High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gary Cole is an Australian football (soccer) player, who played for the Australia national football team 40 times and scored 20 goals between 1975 and 1984. He is currently Football Operations Manager for A- League club Melbourne Victory FC. Transferred from Ringwood Wilhelmina to Fitzroy Alexander (later called Heidelberg United) in 1976 for a transfer fee of 6,000 after 3 years at Ringwood. Cole became one of the early stars of the National Soccer League as a striker, scoring 88 goals in 6 seasons at Heidelberg. In 1984 Cole moved to rival NSL club Preston Makedonia after injuring his ankle badly in 1983, and went on to score 21 goals for the club before retiring in 1986.