Jamie Maclaren

Jamie Maclaren

Maclaren playing for Brisbane Roar in a friendly match versus Liverpool FC, July 2015
Personal information
Full name Jamie Maclaren
Date of birth (1993-07-29) 29 July 1993[1]
Place of birth Melbourne, Australia[1]
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Playing position Centre forward
Club information
Current team
 Brisbane Roar
Number 9
Youth career
1998–2003 Sunbury United
2003–2009 Green Gully
2009–2013 Blackburn Rovers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2015 Perth Glory 38 (11)
2014 Perth Glory Youth 5 (11)
2015– Brisbane Roar 33 (24)
National team‡
2011 Scotland U19 2 (0)
2012–2013 Australia U20 17 (9)
2014–2016 Australia U23 15 (9)
2016– Australia 2 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 December 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2016

Jamie Maclaren (born 29 July 1993) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a centre forward for A-League club Brisbane Roar.

Maclaren initially represented Scotland at youth level, but has since appeared for Australia at both youth and senior international level.

Club career

Blackburn Rovers

Maclaren training with Brisbane Roar in 2015

Jamie Maclaren grew up in the north-western suburbs of Melbourne. He first joined the junior side of local team Sunbury United at the early age of four or five, then switched to the youth ranks of nearby Victorian Premier League (now National Premier Leagues Victoria) side Green Gully in 2003, where although he continued to play against older players, his team was very successful, at one point winning around 50 games in a row. In July 2009, aged 15, he was invited to trial for Blackburn Rovers' under-16 squad. In his first trial match he scored two goals against Derby County's under-16 squad, followed by a hat-trick against Manchester United, which resulted in a contract offer from Rovers.[3]

Maclaren benefited from the mentorship of fellow Australians Vince Grella and Brett Emerton at Blackburn, where he soon progressed to be a regular under-21 squad player and training with the senior team.[4] However, after four years in England having not broken into the first team, he was released by Rovers at the end of the 2012–13 season.[5]

Perth Glory

Seeking first-team game time, Maclaren elected to return to Australia and signed a three-year contract with A-League club Perth Glory at the beginning of the 2013–14 season.[6] Maclaren made his Perth Glory debut, where he played 90 minutes, in a 3-1 loss against Adelaide United.[7] Maclaren then scored his first goal for Perth Glory weeks later, on 27 October 2013, in a 1-0 win over Melbourne City[8] and scored his second Perth Glory goal on 23 November 2013[9]

The 2014–15 season was his breakout year, scoring 10 goals in 23 appearances across all competitions, and earning the April nomination for the league's young player of the year award.[10] He also made a number of appearances in the National Premier Leagues side scoring 11 goals in just five games.[11][12] Maclaren scored his first senior club hat-trick, scoring all three of Glory's goals in a 3–1 win against Melbourne City on 19 April 2015.[13]

At the end of the 2014–15 season, in the fallout from the Perth Glory salary cap scandal, Glory agreed to release all contracted players who wished to leave the club, with the sole exception of Maclaren. In response, he lodged a formal breach-of-contract notice against Perth Glory to the players' Union, Professional Footballers Australia.[14][15] Maclaren was subsequently released by Glory on 29 June 2015.[16]

Brisbane Roar

During the A-League off-season, on 5 July 2015, Brisbane Roar signed Maclaren to a two-year deal.[17]

Maclaren made his debut with the Roar against the Western Sydney Wanderers on 8 October 2015. In the same game, he scored a brace for the Roar, with goals in the 9th and 34th minutes of the match.[18] Later that season Maclaren reached his 50th senior A-League appearance, scoring a goal and assisting another against his former club, Perth Glory. He scored his second senior club hat-trick in a win against Melbourne Victory on 12 March 2016.[19]

Maclaren finished the A-League regular season with 18 goals, second in the Golden Boot race to Melbourne City's Uruguayan striker Bruno Fornaroli, however his season tally was enough to become the all-time A-League record for an Australian player. Maclaren scored two more goals in the finals series to make his final club goal count 20 from 25 games. At the end of the 2015–16 season, he was awarded as the Young Player of the Year by the FFA.[20]

International career

His International career first started when he was called up for Scotland under-19 because of dual citizenship, his father Donald having been born in Scotland. He received two caps playing against Denmark and Norway. Jamie Maclaren was also a part of the Australian under-20 squad, and scored a goal against the hosts Turkey in the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[21]

Maclaren joined the Australian under-23 team, the Olyroos, for the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship qualification Group F games held in Taiwan in March 2015, which doubled as Olympic qualification. He played in two of the Olyroos' three games, scoring a hat-trick against Hong Kong[22] and another two goals against Myanmar,[23] achieving the second highest tally for the qualification stage out of the entire AFC.[24] Maclaren was named in the Australian squad for the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship,[25] where he played every minute of Australia's campaign in three games against the UAE, Vietnam and Jordan, scoring against Vietnam.[26][27][28]

In February 2016, Maclaren announced that he pledged to play for Socceroos, rather than play for Scotland.[29] In May 2016, Maclaren was called up to the Socceroos for the first time for a friendly match away to England,[30] in which he started.[31] During the match, Maclaren's performance was by Australian newspaper Herald Sun.[32]

Honours

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 "Players & Staff: Jamie Maclaren". Football Federation Australia. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "JAMIE MACLAREN". Brisbane Roar FC. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Young Victorian Signs for Blackburn Rovers Goal Weekly, June 16, 2010
  4. ↑ Getting to Know....Jamie Maclaren! Vital Football, 1 October 2012
  5. ↑ "Blackburn Rovers confirm released list". Lancashire Telegraph. 4 June 2013.
  6. ↑ Glory sign young gun Maclaren Shayne Hope, The West Australian, 2 July 2013
  7. ↑ "Adelaide United cops two red cards in win over Perth Glory; Roar nicks it in injury time against Phoenix". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 13 October 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "Perth Glory edges Melbourne Heart thanks to Jamie Maclaren goal, Wellington Phoenix and Newcastle Jets scoreless". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 27 October 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  9. ↑ "Central Coast Mariners clinch 2-1 victory over Perth Glory with 94th minute winner by Mitch Duke". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 23 November 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  10. ↑ NAB Young Footballer of the Year nominee for April Football Federation Australia, 30 April 2015
  11. ↑ "GLORY END THE NPL-WA SEASON IN STYLE". Perth Glory FC. 25 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "5-STAR GLORY SALUTE FLOREAT". Perth Glory FC. 26 April 2014.
  13. ↑ Perth Glory beats Melbourne City thanks to MacLaren hat-trick Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 19 April 2015
  14. ↑ Jamie Maclaren in contract impasse with Perth Glory David Davutovic, Daily Telegraph, 30 May 2015
  15. ↑ Maclaren in legal bid to quit Glory Dale Miller, The West Australian, 16 May 2015
  16. ↑ "Perth Glory releases Jamie Maclaren". Perth Glory. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  17. ↑ Monteverde, Marco (5 July 2015). "A-League: Brisbane Roar sign former Perth Glory striker Jamie Maclaren on a two-year deal". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  18. ↑ "Roar shock Wanderers in season opener". A League Official Website. 8 October 2015.
  19. ↑ Jamie Maclaren triple sends Brisbane Roar top with 5-0 win over Melbourne Victory Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 12 March 2016
  20. ↑ Maclaren named NAB Young Footballer of the Year Brisbane Roar, 26 April 2016
  21. ↑ "Country calls for duo". Blackburn Rovers F.C. 19 September 2012. Archived from the original on 21 July 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  22. ↑ Australia v Hong Kong AFC Official Match Report
  23. ↑ Australia v Myanmar AFC Official Match Report
  24. ↑ "Top Goal Scorers (by Stage) – 2016 AFC U-23 Championship Qualifiers". AFC.com.
  25. ↑ Olyroos squad: Aurelio Vidmar confirms squad for AFC Under 23s Championship Tom Smithies, Fox Sports, 23 December 2015
  26. ↑ UAE v Australia Match Report Asian Football Confederation, 14 January 2016
  27. ↑ Vietnam v Australia Match Report Asian Football Confederation, 17 January 2016
  28. ↑ Jordan v Australia Match Report Asian Football Confederation, 20 January 2016
  29. ↑ "Jamie Maclaren's Aussie caps". The Sun. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  30. ↑ Fresh faces named for Caltex Socceroos' England clash Socceroos.com, Football Federation Australia, 11 May 2016
  31. ↑ "England 2 - 1 Australia". BBC Sport. 27 May 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  32. ↑ "England 2 Australia 1: Jamie Maclaren finds EPL defenders big obstacles in Socceroos debut". The Herald Sun. 28 May 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
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