Shane Duffy
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Shane Patrick Michael Anthony Duffy | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Centre back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Everton | ||
| Number | 34 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Foyle Harps | |||
| 2008–2009 | Everton | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009– | Everton | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2008 | Northern Ireland U16 | 5 | (1) |
| 2008 | Northern Ireland U17 | 5 | (1) |
| 2008– | Northern Ireland U19 | 4 | (0) |
| 2009– | Northern Ireland U21 | 3 | (1) |
| 2009 | Northern Ireland B | 1 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:57, 23 December 2009 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:57, 23 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
Shane Patrick Michael Anthony Duffy (Irish: Seán Pádraig Micheál Antaine Ó Dubhthaigh) is an Irish footballer currently playing for English club Everton.
Career
Club
As a youth, Duffy played Gaelic football for Doire Colmcille CLG and association football for Foyle Harps Y.F.C., both based in Derry. He joined Everton in November 2008 as a first-year scholar and worked his way through the U-18[1] and reserve teams. Manager David Moyes named him and several young players in the first team for the pre-season friendlies and Duffy scored his first Everton goal against Rochdale in a 4-0 victory. He made his professional debut versus AEK Athens in the Europa League in December 2009, coming on for the injured Sylvain Distin.[2] In Everton's next European fixture, Duffy made his home debut at Goodison Park, completing the full 90 minutes against BATE Borisov.[3]
International
Despite eventually opting to play his international football with the Republic of Ireland, Duffy was part of the Northern Ireland youth set-up from the U16 level upward. An U17 regular, he was in the squad for their unsuccessful 2009 European Championship qualifying campaign and scored the only goal of the match, a penalty, in the opening game against Liechtenstein.[4] He was called up to the senior team in June 2009 for a friendly against Italy but was an unused substitute. Northern Ireland's manager, Nigel Worthington, commented that a large part of his decision to include Duffy in his squad was to dispel any interest from the Republic of Ireland, for whom he was still eligible to play by virtue of his birth in Derry and through his Donegal-born father. In August 2009, he made his Northern Ireland U21 debut, playing the whole match and scoring in the 2–1 away loss to Portugal. Still eligible to play for the U-19's, Duffy has played several games in the 2010 Under-19 European Championship qualifying, scoring twice in a 4–0 victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina, Northern Ireland 's first win of the qualifying campaign.[5]
In February 2010, Nigel Worthington announced that plans to name Duffy in any of his future squads had been scrapped due to the player taking the decision to represent the Republic of Ireland at senior level instead.[6]
References
- ^ "TofeeWeb Everton Under-18s". ToffeeWeb.com. 02 May 2009. Retrieved 04 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=and|date=(help) - ^ "Everton vs AEK Athens". uefa.com. 2 December 2009. Retrieved 02 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Everton vs BATE". bbc.co.uk. 17 December 2009. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
- ^ "Belgium join flawless Austra". uefa.com. 23 September 2008.
- ^ "Coleman and Duffy in international action". evertonfc.com. 13 October 2009.
- ^ "Coleraine's Rory Patterson is in Northern Ireland squad". BBC Sport. 22 February 2010.
External links
- Everton profile
- Shane Duffy at Soccerbase
- Profile on IFA website