Alan Mannus

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Alan Mannus
Personnel
birthday May 19, 1982
place of birth Toronto ,  Canada
size 188 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
Linfield FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2009 Linfield FC 211 (0)
2000 →  Larne FC  (loan) 1 (0)
2001 →  Carrick Rangers FC  (loan) 9 (0)
2009-2011 Shamrock Rovers 69 (0)
2011-2018 St. Johnstone FC 192 (0)
2018– Shamrock Rovers 47 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
Northern Ireland U-16 3 (0)
2004 Northern Ireland U-23 1 (0)
2004– Northern Ireland 9 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of October 25, 2019

2 As of November 15, 2016

Alan Mannus (born May 19, 1982 in Toronto , Canada ) is a Northern Irish football goalkeeper who is currently under contract with the Irish first division club Shamrock Rovers , for whom he played from 2009 to 2011. Between 2004 and 2016 he played nine games for the Northern Irish national team .

Career

societies

Mannus grew up in Mississauga, Canada, not far from his native Toronto. At the age of seven, his family moved to Northern Ireland , where his parents came from. There he played for St. Andrews and then the Lisburn Youth before moving to Linfield FC at the age of 16 . By 2009 he played 211 league games for the Northern Irish record champions and was Northern Irish champion five times . He also won the Irish Cup in 2002, 2006, 2007 (with three saved penalties in penalty shootouts ) and 2008 . In 2006 and 2008 the league cup was also won. In the first two years he was loaned to other clubs for a short time. With Linfield he took part in the UEFA Champions League three times but failed in the first qualifying round.

In 2009 he moved to the southern part of the island to the Shamrock Rovers , with whom he became Irish champions in 2010 and 2011 and in 2011 he won the Setanta Sports Cup , which he had won in 2005 with Linfield. In the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League he reached the third qualifying round with Shamrock, but failed there against the Italian record champions Juventus Turin . In the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League he survived the second qualifying round with Shamrock, but the club was eliminated in the third qualifying round after he had already moved to Scotland.

From 2011 he plays in the Scottish first division side FC St. Johnstone with which he 2014 the Scottish Cup , won for the club the first major title in his 130-year history. In qualifying for the UEFA Europa League, he never got past the third round with the Scots, where they mostly failed, sometimes on penalties or due to the away goals rule . After 22 games in the 2017/18 season , he returned to Shamrock Rovers for the remainder of the year .

Northern Ireland national team

Mannus played for the Northern Irish Juniors at the age of 14 and, although born in Canada , was never contacted by the Canadian Federation .

His first international match for the Northern Irish national team he played on June 6, 2004 in Bacolet in a 3-0 win in the friendly against Trinidad & Tobago when he came on for Maik Taylor in the 83rd minute . He was then a constant part of the team, but did not get past Taylor, who then played 50 more internationals, while Mannus only made four games by the end of Taylor's career. Even after Taylor stopped playing for Northern Ireland, Mannus was only used three times.

On May 18, 2016, he was appointed by team manager Michael O'Neill, although he had not played an international match since March 2014, in the provisional squad with 28 players for the European Championship finals.

In the first test match in preparation for the European Championship, he came on as a substitute for Roy Carroll , who became the goalkeeper in Northern Ireland in 2012 after Maik Taylor had ended his career, in the second half of a 3-0 win against the Belarusians who were not qualified for the European Championship . A day later Mannus was nominated for the final EM squad as a substitute goalkeeper. During the tournament he was not used. After the European Championships, he still played in the 0: 3 friendly game against Croatia on November 15, 2016. In the qualification for the 2018 World Cup , which began after the European Championship , he was part of the squad, but was not used.

successes

  • Northern Irish Champion: 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008
  • Northern Irish Cup Winner: 2002, 2006, 2007 and 2008
  • Northern Irish League Cup Winner: 2006 and 2008
  • Irish champions: 2010 and 2011
  • Irish Cup Winner: 2019
  • Scottish Cup Winner: 2014
  • Setanta Sports Cup winner: 2005 (with Linfield) and 2011 (with Shamrock)

Awards

  • 2008: Northern Ireland Footballer of the Year

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bbc.co: "Linfield deny Ports Double"
  2. ↑ bbc.co: "Glentoran 1-2 Linfield"
  3. ↑ bbc.co: "Linfield win cup after shoot-out"
  4. ↑ bbc.co: "Linfield 2-1 Coleraine"
  5. ↑ bbc.co: "Glentoran 0-3 Linfield"
  6. ↑ bbc.co: "Crusaders 2-3 Linfield"
  7. ↑ extratime.ie: "Shamrock Rovers win Setanta Sports Cup"
  8. ^ St Johnstone 2-0 Dundee United
  9. ↑ somesoccerplayingcanadians.wordpress.com: "Canadians Elsewhere Special: Alan Mannus"
  10. ↑ irishfa.com: "Northern Ireland squad to play Belarus"
  11. ^ North. Ireland 3-0 Belarus
  12. ↑ bbc.com: "Euro 2016: NI boss O'Neill names final 23-man squad"
  13. ↑ bbc.co: "Mannus is footballer of the year"
personal data
SURNAME Mannus, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Canada