleigh Cannons. [2]

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Personal life

Born in Melbourne to an Australian father and a Japanese mother, Waring moved to Shanghai when he was just two years old, as his parents were working in China, before moving to Japan for another four years. Waring subsequently moved back to Melbourne at the age of eight. [3]

Club career

Melbourne Victory Reserves

Waring made his youth debut in 2015 after gaining promotion from the under 20 team under John Aloisi. Waring won the 2016/2017 National Youth League Golden Boot.

Melbourne Victory

Pierce Waring signed his first professional A-League contract with the Melbourne Victory squad in September 2017. On 24 February 2018, he made his first appearance coming on in the 85th minute as a substitute for Besart Berisha against Adelaide United.

Waring made his debut first-team start on 18 April 2018 in an AFC Champions League match against Shanghai SIPG. In the same match, Waring scored his debut first-team goal in the 40th minute of the match, in an eventual 2–1 win. [4]

Cerezo Osaka

On 4 July 2018, Waring joined J1 League club Cerezo Osaka. [5]

International career

Waring represented Australia at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, scoring his first international goal against Germany. [6]

Honours

Club

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References

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  2. Pierce Waring Player stats
  3. Tito, Clement. "PIERCE WARING: THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING". FourFourTwo Australia. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  4. Davutovic, David. "Asian Champions League: Melbourne Victory impress in last game as A-League finals loom large". Heraldsun. News Corp. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  5. Dorman, Matt (4 July 2018). "Ex-Victory youngster makes big J.League move". Football Federation Australia.
  6. "Joeys defeated by clinical Germany at World Cup". 19 October 2015.