Stars in World Cup 2014

Tim Cahill: Austalia's all-time top scorer

Australia's striker Tim Cahill (R) celebrates with Australia's defender David Carney (C) and Australia's striker Brett Holman after scoring the opening goal during the Group D first round 2010 World Cup football match Australia vs. Serbia on June 23, 2010 at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit. Photo: AFP
Australia's striker Tim Cahill (R) celebrates with Australia's defender David Carney (C) and Australia's striker Brett Holman after scoring the opening goal during the Group D first round 2010 World Cup football match Australia vs. Serbia on June 23, 2010 at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit. Photo: AFP


Surname: Cahill

Firstname: Tim

Country: Australia

Date of birth: 1979-12-06

Birthplace: Sydney

Height: 180 cm

Weight: 69.0 kg

Playing Career

Position: Midfielder

Clubs

Sydney United (1997), Millwall (Eng/1997-2004), Everton (Eng/2004-2012), Red Bulls (USA/2012)

International appearances: 69

International goals: 32

International debut

30/03/2004, Australia-South Africa (1-0)

Last international appearance

07/06/2014, Croatia-Australia (1-0)

Playing Honours

International

World Cup: second round (2006), first round (2010), 6 matches, 3 goals

Asian Nations Cup: finalist (2011), quarter-finalist (2007), 9 matches, 3 goals

1 Oceanian Nations Cup (2004), 3 matches, 6 goals

Other Honours

Australian Player of the year (2009)

Everton's Australian midfielder Tim Cahill (2nd R) vies with Chelsea's Brazilian midfielder Ramires (R) and Portuguese defender Jose Bosingwa (L) during the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Everton at Stamford Bridge in London, on October 15, 2011. Photo: AFP


Cahill packs a punch

Australia's top ever international scorer Tim Cahill is a box-to-box midfielder with an eye for the goal and an eye-catching trademark goal celebration of boxing the corner flag. He scored Australia's first World Cup goal as he hauled them from behind against Japan in their 2006 opener, a 3-1 victory that propelled the Socceroos toward the second round. Cahill would score another World Cup goal in 2010 in a 2-1 win over Serbia, but he had already been sent off early in the 4-0 mauling by Germany, thereby missing the tie against Ghana as Australia failed to make the second-round cut. From Sydney with European and Samoan roots he is now 34 years old and has traded his career club Everton for New York Red Bulls, where last season he scored a goal after just seven seconds in a Major League game.