Fausto De Amicis (born 26 June 1968) is an Australian former

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player. He was a member of the Australian national team that scored a record 31 goals against

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in a FIFA World Cup qualifier. Overall, De Amicis was involved in four

National Soccer League The National Soccer League (NSL) was the top-level soccer league in Australia, run by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association. The NSL, the A-League's predecessor, spanned 28 seasons from its inception in 1977 until its ...

title winning sides, twice with the

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, and twice with

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. In the latter's 1998 Grand Final win over Carlton, De Amicis was awarded the

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for best afield.

Playing career

De Amicis made his debut for Australia against Chile in February 1998, at the age of 29.

International goals

Coaching career

After the departure of Moreland Zebras senior head coach Danny Gnjidic at the end of the 2016 NPL2 West season, the club appointed former player De Amicis as the new manager.

Honours

Melbourne Knights *

Champion:

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

South Melbourne *

Champion:

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

Australia *

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: runner-up

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

AFC–OFC Challenge Cup The AFC–OFC Challenge Cup was a football tournament, set up as the successor of the discontinued Afro-Asian Cup of Nations. It was a biannual event, with Oceania represented by the winners of the OFC Nations Cup and Asia Asia ( , ...

: runner-up

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

External links

OzFootball profile

References

1968 births Living people Australian men's soccer players Australia men's international soccer players National Soccer League (Australia) players Brunswick Zebras Football Club players Melbourne Knights FC players South Melbourne FC players Australian people of Italian descent Sportspeople of Italian descent Men's association football defenders 1998 OFC Nations Cup players 2000 OFC Nations Cup players 2002 OFC Nations Cup players Soccer players from Melbourne 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-footy-defender-stub