Barry Nicholson

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Barry Nicholson
Full name	Barry Nicholson
Date of birth	August 24, 1978 (1978-08-24) (age 29)
Place of birth	Dumfries, Scotland
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	free agent
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1995–2000 2000–2005 2005–2008	Rangers Dunfermline Athletic Aberdeen	008 0(0) 174 (23) 101 (13)
National team
2001–2004	Scotland	003 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 19, 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Barry Nicholson (born 24 August 1978 in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway) is a Scottish professional football midfielder currently playing for Aberdeen .

He started his career at Rangers although he was a fan of home town club Queen of the South as a youngster ^[1], but limited appearances in Rangers' first team saw him join Dunfermline Athletic under the helm of Jimmy Calderwood.

Nicholson's performances at East End Park saw him signed by Aberdeen for a fee of £250,000 on July 2005 and re-joined former boss Calderwood who had since moved to Pittodrie. The move paid dividends as his strong performances towards the end of the 2006/2007 season scoring vital goals. The most notable of these goals is the last minute equaliser against Hearts, which all but clinched third place for Aberdeen, with only two matches of the season left at that stage.

On 31 October 2007, Nicholson scored the first hat-trick of his career, by scoring three goals against Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the quarter finals of the CIS Cup. Interestingly, two of these goals were penalties though.

Nicholson scored the 2nd goal for Aberdeen against Queen of the South in the 2007/08 Scottish Cup semi finals. Queens won the 7 goal thriller 4–3 to make it to the final for the first in their history.[1]

However on April 15, 2008, it was announced that Nicholson had turned down Aberdeen's final offer to stay at the club and would be leaving in the summer along with 6 other players. He had been linked with German Bundesliga side VfL Bochum as well as Swedish Allsvenskan team IFK Göteborg. He had also been linked with English clubs Preston North End, Plymouth Argyle , Nottingham Forest, Sheffield Wednesday and Leicester City

[edit] International football

Nicholson has won 3 caps for Scotland, the first being in the friendly draw with Poland in April 2001 while the last one - in the friendly defeat to Sweden in November 2004.

#	Date	Opponent	Result	Competition
1	Apr 25, 2001	Poland	Poland 1-1 Scotland	Friendly match
2	Oct 06, 2001	Latvia	Scotland 2-1 Latvia	World Cup qualifier
3	Nov 17, 2004	Sweden	Scotland 1-4 Sweden	Friendly match