David Mitchell (Australian footballer)

Football player infobox
playername = Dave Mitchell
fullname = David Stuart Mitchell


dateofbirth = birth date and age|1962|6|13
cityofbirth = Glasgow
countryofbirth = Scotland
height =
position = Manager (former Striker)
currentclub = flagicon|Australia Perth Glory
clubnumber =
youthyears =
youthclubs = flagicon|Australia Adelaide City
flagicon|Australia Sydney City
years = 1980-1983
1983-1985
1985-1987
1987-1989
1988-1990
1990
1990-1991
1991-1993
1993-1993
1993-1995
1995
1996
1996-1997
1997-1999
clubs = flagicon|Australia Adelaide City
flagicon|Scotland Rangers FC
flagicon|Germany Eintracht Frankfurt
flagicon|Netherlands Feyenoord Rotterdam
flagicon|England Chelsea FC
flagicon|Netherlands NEC Nijmegen
flagicon|England Newcastle United
flagicon|England Swindon Town
flagicon|Turkey Altay Izmir
flagicon|England Millwall FC
flagicon|Malaysia Selangor
flagicon|Hong Kong Seiko
flagicon|Australia Sydney Olympic
flagicon|Australia Sydney United
caps(goals) = 40 (15)
26 0(6)
35 0(5)
40 (12)
07 0(0)
06 0(0)
02 0(1)
68 (19)
03 0(0)
55 (15)
00 (14)
24 0(6)
nationalyears = 1981
1981-1993
nationalteam = flagicon|Australia Australia U-20
flagicon|Australia Australia
nationalcaps(goals) =
44 (13)
manageryears = 1995-1996
1996-1999
1999-2001
2005
2006-2007
2007-present
managerclubs = flagicon|Australia Sydney Olympic
flagicon|Australia Sydney United
flagicon|Australia Parramatta Power
flagicon|Malaysia Sarawak
flagicon|Australia Perth Glory "(Asst.)"
flagicon|Australia Perth Glory
pcupdate = 7 June 2007
ntupdate = 25 July 2007

David "Dave" Mitchell (born 13 June 1962 in Scotland) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player. He moved to Australia as a young child. He began his professional career with Adelaide City in 1981, and made his Australia debut against Taiwan that same year. He made 44 appearances for the national team, scoring 13 goals.

Playing career

In a journeyman career, Mitchell played for clubs in England, Scotland, The Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Malaysia and Hong Kong, before returning to Australia to coach Sydney Olympic, Sydney United and Parramatta Power in the National Soccer League. He was the assistant manager to Ron Smith at A-League club ALeague PG for the 2006/2007 season and the first half of the 2007/2008 season before before taking the top position after Smith's sacking. He has appeared as a guest on several occasions for the Australian cable television channel Fox sports 1 which cover the English Premier League. He notably scored the winner in the 1995 Malaysia Cup final; this was a golden goal, the first golden goal to be scored in a Malaysia Cup final.

Managerial career

David's coaching career in the NSL spanned six seasons and 154 matches, in which he recorded 68 wins, 31 draws and 55 losses. When he returned from playing in Europe he was a player/coach for clubs Sydney Olympic and Sydney United. Some of the coaching achievements that he had in Australia was a Grand Final appearance in 1998/99 with Sydney United and also being the inaugural coach of Parramatta Power in 1999/00. He coached Malaysia second tier club Sarawak and left due to unpaid wages. He returned to Australia to coach Sydney Schoolboy side St Aloysius' College, before leaving to join Perth Glory as assistant to Ron Smith. He also used to be a scout for Feyenoord, acknowledging them about Brett Emerton, Brett Holman and Stephen Laybutt.

He has also been recruited by Australian Technical director Rob Baan as an assistant coach for the Australia national under-23 football team squad, who were preparing for the Beijing Olympics.

It was speculated that after the sacking of Sydney FC manager Branko Culina Mitchell would be the replacement. [ [http://www.theworldgame.com.au/home/index.php?pid=st&cid=98121 Culina runs out of time] ]

David was appointed Interim Head Coach of Perth Glory after the sacking of Ron Smith in November 2007 and then was given a contract until March 2009.

Honours

Player

Personal Honours:
* FFA Hall of Champions Inductee - 2006
* NSL Papasavas Medal (U-21): 1981

Manager

Personal Honours:
* NSL Coach of the Year: 1998-1999

References

External links

* [http://www.perthglory.com.au/default.aspx?s=pgfc_coachingstaff&pid=532 Perth Glory profile]
* [http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/InsideFFA/default.aspx?s=insideffa_hof_champions_profile&id=1489 FFA - Hall of Fame profile]
* [http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/M/MI.html Oz Football profile]