Caleb Folan

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Personal information
Caleb Folan
Full name	Caleb Folan
Date of birth	October 26, 1982 (age 24)
Place of birth	Leeds, England
Height	6 ft 2 in
Nickname	Raging Bull
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Wigan Athletic
Number	20
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2001-2003 2001 2001 2003-2007 2007-	Leeds United → Rushden & Diamonds (loan) → Hull City (loan) Chesterfield Wigan Athletic	000 0(0) 006 0(0) 001 0(0) 102 (15) 007 0(2)^[1]
National team
2007-	Republic of Ireland	000 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Caleb Folan (born October 26, 1982) is a footballer, currently playing for Wigan Athletic.

He qualifies for the Republic of Ireland through his grandfather who was from Innis Mor and his grandmother from Galway.

1 Club Career
2 International Career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Club Career

He scored the winner against West Ham United in Chesterfield's League Cup victory.

After a series of impressive performances for League One side Chesterfield Folan was linked with a January transfer to Premiership side Wigan Athletic and on 26 January 2007 he moved to Wigan Athletic on a three and a half year deal with Wigan manager Paul Jewell stating: "He's strong, he's aggressive, he's got a finisher's instinct and I think he will add competition in an area where the squad needs bolstering."^[2]

On January 30, 2007 he played his first Premiership match for Wigan against Reading^[3] , and on February 21, scored his first goal for the club, an equaliser against Watford. On March 3rd he scored the winner away against Manchester City.

[edit] International Career

On March 15th he earned a call up for the Republic of Ireland squad, qualifying through his Irish born grandparents after receiving his Irish passport the day earlier. The decision to call up Folan was greeted with disappointment by many Irish supporters, not because of Folan's undoubted ability but due to the fact that the national team management was considered to continue to overlook Irish strikers in favour of foreigners with tenuous links to the country. Folan's call up was criticised as being another "strange call" from the Irish boss Steve Staunton, when established strikers such as David Connolly and Alan Lee were being ovelooked. Folan eventually was forced to pull out of the squad due to injury

[edit] References

^ Source: SoccerBase.com stats (English)
^ "Striker Folan secures Wigan move", BBC Sport, 2007-01-26. Retrieved on January 27, 2007.
^ Tactical Formation. Football-Lineups.com. Retrieved on February 7, 2007.

[edit] External links

Caleb Folan career stats at Soccerbase

Wigan Athletic F.C. - Current Squad
1 Filan \| 2 Granqvist \| 4 Jackson \| 5 Hall \| 6 de Zeeuw \| 7 Camara \| 8 Kilbane \| 9 Heskey \| 10 McCulloch \| 11 Johansson \| 12 Pollitt \| 13 Kirkland \| 14 Landzaat \| 15 Aghahowa \| 16 Valencia \| 17 Boyce \| 18 Scharner \| 19 Taylor \| 20 Folan \| 21 Cywka \| 22 Cotterill \| 24 Skoko \| 25 Unsworth \| 26 Baines \| 28 Nash \| 31 Montrose \| 32 Owens \| 36 Waterhouse \| Manager: Jewell