Ken Boden (born 5 July 1950) is a former
footballer
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, who played at both professional and international levels as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
. Born in England, he represented Australia.
Career
Club career
Boden spent his early career with
Hull City,
Scunthorpe United
Scunthorpe United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. The side currently competes in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. The tea ...
,
Sheffield United,
Matlock Town and
Bridlington Trinity.
He then spent the 1976–77 season with
Doncaster Rovers, making one appearance in
the Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...
. Boden later moved to Australia, where he played for
Newcastle KB United
Newcastle KB United are a defunct Australian association football club. They participated in the National Soccer League from 1978 until early in the 1984 season.
History
The first Newcastle based team to play in a national league, Newcastle K ...
,
Sydney City, and
Sydney Croatia
Sydney United 58 Football Club is a semi-professional soccer club and current NSW NPL Champions based in Edensor Park, Sydney, New South Wales Australia. The club was formed as Sydney Croatia in 1958, by Croatian Australians in the area, but it ...
.
During the 1978 season, he was the
National Soccer League
The National Soccer League (NSL) was the top-level soccer league in Australia, run by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association. The NSL, the A-League's predecessor, spanned 28 seasons from its inception in 1977 until its d ...
top scorer and Player of the Year.
International career
Boden made 26 appearances for
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
at all levels.
Boden made 13 official A-matches, appearing in one FIFA World Cup qualifying match.
References
External links
Ken Bodenat Aussie Footballers
Ken Boden: a league of his own
1950 births
Living people
English footballers
Australian soccer players
Australia international soccer players
National Soccer League (Australia) players
English emigrants to Australia
Hull City A.F.C. players
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Sheffield United F.C. players
Matlock Town F.C. players
Bridlington Trinity F.C. players
Doncaster Rovers F.C. players
Newcastle KB United players
Hakoah Sydney City East FC players
Sydney United 58 FC players
English Football League players
Association football midfielders
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