Andy Bernal

Andy Bernal
Personal information
Full name Andrew Bernal
Date of birth (1966-05-16) 16 May 1966
Place of birth Canberra, Australia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Defender
Youth career
1983–1984 AIS
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1985 Xerez
1985–1988 Sporting Gijón
1986–1987 → Albacete Balompié (loan)
1988 Nottingham Forest 0 (0)
1988 Ipswich Town 9 (0)
1989–1994 Sydney Olympic 113 (6)
1994–2000 Reading 187 (2)
National team
1989–1996 Australia 21 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Andrew Bernal (born Andrés Bernal, 16 May 1966 in Canberra, Australia) is a former professional football defender, and later football agent and personal assistant for David Beckham.[1]

Playing career

Club career

Bernal had played almost 100 games of Spanish club football whilst on loan to Albacete Balompié and Xerez in the Spanish lower divisions after graduating from the AIS before playing most of his club football at Reading in England, where he was part of the team that narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League in the 1994–95 season.

International career

Bernal has also played for the Australian national team on 21 occasions between 1989 and 1996.

Post-football career

After retiring from football Bernal worked for a sports agency closely related to David Beckham. He later became a personal assistant to Beckham.

References

  1. ↑ Cockerill, Michael (23 July 2003). "Australian gets job as Beckham's amigo". The Age. Retrieved 4 January 2010.


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