| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Golgol Tedros Mebrahtu | ||
| Date of birth | (1990-08-28)28 August 1990 (age 35) | ||
| Place of birth | Khartoum, Sudan | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Brisbane Northern Districts | |||
| Brisbane Olympic | |||
| 2009–2010 | Gold Coast United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009 | Brisbane Strikers | 8 | (0) |
| 2009–2012 | Gold Coast United | 26 | (0) |
| 2012–2014 | Melbourne Heart | 26 | (4) |
| 2014–2016 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 9 | (0) |
| 2016–2018 | Mladá Boleslav | 35 | (14) |
| 2018–2019 | Sparta Prague | 7 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | Puskás Akadémia | 17 | (1) |
| 2021 | Brisbane Roar | 12 | (1) |
| 2022 | PSM Makassar | 7 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | Avondale | 1 | (0) |
| 2023 | Bentleigh Greens | 7 | (0) |
| Total | 151 | (20) | |
| International career | |||
| 2011 | Australia U23 | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Golgol Mebrahtu (born 28 August 1990) is a former professionalsoccer player who played as aforward.[1] Born as an Eritrean refugee in Sudan, he has represented Australia at youth level.
Born inSudan, Mebrahtu is ofEritrean descent. Mebrahtu moved toBrisbane,Queensland,Australia at age nine.Mebrahtu currently resides inMelbourne, Australia. He is aCoptic Orthodox Christian.
In June 2009, Mebrahtu signed a 3-year contract withGold Coast United, after a successful trial at the club in April.[2]
He was discovered by Gold Coast coachMiron Bleiberg, while he was waiting for a helicopter to take him from Brisbane to theGold Coast. Bleiberg spotted Mebrahtu training by himself and recognised him from a previous scouting mission.[2]
For the2012–13 season Mebrahtu played forMelbourne Heart. He wore the number 14football jersey. In his first game for Melbourne Heart, he scored the winning goal in the 88th minute againstPerth Glory. On 1 January 2013, he scored the first goal of that year.
On 2 February 2014, he was released from Melbourne Heart, 3 days before the end of the transfer window.[3]
On 3 February 2014, Mebrahtu signed with theWestern Sydney Wanderers along withDaniel Mullen. However, since there were no spaces remaining in the club's A-League squad, he was only eligible to participate in the Western Sydney Wanderers'2014 AFC Champions League campaign during the2013–14 season.[4] On 5 March 2014, following a long-term injury toTahj Minniecon, Mebrahtu was added to Western Sydney Wanderers'A-League squad.[5] Mebrahtu made his debut for the Wanderers againstSydney FC as a substitute in the 71st minute, but was replaced 6 minutes later when injured in a tackle by Sydney FC midfielderRichard Garcia.[6]
On 5 May 2016, Mebrahtu was released by the Western Sydney Wanderers.[7]
In mid-2016, Mebrahtu joinedCzech First League clubMladá Boleslav in theCzech Republic.[8] He scored 6 goals in 14 matches in the 2017–18 season, but fell out of the matchday squad after the arrival of new Mladá Boleslav head coachJozef Weber and Mebrahtu's contract was mutually terminated in August 2018.[9]
On 20 August 2018, it was announced he had signed a one-year contract with Sparta Prague and left the club at the end of the season.
On 22 January 2021, it was announced that Mebrahtu had signed a deal withBrisbane Roar. He scored his first goal for the club on March 21, a late equaliser in a 1–1 draw againstWellington Phoenix.
On 11 January 2022, Indonesian top flight sidePSM Makassar announced it had signed Mebrahtu.[10]
Mebrahtu made his international debut forAustralia'sunder-23 squad in 2011, coming on in the second half of in a loss toJapan U23.[11]
Because of his birthplace and ancestry, Mebrahtu is eligible to represent multiple teams internationally:Australia, the country he is now a naturalised citizen of and gained the status of professional footballer in,Sudan, the country of his birth, and,Eritrea, the country of his ancestry.
Mebrahtu was approached by Daniel Solomon, an agent from theEritrean National Football Federation, to play forEritrea, the land of his ancestry, in August 2018.[12][13]
He was called up to the Eritrean team for aWorld Cup qualifying playoff againstNamibia in September 2019,[14] but did not feature in the matchday squads.[15][16]