Kieran Lee

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Kieran Lee
Personal information
Full name Kieran Lee
Date of birth June 22, 1988 (1988-06-22) (age 19)
Place of birth    Stalybridge, England
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Full back, Central midfield
Club information
Current club Oldham Athletic
Youth clubs
2004–2008 Manchester United
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
2006–2008
2008
2008–		 Manchester United
→ Queens Park Rangers (loan)
Oldham Athletic		 1 (0)
7 (0)
0 (0)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 13:44, 21 May 2008 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

Kieran Lee (born 22 June 1988 in Stalybridge, Tameside) is an English footballer. He currently plays in central midfield or at full-back for Oldham Athletic, having signed on a free transfer from Manchester United in May 2008.

[edit] Biography

A central midfielder earlier in his career, he was deployed more often by Manchester United as a full-back, either on the left or on the right. He signed for the club on a youth contract in July 2004, after impressing in the club's Under-17 team for the past two years. He continued to progress up the youth system, playing 25 times for the Under-18s in 2004–05, and making another 23 appearances in 2005–06. He also played in 16 matches for the Reserves that season, in various competitions.

His performances that season earned him a two-year professional contract with the club and, just three days after signing it, he was given his first taste of first team football, coming on as a second half substitute for Wes Brown in Roy Keane's testimonial against Celtic at Old Trafford. In addition to this, he also made appearances in first team friendlies prior to the 2006-07 season, first coming on as a substitute for Phil Bardsley away to Preston North End, and then playing the full 90 minutes of a 2–1 victory over Macclesfield Town.

Lee's Reserve team performances were rewarded in the 2006–07 season by him being given the captain's armband. In between his 25 appearances for the Reserves that season, Lee also made his first team debut. He was named as a substitute in the League Cup Third Round tie against Crewe Alexandra and, with the score at 1–1, he came on for David Gray in the 77th minute. The match went to extra-time and, with less than two minutes remaining, Lee made a charging run up from right-back to latch onto an Alan Smith through-ball. He composed himself, and slid the ball coolly past Crewe's former Manchester United goalkeeper, Ben Williams.[1]

This appearance was followed up by another in the Fourth Round of the League Cup, this time against Southend United. Lee came on for John O'Shea in the 75th minute, but was unable to rescue the team from a 1–0 loss. Towards the end of the season, United suffered a dearth of defenders, with Mikaël Silvestre, Patrice Evra, Gary Neville and Nemanja Vidić all out through injury at one time or another, so Lee was called into the squad for the matches against Milan and Everton, although he did not play in either game. He finally made his Premier League debut against Chelsea on 9 May 2007. Since the title race had been sewn up the game before, United manager Alex Ferguson was able to select a team of fringe players for the game, including Lee. At the end of the season, in recognition of his fine performances over the preceding 12 months, Lee was awarded the Denzil Haroun Reserve Player of the Year award.[2]

On 12 December 2007, Lee was again named as a substitute for the Champions League game against Roma, but did not get to play. It was announced on 28 December 2007 that Lee would be joining Queens Park Rangers on loan from 2 January 2008. He would then be eligible to play for QPR against Chelsea in the FA Cup on 5 January.[3]

After spending four months on loan at QPR, making seven appearances, Lee became Oldham Athletic's first signing of summer 2008. Moving on a free transfer, Lee signed a two-year contract with the Latics, which is due to begin on 1 July 2008.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Crewe 1-2 Man Utd (aet)", BBC Sport, 2006-10-25. Retrieved on 2007-12-31. 
  2. ^ "And the award goes to..." (July 2007). Inside United - The Official Manchester United Magazine (180): pp34–38. Manchester: Future Publishing. 
  3. ^ "QPR swoop for Man Utd starlet Lee", BBC Sport, 2007-12-28. Retrieved on 2007-12-31. 
  4. ^ "UNITED'S LEE IS FIRST SIGNING", oldhamathletic.co.uk, 2008-05-21. Retrieved on 2008-05-21. 

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Persondata
NAME Lee, Kieran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lee, Kieran
SHORT DESCRIPTION footballer
DATE OF BIRTH 1988-06-22
PLACE OF BIRTH Stalybridge, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH