Grant Young (soccer) explained

Grant Young
Fullname:Grant Young[1]
Position:Striker
Birth Date:3 March 1971
Birth Place:Cape Town, South Africa
Currentclub:Hibiscus Coast
Clubs1:Hellenic FC
Clubs2:Ghent
Clubs3:East Coast Bays
Clubs4:Central United
Clubs5:Auckland City FC
Clubs6:Forrest Hill Milford
Nationalyears1:1994
Nationalcaps1:1
Nationalgoals1:0
Nationalteam1:South Africa

Grant Young (born 3 March 1971 in Cape Town) is a football (soccer) player who represented South Africa at international level and participated in two FIFA Club World Cups. Father of the great Shaydon Young, former Waibop striker.

Career

Born in South Africa, Young spent much of his career with local club Hellenic before a stint with Ghent in Belgium.[2] He emigrated to New Zealand in 2004 where he played first for East Coast Bays, before joining Central United and subsequently Auckland City FC.[3]

He represented Auckland City in their first FIFA Club World Cup appearance in 2006,[4] in which they failed to impress, losing every game, and failing to score a single goal, and again in the 2009 competition in United Arab Emirates where they fared better, beating TP Mazembe 3-2 before going out to Atlante FĂștbol Club in the quarter-finals.[5]

International career

Young made a solitary appearance for South Africa as a substitute in a friendly against Australia on 12 June 1994. Australia won the match 1-0.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2009 presented by Toyota: List of Players . FIFA . 3 . 9 December 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120902182958/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/95/12/84/fcwc_2009_squadlists.pdf . 2 September 2012 . dead.
  2. Web site: Player Profile at Auckland City . 16 January 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180608/http://www.aucklandcityfc.com/squad/profile.asp?ID=1 . 3 March 2016 . dead .
  3. Web site: Soccer: Young gun looks to hang up the boots. NZ Herald. 16 January 2009.
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20070824031351/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=107/edition=248388/teams/team=1903515.html 2006 FIFA Club World Cup - Auckland City FC squad
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20091215044641/http://www.fifa.com/clubworldcup/teams/team=1903515/squadlist.html 2009 FIFA Club World Cup - Auckland City FC squad
  6. Web site: South Africa - International Matches 1992-1995. RSSSF. 15 January 2010.