Jonti Richter

:"See Jonathan Richter (Danish footballer) for the Danish footballer."Football player infobox
playername = Jonti Richter


fullname = Jonathan Richter
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1983|4|12
cityofbirth = flagicon|South Africa Johannesburg
countryofbirth = South Africa
height = height|ft=5|in=7
currentclub = Unattached
clubnumber =
position = Midfielder
years = 2002–2004 2005–2006 2006–2007 2007 2007–2008
clubs = Northern Spirit Queensland Roar New Zealand Knights Manly United
Tamworth
caps(goals) = 44 (7) 17 (1) 18 (0) 0? (?) 0? (?)
nationalyears = 2003
nationalteam = flagicon|Australia Australia U20
nationalcaps(goals) =
pcupdate = July 19 2008 (UTC)
ntupdate = July 19 2008 (UTC)

Jonathan "Jonti" Richter (born April 12, 1983 in Johannesburg, South Africa), is an Australian professional footballer, most recently playing for Conference North side Tamworth, where he played as a midfielder.

Playing career

flagicon|Australia Northern Spirit

Jonti started his career with Australian club Northern Spirit of the old National Soccer League in 2002.

Richter spent two seasons with Northern Spirit, in which he made 44 appearances, finding the net on seven occasions.

Jonti became a free agent when the club enduring major financial problems, and the club folded at the end of the 2003/2004 National Soccer League season.

flagicon|Australia Queensland Roar

Richter was picked up by newly formed A-League club Queensland Roar in time for the start of the new 2005 in A-League.

Jonti spent the whole season with Queensland Roar, making 17 appearances and scoring one goal.

flagicon|Australia New Zealand Knights

Jonti's next venture was with A-League club New Zealand Knights, who he joined for the 2006 season.

Richter made 18 appearances, but failed to score, and found himself without a club when New Zealand Knights became defunct.

He and several other players were locked in a legal battle with the now defunct New Zealand Knights owners, Soccer New Zealand, and the Football Federation of Australia over lost wages. The latter two took over the running of the club for the remainder of the 2006-2007 A-league season. With the advice of the PFA (Professional Footballers Union) and FifaPro there was no action taken against any party due to court and legal costs as well as lack of enough evidence to gain a positive result for the players.

flagicon|Australia Manly United

Jonti failed to find a new club in the A-League and joined New South Wales Premier League side Manly United.

Richter failed to settle with Manly United and at the end of the season, he returned to his hometown of Brisbane in October 2007.

flagicon|England Tamworth

Jonti joined Conference North side Tamworth on October 30, 2007, along with former Tamworth old boy Graeme Law, who joined on a months loan from Conference National side Farsley Celtic.

Richter knew Tamworth manager Gary Mills who tried to sign the young winger while he was on trial with Mills' former club Notts County, and hopes with the guidance of his new boss, Jonti can make a name for himself in the English game. [cite news |first=Dave |last=Clayton |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Old and new faces at The Lamb |url=http://www.thelambs.co.uk/news/newsDetail.asp?secID=1&newsID=698 |work= |publisher="TheLambs.co.uk" |date=2007-10-30 |accessdate=2007-11-01 ]

Richter played on and off throughout the season for Tamworth, he left at the end of the 2007/08 season, following the end of his contract.

International career

flagicon|Australia Australia U20

Richter has represented Australia U20's in the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.

References