Joshua Kennedy
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joshua Blake Kennedy | ||
| Date of birth | 20 August 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Wodonga, Victoria, Australia | ||
| Height | 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Twin City Wanderers | |||
| SS&A Boomers | |||
| 1999 | AIS | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2000 | Carlton | 4 | (0) |
| 2000–2002 | VfL Wolfsburg | 8 | (2) |
| 2002–2003 | Stuttgarter Kickers | 23 | (1) |
| 2003–2004 | 1. FC Köln | 4 | (0) |
| 2004–2006 | Dynamo Dresden | 60 | (16) |
| 2006–2007 | 1. FC Nürnberg | 12 | (1) |
| 2008–2009 | Karlsruher SC | 33 | (7) |
| 2009–2014 | Nagoya Grampus | 128 | (63) |
| 2015 | Melbourne City | 12 | (2) |
| Total | 284 | (92) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1999 | Australia U-17 | 9 | (0) |
| 2001 | Australia U-20 | 14 | (7) |
| 2006–2014 | Australia | 36 | (17) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:26, 26 June 2015 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14:26, 26 June 2015 (UTC) |
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Joshua Blake "Josh" Kennedy (born 20 August 1982 in Wodonga, Victoria) is an Australian former professional soccer player, who last played as a striker for the Australia national soccer team and Melbourne City.
Kennedy is known by Australian fans as "Jesus" due to his apparent resemblance to traditional depictions of Jesus earlier in his playing career.
Kennedy began playing junior soccer in Albury/Wodonga, near his hometown of Yackandandah in Victoria, Australia. There, he played with the Twin City Wanderers and later SS&A Boomers. His talents won a scholarship place in the Australian Institute of Sport program, leading to a professional contract at new National Soccer League club Carlton in 1999, alongside fellow AIS graduates Vince Grella and Mark Bresciano.
After a season, he made a move to Europe transferring to Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg. His debut as a substitute coming on five minutes from time in the 4–4 draw against fellow Northern German side Hamburger SV on 13 September 2000, at age 17 made him the youngest player ever to appear for VfL. It was his only appearance for the first team that year, and the following season brought little change for Kennedy as he managed just seven appearances for the Bundesliga side, starting only once. However, he scored two goals in the 2001–02 season, with his first ever Bundesliga goal coming on 8 September 2001 against Energie Cottbus.
At the start of the following season Kennedy was transferred to Regionalliga Süd side Stuttgarter Kickers, where he was a regular feature playing 23 games for the Swabian side. After just one season Kennedy left for Cologne where he joined (at the time) Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln. However, he mostly played for their reserve team in the Regionalliga Nord, where he was the club's second-top scorer of the season with nine goals in twenty-three games.
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