Graham Arnold

Graham Arnold
Personal information
Full name Graham James Arnold
Date of birth (1963-08-03) 3 August 1963
Place of birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1981 Canterbury-Marrickville
1982–1990 Sydney United 178 (68)
1990–1992 Roda JC 61 (22)
1992–1994 Liège 60 (23)
1994–1995 Charleroi 16 (1)
1995–1997 NAC Breda 63 (35)
1997–1998 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 28 (7)
1999–2001 Northern Spirit 47 (5)
Total 453 (161)
National team
1985–1997 Australia 54 (19)
Teams managed
1989–1990 Sydney United
1998–2001 Northern Spirit
2006–2007 Australia
2007–2008 Australia U23
2008–2010 Australia (assistant)
2010–2013 Central Coast Mariners
2014 Vegalta Sendai
2014–2018 Sydney FC
2018– Australia
2018– Australia U23
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Graham James Arnold (born 3 August 1963) is an Australian association football manager and former player. Arnold was appointed to work as an assistant coach of the Australian national football team in 2000. After head coach Frank Farina was sacked in 2005, Arnold worked with Guus Hiddink for the 2006 FIFA World Cup campaign, in which they made the second round of the finals. After Hiddink left, he became acting coach of the Socceroos.[1] Arnold went on take the manager role at A-League club the Central Coast Mariners between 2010 and 2013, where he guided the club to two premierships and a championship. He is a member of the Football Federation Australia Football Hall of Fame. He has now also won with Sydney FC in 2016–17 A-League.

Arnold holds a number of A-League records: he has managed the second most games of any manager in the A-League (205), he has achieved the second most wins in the competition's history (111), he has the best career winning percentage of any A-League manager (54.2%), he has the best career unbeaten percentage of any A-League manager (81.5%), and he is one of just 3 managers to have won multiple A-League championships.[2] On 8 March 2018, it was announced that he will replace Bert van Marwijk as Australian coach after the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[3]

Personal life

Arnold's daughter, Elissa, is the partner of Australia national football team defender Trent Sainsbury.[4] Arnold Place in the Sydney suburb of Glenwood is named for him.[5]

Playing career

Club

Arnold was a striker who started his career at Gwawley Bay in 1969. He played for them and Sutherland representative teams concurrently until 1979 when he moved to Canterbury-Marrickville in the New South Wales Premier League. He then moved to Sydney Croatia in Australia's now defunct National Soccer League, where he was both the league's top goal scorer and player of the year in 1986. This was followed by a move overseas, where he made a name for himself in the Netherlands, playing for Roda JC and NAC Breda. He also spent time in Belgium with R.F.C. de Liège and R. Charleroi S.C.. He went on to play for Sanfrecce Hiroshima in Japan towards the end of his career, before finally returning home to play for the Northern Spirit FC.

International

Graham Arnold has represented Australia's senior national team 54 times, scoring 19 goals (85 caps, 33 goals including unofficial matches and "B" internationals). He was given his full debut by Frank Arok in a World Cup Qualifier against Taiwan at Adelaide's Hindmarsh Stadium on 23 October 1985. He scored on his debut as the "Socceroos" went on to record a 7–0 victory. His international playing career came to a sad end on 29 November 1997 in a World Cup Qualifier against Iran at the MCG when the score ended 2–2 and Australia was eliminated on the away goals rule after leading 2–0.

Managerial career

Arnold had a cameo role as a coach very early on in his career. He was coach for 2 games while he was a player at Sydney Croatia during the 1989/90 season. However, his proper coaching career started in 1998, when he was appointed player/manager of the Northern Spirit FC. He was the coach for 2 seasons, making the playoffs in their debut season.

Australia

Arnold (right) in 2007

He was then appointed to the position of Australian assistant coach in 2000, becoming acting coach in July 2006, then appointed head coach in December 2006.

On 6 September 2006 Australia was defeated 2–0 in an Asian Cup qualifying game against lowly-ranked Kuwait. The FFA confirmed Arnold would remain Head Coach through to the end of 2007 Asian Cup campaign.

Australia started their Asian Cup campaign poorly, drawing with Oman in its opening Group stage game in Bangkok. Media pressure focused on Arnold and on 13 July 2007 Australia were beaten 3–1 by Iraq in the 2007 Asian Cup. Following the match, Arnold told the assembled media (in reference to some of the team's higher profile members), "There's some players who seem like they don't want to be here. I'm extremely disappointed."

Since the tournament, Arnold has continued his role as Manager of the Australian U-23 side that is in the final qualification stages for the 2008 Olympics. He was also linked with the manager's position at Bolton Wanderers and Norwich City in England but lost out to Gary Megson and Glenn Roeder respectively.

With the appointment of Dutchman Pim Verbeek as the Australian manager, Arnold along with Henk Duut served as his assistant to the national side during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Central Coast Mariners

On 9 February 2010, it was announced that Arnold will take on the position of head coach for the Central Coast Mariners until the end of the 2012/2013 season.[6][7] At the conclusion of the 2011–12 A-League season he rejected a lucrative contract from Sydney FC and decided to stay on with the Mariners signing a one-year extension to his original contract with the club.[8]

Vegalta Sendai

In the month of November 2013 Graham was a target for a few clubs in Asia, especially Vegalta Sendai in Japan's J1 League. Although interest again raised from the Australian Football Federation to make Graham the national team coach, he always wanted to stay in club football over the national team setup and within weeks agreed terms with Sendai to be the first Australian coach, since the late Eddie Thomson to coach at the highest level in Japanese football.[9] Graham recruited his assistant from the Central Coast Mariners Andrew Clark to join him in Japan. On 9 April 2014, it was announced by Vegalta Sendai that Arnold had been sacked after an winless 8-game streak endured by Sendai in the league and cup competitions.[10]

Sydney FC

2014–2015 season

Arnold was appointed as the new head coach of Sydney FC on 8 May 2014.[11] In his first season with the Sky Blues, they were runners-up in the 2014–15 A-League season, finishing second behind Melbourne Victory, and losing the 2015 A-League Grand Final to them.

2015–2016 season

After their fairly respectable 2014-15 season, they saw an unsuccessful 2015-16 A-League season, finish in 7th place and missing out on the Finals Series. He was, however, able to lead the team to a top place finish in Group H for their 2016 AFC Champions League campaign. They were eventually knocked out by Chinese team Shandong Luneng 3-3 on aggregate in the Round of 16.

2016–2017 season

To prevent another nightmare campaign, Arnold started his revamp of the squad by releasing 13 players in the pre-season. To solve the teams goalscoring issues, he bought in Brazilian striker Bobô as their new marquee to play alongside former teammate Filip Hološko under the new 2 marquee rule. In addition to this, he also brought in 5 Australian players, including Bernie Ibini on loan, Socceroo Alex Wilkinson (two whom have worked with Arnold at the Central Coast) and Danny Vukovic from rival club Melbourne Victory. The season started off with a bang, with Sydney FC defeating their rivals Western Sydney Wanderers 4-0 in round 1. He led the team to a runners-up finish after being defeated 1-0 in the FFA Cup Final by Melbourne City.

Into the January transfer window, fan favourite Matthew Jurman joined K-League club Suwon Samsung Bluewings, while keeper Vedran Janjetović swapped with Andrew Redmayne to cross city rivals, Western Sydney Wanderers after a dispute about not playing after being displaced by Vukovic. To replace Jurman, Dutch defender Jordy Buijs signed. The team was able to go on undefeated for 19 games in the league before eventually being defeated 1-0 in a controversial game against the Wanderers. This defeat only made the team stronger, as they went the remainder of the season undefeated, gaining 19 points out of a possible 21 for the remaining 7 games. His team was eventually crowned premiers after Melbourne Victory was unable to defeat Brisbane Roar, while Sydney had 4 games remaining. Arnold's 3rd season with Sydney proved fruitful, in addition to winning the premiership, the squad had broken multiple records, including the most points in a single season, breaking Brisbane Roar's 2010-11 season of 65 points in 3 fewer games with 66 points, as well as being the only top-flight football team in Australia to stay outright 1st throughout the whole season. Arnold was also named Coach of the Year at the Dolan Warren Gala Night. He ended the season with a 1-1 in the Grand Final, winning 4-2 on penalties against Melbourne Victory, becoming the first manager to win the championship with more than one club.

Australia national team comeback

On 8 March 2018, it was announced that he will replace Bert van Marwijk as Australian coach after the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[3]

Club statistics

[12]

Club performance League
Season Club League AppsGoals
Australia League
1985Sydney CroatiaNational Soccer League2811
19862512
19872417
1988237
19892710
1989/90266
Netherlands League
1990/91RodaEredivisie288
1991/923314
Belgium League
1992/93LiègeFirst Division3216
1993/94287
1994/95CharleroiFirst Division161
Netherlands League
1994/95NAC BredaEredivisie1510
1995/963016
1996/97189
Japan League
1997Sanfrecce HiroshimaJ1 League186
1998101
Australia League
1998/99Northern SpiritNational Soccer League285
1999/0060
2000/01130
CountryAustralia 20068
Netherlands 12457
Belgium 7624
Japan 287
Total 428156

National team statistics

Australia national team
YearAppsGoals
198521
198664
198763
1988164
198942
199000
199120
199200
199361
199400
199521
199630
199773
Total5419

International goals

#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
14 August 1985St George StadiumSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade4-14-1Friendly Game
29 August 1985Hindmarsh StadiumSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade1-41-4Friendly Game
311 August 1985Olympic Park StadiumSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade4-04-0Friendly Game
425 September 1985St George Stadium China PR1-11-1Friendly Game
523 October 1985Hindmarsh Stadium Chinese Taipei6-07-01986 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
63 August 1986Olympic Park Stadium Czechoslovakia1-11-1Friendly Game
725 October 1986Mount Smart Stadium New Zealand0-11-1Trans-Tasman trophy
82 November 1986Parramatta Stadium New Zealand1-02-0Trans-Tasman trophy
923 November 1986Canton, China China PR0-20-2Ampol Cup Trophy
1011 June 1987Kyong Ju, South Korea Chile0-20-2Korea Cup
1115 June 1987Suwon, South Korea South Korea0-40-5Korea Cup
1221 June 1987Seoul Olympic Stadium South Korea1-11-1Korea Cup
1315 November 1987Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan0-10-3Friendly Game
1415 November 1987Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan0-20-3Friendly Game
153 February 1988Olympic Park StadiumSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia GNK Dinamo Zagreb1-11-1Friendly Game
1626 February 1988Bruce Stadium Taiwan1-03-01988 Olympic Games Qualifying
1726 February 1988Bruce Stadium Taiwan2-03-01988 Olympic Games Qualifying
1827 March 1988Eden Park Taiwan0-10-31988 Olympic Games Qualifying
193 December 1988Macquarie Field Fiji4-05-11990 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
2022 February 1989Parramatta StadiumSweden Malmö FF1-03-0Friendly Game
2112 March 1989Sydney Football Stadium New Zealand2-04-11990 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
2212 March 1989Sydney Football Stadium New Zealand3-04-11990 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
232 February 1990Olympic Park StadiumSoviet Union FC Torpedo Moscow2-03-0Friendly Game
242 February 1990Olympic Park StadiumSoviet Union FC Torpedo Moscow3-03-0Friendly Game
2510 June 1991Taegu, South Korea United States2-22-4Friendly Game
2612 June 1991Pohang, South Korea South Korea0-10-2Friendly Game
2726 February 1993Papendaal, NetherlandsNetherlands Vitesse Arnhem0-10-1Friendly Game
2816 July 1993Bersenberg, GermanyGermany MSV Duisburg0-10-1Friendly Game
2930 May 1993Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand0-10-11994 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
3018 June 1995Sydney Football Stadium Ghana2-02-1Friendly Game
3113 June 1997Parramatta Stadium Tahiti4-05-01998 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
3217 June 1997Parramatta Stadium Solomon Islands2-06-21998 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
336 July 1997Parramatta Stadium New Zealand2-02-01998 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)

Managerial statistics

As of 21 April 2018[13]
Team Nat From To Record
GWDLWin %
Australia Australia December 2006 November 2007 9 3 1 5 033.33
Central Coast Mariners Australia 10 February 2010 14 November 2013 112 54 29 29 048.21
Vegalta Sendai[14] Japan 1 February 2014 9 April 2014 6 0 2 4 000.00
Sydney FC Australia 8 May 2014 14 July 2018 142 81 34 27 057.04
Australia Australia 14 July 2018 Present 0 0 0 0 !—
Total 269 138 66 65 051.30

Honours

Player

Club

Central Coast Mariners
Sydney FC

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "Coaches proud of team's achievements". Football Federation Australia. 27 June 2006. Archived from the original on 29 August 2006.
  2. ↑ Weiner, David (8 March 2018). "Graham Arnold gets Socceroos job after World Cup, with Asian Cup redemption his first task". Fox Sports Australia. News Corp. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Arnold named Van Marwijk's eventual successor". FIFA.com. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Micallef, Philip. "EXCLUSIVE: Sainsbury confident of keeping Socceroos spot". The World Game. Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  5. ↑ O'Maley, Christine (20 January 2010). "Park is a goner". Blacktown Advocate. Cumberland Newspapers. p. 14. ...streets are named after well known football identities...
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 February 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  7. ↑ Graham Arnold deserves to be given a chance, The Roar, Retrieved on 19 February 2010.
  8. ↑ http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/239042,arnie-ill-be-back.aspx
  9. ↑ "Mariners appoint Moss as Arnold joins J-League - Goal.com". www.goal.com.
  10. ↑ "Was Graham Arnold doomed from the start at Vegalta Sendai? - Goal.com". www.goal.com.
  11. ↑ Lutz, Tom (8 May 2014). "Sydney FC appoint Graham Arnold as new coach". the Guardian.
  12. ↑ "Graham Arnold". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman.
  13. ↑ "Graham Arnold". ALeague Stats. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  14. ↑ J.League Data Site(in Japanese)
  15. ↑ "Sydney FC vs Adelaide United, FFA Cup, Cup Final, 21st Nov 2017". FFA Cup.
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