Dan Woodards

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Danny Woodards
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Woodards
Date of birth	October 8, 1983 (1983-10-08) (age 24)
Place of birth	Forest Gate, London, England
Height	1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Crewe Alexandra
Number	2
Youth clubs
	Chelsea
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2005–2007 2007–Present	Exeter City Crewe Alexandra	49 (0) 16 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of September 11, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Danny Woodards (born October 8, 1983 in Forest Gate, London, England) is a professional footballer with English League 1 side Crewe Alexandra.

Woodards, a defender, began his career as a trainee with Premiership side Chelsea, but was released during the summer of 2005 without making an appearance for the club. After spending a short time on trial with League Two side Wycombe Wanderers, he signed on non-contract terms for English Conference side Exeter City on 29 October 2005. Woodards was able to impress former Exeter City manager Alex Inglethorpe enough to secure a contract through the 2006–07 season.

During his time with Exeter, Woodards proved himself to be a versatile and talented player. Able to play both as a right-back and right-sided winger, he quickly established himself as Exeter's first choice right-back.

After rejecting a series of new contracts from Exeter during the 2006-07 season, Woodards when on trial with League One side Yeovil Town during the January transfer window. Glovers manager Russell Slade was reportedly interested in signing the English defender, but it was Dario Gradi of fellow League One side Crewe Alexandra who managed to sign Woodards for a fee of £30,000 and a 20% sell-on clause. On 16th December 2007 he was linked with a move to Premier League side Sunderland.

[edit] Career statistics

(correct as of 17 August 2007)

Club	Season	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Exeter City	2005–06	27	0	-	-	-	-	2	0	29	0
	2006–07	21 (1)	0	1	0	-	-	1	0	23 (1)	0
	All	48 (1)	0	1	0	-	-	3	0	52 (1)	0
Crewe Alexandra	2006-07	9 (2)	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	9 (2)	0
	2007-08	5	0	-	-	1	0	-	-	2	0
	All	14 (2)	0	-	-	1	0	-	-	11 (2)	0
Career totals		62 (3)	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	63 (3)	0

Source: Soccerbase

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