| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gary Glen | ||
| Date of birth | 22 March 1990 | ||
| Place of birth | Livingston, Scotland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Heart of Midlothian | ||
| Number | 23 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2006–2007 | Heart of Midlothian | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2007– | Heart of Midlothian | 44 | (4) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 May 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
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Gary Glen (born 22 March 1990 in Livingston, West Lothian) is a Scottish professional football player currently playing for Heart of Midlothian in the Scottish Premier League.
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Glen, a former pupil of Broxburn Academy, joined Heart of Midlothian from their Boys Club system in 2006. He has featured for Scotland at youth team level, scoring against Northern Ireland and England in the 2005 Victory Shield.[1]
Highly rated by the Hearts coaching staff,[2] Glen earned his first involvement with the first team squad when he was an unused substitute in a league match at Motherwell on 5 March 2007. At the age of 16, Glen had a trial with Manchester United, but turned them down as he thought he was more likely to make it as a footballer with Hearts than with the Old Trafford club. He made his senior debut as a substitute against Dundee United on 17 March 2007.
He has begun to feature more for the first team towards the end of the 2007/08 season, starting his first game in the fixture against St. Mirren at Tynecastle on 19 April 2008. In an impressive performance, Glen scored his first senior goal, and the second of the game, to put his team in front as Hearts came back from a goal down to win 3–2. Glen was awarded the Clydesdale Bank U19 Graduate award for his 'significant breakthrough'. He continued this with the only goal of the game in his second start against Inverness Caledonian Thistle on 26 April.
On the 3 May 2008 edition of 'Soccer AM', Glen and former Hearts youngster Matej Rapnik, appeared on the sub program, 'Skill Skool', where they went head-to-head in a battle of skill. Unfortunately for Glen, he picked up his first red card for a tackle on a Gretna player, during the last game of the season for Hearts.
Glen failed to make another first team appearance until December 27, 2008 against Aberdeen as a substitute. He appeared twice more in consecutive matches against Hibernian and Motherwell. On January 11, 2009, Glen came off the bench with 10 minutes remaining and scored a decisive 94th minute goal against Hibernian at Easter Road in the fourth round of the Scottish Cup, to the delight of the visitors.
Glen was accused of lacking a good attitude toward his game by former manager Csaba László and consequently failed to become a regular in the Hearts team during season 2008/09.
Glen has become a regular starter for the Hearts first team in season 2009/10, and scored his first goal of the new season against Dunfermline Athletic in the Co-operative Insurance League Cup on September 23, 2009. In December 2011, Glen was told that his career at Hearts was drawing to a close, that the player could either find a new club in the January 2012 transfer window, or be released when his contract expires in summer 2012.[3]
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