Ryan Esson

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Personal information
Ryan Esson
Date of birth	March 19, 1980
Place of birth	Aberdeen, Scotland
Height	6 ft 1 in / 1.85 m
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Shrewsbury Town
Number	1
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1997 - 2006 2002 2006 -	Aberdeen → Rotherham United (loan) Shrewsbury Town	89 (0) 00 (0) 06 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2006-12-14. * Appearances (Goals)

Ryan Esson (born March 19, 1980 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish professional football goalkeeper currently playing for Shrewsbury Town.

1 Career
- 1.1 Aberdeen
- 1.2 Shrewsbury
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Aberdeen

Esson started his career with Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen. Debuting on May 14, 2000 in the 5-1 win over Kilmarnock, he became Aberdeen's first-choice keeper for 2000-01. After losing his place the following season, he had a brief loan spell at Rotherham United in March to May of 2002.

Esson didn't play at all in 2002-03 and only twice in 2003-04, but played the majority of Aberdeen's games in 2004-05, and the former Scotland Youth and U21 international was an unused substitute when the senior side played the USA in November 2005.

His contract expired at the end of the 2005-06 season, and after playing in 18 matches in the season, Esson decided to leave the club in order to get more first team games. His final appearance was against Celtic on 7 May 2006 where the match ended 2-2.

[edit] Shrewsbury

He joined Shrewsbury Town on 30 June 2006 on a free transfer and made his debut in the 2006-07 opener against Mansfield Town, which finished 2-2. After playing in Shrewsbury's first six league matches he was dropped in favour of Chris MacKenzie.

Whilst playing in a reserve fixture on September 18, 2006, Esson sustained a broken cheekbone, and it was later revealed that he would be sidelined for up to ten weeks.^[1]

[edit] References

^ Injuries and Suspensions. www.shrewsburytown.co.uk. Retrieved on September 21, 2006.

[edit] External links

Ryan Esson career stats at Soccerbase

Shrewsbury Town F.C. - Current Squad
1 Esson \| 2 Hall \| 3 Ashton \| 4 Drummond \| 5 Hope \| 6 Canoville \| 7 M. Jones \| 8 Langmead \| 9 Cooke \| 10 Asamoah \| 12 Herd \| 14 Davies \| 18 Leslie \| 19 Edwards \| 21 MacKenzie \| 22 Humphrey \| 23 Tierney \| 24 Symes \| 25 L. Jones \| 28 Burton \| 29 Fortune-West \| 31 Shearer \| Manager: Peters