Darryl Roberts

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Darryl Roberts
Personal information
Full name Darryl Roberts
Date of birth September 26, 1983 (1983-09-26) (age 24)
Place of birth    Saint Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position striker
Club information
Current club unattached
Youth clubs
1998-2001
2002–2005		 Fatima College
Liberty University
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
2005-2006
2007—2008		 Carolina Dynamo
Sparta Rotterdam		 27 (17)
34 (9)   
National team2
2007 Flag of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 12 (1)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 20 May 2008.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 20 May 2008.
* Appearances (Goals)

Darryl Roberts (born September 26, 1983 in Saint Joseph) is a football (soccer) player who left Sparta Rotterdam in the summer of 2008.

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[edit] Club career

In Trinidad and Tobago, he attended El Dorado Junior Secondary school however transferred to Fatima College (Secondary School) in 1998 [1]. He represented both schools at age divisional levels and Fatima College at the Intercol competition and North Zone league [2]. Roberts attended Liberty University. In his freshman year he was named Soccer America and College Soccer News Freshman All-American, was on the NSCAA South Atlantic All-Region second team honors, and was also named Big South Freshman of the Year and to the Big South All-Conference first team.

In his sophomore year he earned Big South all-conference second team honors and was a VaSID All-State second team selection, was named to the Trinidad and Tobago national football team in spring of 2003, becoming the first Liberty student-athlete to ever be named to a full national team. Roberts came to play in the United States in his late high school years. He was brought to High Point, NC to play for Trinidadian Anton Corneal's club '83 PSA Stars with future NCAA players Dane Brenner (USF), Osei Telesford (Liberty University, Chicago Fire), Hub Orr (Duke), Cliff Wright (Centre College), and Jordan Shaver (Hampden-Sydney).

In his junior year he was an NSCAA South Atlantic All-Region second team selection, he was named to VaSID All-State second team and he also earned Big South all-conference second team honors.

He is second on the Liberty all-time points list, and third in all time goals. While at Liberty, Roberts also played for Carolina Dynamo in the USL Premier Development League.

Roberts was drafted by Toronto FC as the 14th overall pick of the 2007 MLS Supplemental Draft, but chose to move to Europe with Sparta Rotterdam instead. Toronto holds his MLS rights for 2 seasons. He was previously at Liberty University from 2002 until 2005 and played four years for the Flames.

[edit] Career at Sparta

Roberts debuted for Sparta on 1 April 2007 in a home match against SC Heerenveen. Within two minutes he scored his first goal. His first full season also proved to be his last, then Sparta technical director Danny Blind deemed him surplus to requirements in April 2008.[3]

[edit] International career

Roberts made his debut for the Soca Warriors in a January 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifying match against Barbados.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Darryl Roberts
  2. ^ ‘New’ Warriors get MLS picks
  3. ^ Roberts to leave Sparta - Algemeen Dagblad (Dutch)
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