Kasey Wehrman (born 16 August 1977) is an Australian

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. Wehrman has

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ancestry.

Club career

Born in

Cloncurry Cloncurry is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Cloncurry had a population of 2,719 people. Cloncurry is the administrative centre of the Shire of Cloncurry. Cloncurry is known a ...

, having impressed as a youth player with the Queensland Academy of Sport, Wehrman signed with National Soccer League club

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, and was an integral member of their premiership team in 1996–97, where he was crowned the Under 21 Player of the Year. After four seasons with the Strikers, he transferred to Perth Glory in 1999, where he helped the club win the Minor Premiership in his first season. With two seasons in Perth, Wehrman sought a move overseas, and after successful trials in Norway, he signed with Moss. He settled into first team football almost immediately, becoming a mainstay in the Moss midfield. After the club was relegated in 2002, Wehrman signed with

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where he featured for the next four seasons, before transferring to

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in 2007. On 31 August he signed a loan deal with Lyn for the 2009 season. On 19 October 2009 reports suggested that Kasey was to move to Preston North End as a free agent. On 8 April 2010, it was announced that Wehrman had signed a two-year deal with the

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, returning to Australia after eight years abroad. After speaking out publicly against the Jet's coach Gary van Egmond, Wehrman's was taken out of the squad, and never took to the field for the Jets again.

International career

Wehrman was capped 11 times for the Australian under-20 team and has played a number of times for the full Australian national team including unofficial and official international games making his debut in 1998 against Fiji in

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...

. He was a surprise inclusion for a friendly match against

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in November 2006 after having been overlooked for the previous 5 years.

National team statistics

Coaching career

On 25 October 2012 it was announced he had accepted the head coach position at the newly formed Western Pride football club who will participate in the Australian Premier League Queensland Conference. He resigned in July 2014 to return home to Norway after two seasons at Ipswich. On 15 December 2021, Wehrman was named head coach of Norwegian side

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Honours

Club

: * NSL Championship: 1996-1997

Country

; Australia *

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Individual

* NSL Under-21 Player of the Year: 1996-1997 * PFA A-League Team of the Season:

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References

External links

Newcastle Jets profile
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Fredrikstad FK profile

at Aussie Footballers * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wehrman, Kasey 1977 births Living people People from Cloncurry, Queensland Australian soccer players Indigenous Australian soccer players Australian expatriate soccer players Australia men's international soccer players Australia men's under-20 international soccer players Olympic soccer players for Australia Brisbane Strikers FC players Fredrikstad FK players Lillestrøm SK players Moss FK players Perth Glory FC players Eliteserien players A-League Men players Newcastle Jets FC players 1998 OFC Nations Cup players Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Expatriate footballers in Norway Australian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Indigenous Australian Olympians Men's association football midfielders Fredrikstad FK non-playing staff Australian soccer managers Australian expatriate soccer managers Soccer players from Queensland