Damon Searle
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Damon Searle | ||
Personal information | ||
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Full name | Damon Searle | |
Date of birth | October 26, 1971 | |
Place of birth | Cardiff, Wales | |
Playing position | Midfielder | |
Club information | ||
Current club | Carmarthen Town | |
Youth clubs | ||
Cardiff City | ||
Senior clubs1 | ||
Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
1990-1996 1996-1998 1998-2000 1999 2000-2003 2003 2003-2004 2004 2004-2006 2006-2008 2008- |
Cardiff City Stockport County Carlisle United → Rochdale (loan) Southend United Chesterfield Forest Green Hornchurch Forest Green Newport County Carmarthen Town |
234 (3) 41 (0) 66 (3) 14 (0) 133 (3) 5 (0) 31 (4) 13 (0) 63 (2) 53 (2) 0 (0) |
National team | ||
Wales U21 | ||
1 Senior club appearances and goals |
Damon Searle (born October 26, 1971) is a Welsh professional footballer. He is a left-sided defender and midfielder currently playing for Carmarthen Town.
Searle began his career as a trainee at his home town club Cardiff City. It was here that he spent the major part of his career before leaving on a free transfer to sign for Stockport County. In the following years he left Stockport and played for Carlisle United, during which time he had a short loan spell at Rochdale, before moving to Southend United[1] as a replacement for, the previous seasons player of the year, Nathan Jones. He was released by Southend in the summer of 2003 and was signed on a month by month deal by Chesterfield as short term cover for several of their injured players [2] but he was soon released by the club [3].
He spent the rest of his career in the lower leagues with Forest Green Rovers before moving back to his home country by signing for Newport County[4] and captained the side on several occasions[5]. During his time at Newport they twice narrowly missed out on the promotion play-offs and twice appeared in the FAW Premier Cup final, winning the 2008 final. Searle was released by Newport at the end of the 2007-08 season and went on to sign for Carmarthen Town.[6]
[edit] International career
Searle is a former Wales under-21 international.
[edit] Refereneces
- ^ "Searle joins Shrimpers" BBC Sport Retrieved on 7 October 2007
- ^ "Searle joins Chesterfield" BBC Sport Retrieved on 7 October 2007
- ^ "Robinson moves to Saltergate" BBC Sport Retrieved on 7 October 2007
- ^ "Searle leaves Rovers for Newport" BBC Sport Retrieved on 7 October 2007
- ^ "County's cup run continues" icWales Retrieved on 7 October 2007
- ^ "Brief City return for Searle" South Wales Echo Retrieved on 13 June 2008