Robert Ironside (born 20 August 1967) is a former
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player who represented
New Zealand
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internationally in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Club career
His club career began with
North Shore United
North Shore United Association Football Club is an amateur football club based in the North Shore, Auckland. They compete in the Northern League, where they last won the competition in 2019.
Their home ground is Allen Hill Stadium, which is l ...
before he moved to Australia to join
Sydney Olympic in the Australian
National Soccer League. After seven seasons with Sydney, Ironside moved for two seasons to
Newcastle Breakers
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He had a year playing for South China and came back to Australia played one season with Sydney Olympic before finishing off in Newcastle
International career
Ironside made his
All White debut in a 1-1 draw over
Australia national football team Australia national soccer team may refer to:
* Australia men's national soccer team
** Australia men's national under-23 soccer team
** Australia men's national under-20 soccer team
** Australia men's national under-17 soccer team
** Australia men' ...
on 16 August 1990 and went on to make a total of 56 official A-international appearances in which he scored eleven goals, his final cap earned in a 0-3 loss to
Australia on 6 June 1993.
Altogether, including unofficial matches, Ironside played 72 matches for the ''All Whites''.
References
External links
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Player Statistics at ozfootball.net
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1967 births
Living people
Association football midfielders
New Zealand association footballers
New Zealand international footballers
North Shore United AFC players
Newcastle Breakers FC players
Sydney Olympic FC players
National Soccer League (Australia) players