Damien Brown (born 12 January 1975) is an Australian retired professional

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. Born in

Gosford Gosford is the city and administrative centre of the Central Coast Council local government area in the heart of the Central Coast region, about north of Sydney and about south of Newcastle. The city centre is situated at the northern extre ...

, Brown played youth football with The Entrance and Central Coast, before making his senior debut for The Entrance in 1992. He later spent several seasons in the

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before joining hometown side

Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League Men, under licence from the Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The Ma ...

for the first three seasons of the

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Early life

Brown was born in

, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. He attended St Edward's College, East Gosford until 1990. From 1991 to 1992, he attended St Peter's Catholic College, Tuggerah.

Playing career

Early years

Brown first played youth football on the Central Coast for The Entrance, before being selected for Central Coast in 1986. He remained with the club until 1997, with the exception of seasons spent at The Entrance (whilst completing his Higher School Certificate) and

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in the

in 1995–96. He spent the next several years playing for various clubs in the

and

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sides.

Central Coast Mariners

In November 2004, Brown joined newly-formed hometown club

to play in the inaugural

season. He scored what was his only A-League goal in a 4–1

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win over his former club,

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on 31 December 2005. In April 2007, Brown signed a further one-year deal with the Mariners for the 2007–08 season. In early June 2008, Brown announced his retirement from professional football; and that he would be staying with the Mariners in a youth development role. Brown returned to state football with Lake Macquarie City in the

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State League in 2011, along with fellow former Mariners Andre Gumprecht and

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. The move saw him play against the Mariners in a friendly in September 2011. In 2012, the "Damien Brown Medal" was created by the Central Coast Men of Football, to be awarded to the best Mariners player each season as voted for by the group's members.

Honours

Club

Blacktown City Blacktown City Council is a local government area in Western Sydney, situated on the Cumberland Plain, approximately west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1906 as the Blackt ...

: *

Premiership: 2000 *

Championship: 2000

: *

Premiership: 2007–08 *

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2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

The Entrance: *Central Coast Football Premiership: 2010 *Central Coast Football Championship: 2010

Individual

* Central Coast Football Hall of Fame: 2013

References

External links

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Oz Football profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Damien 1975 births Living people People from Gosford Australian soccer players A-League Men players National Soccer League (Australia) players Blacktown City FC players Central Coast Mariners FC players Parramatta Power players Lake Macquarie City FC players Central Coast Mariners FC non-playing staff Association football midfielders Newcastle Jets FC players Newcastle Breakers FC players People educated at St Peter's Catholic College, Tuggerah Sportsmen from New South Wales Soccer players from New South Wales