Jacob Burns (footballer)
Burns training with Australia in 2009
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jacob Geoffrey Burns | ||
| Date of birth | 21 April 1978 | ||
| Place of birth | Sydney, Australia | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defensive Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sydney Olympic | |||
| St George Saints | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1996–1999 | Sydney United | 60 | (5) |
| 1999–2000 | Parramatta Power | 25 | (3) |
| 2000–2003 | Leeds United | 6 | (0) |
| 2003–2006 | Barnsley | 89 | (6) |
| 2006–2008 | Wisła Kraków | 22 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | Unirea Urziceni | 19 | (0) |
| 2009–2014 | Perth Glory | 116 | (3) |
| Total | 337 | (17) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1999–2000 | Australia U-23 | 10 | (0) |
| 2000–2010 | Australia | 11 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 March 2014. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 January 2010 |
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Jacob Geoffrey Burns (born 21 April 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player who last played for A-League club Perth Glory.
Jacob Burns began his career with the local team Sydney United. He then moved to local rivals Parramatta Power, whom he left in 2000 to join the Premier League club Leeds United. They signed him as squad cover, and he only played eleven games during his three-year stay.
His contract was allowed to run out, and on 17 October 2003 he joined Barnsley on a free transfer. He also spent three seasons at Barnsley however these were a lot more respectable, as he played 91 times gaining 8 goals and one assist, as well as the club captaincy.
However, he craved another chance at international football, and so in 2006 he followed the chance of Champions League football to Polish League champions Wisla Krakow.
Burns liked the manager at Wisla, and so when Wisla manager Dan Petrescu moved to Romanian top-flight team Unirea Urziceni at the start of the 2008–09 season, the Australian followed.
Yet, despite this, his time in Romania was of mixed form and inconsistent appearances, and at the end of that one season, he decided the time was right for a return to his home land. On 4 May 2009, it was announced that Burns had signed a three-year contract with A-League club Perth Glory. He has also been awarded the club captaincy.
In the 2011–12 season, Burns led the Glory to the A-League Grand Final, and despite losing, he was awarded the Joe Marston Medal awarded to the best player of the match. Burns was in turns praised and criticised for the sportsmanship he showed after the match, following the controversial penalty decision that won Brisbane Roar the championship, and the FFA 'administrative error' which saw the Joe Marston medal incorrectly awarded to Thomas Broich during the on-field presentations.
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