Gary Breen

Gary Breen
Personnel
Surname	Gary Patrick Breen
birthday	December 12, 1973
place of birth	Hendon ,  England
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
	Charlton Athletic
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1990-1991	Charlton Athletic	0 (0)
1991-1992	Maidstone United	19 (0)
1992-1994	Gillingham FC	51 (0)
1994-1996	Peterborough United	69 (1)
1996-1997	Birmingham City	40 (2)
1997-2002	Coventry City	146 (2)
2002-2003	West Ham United	14 (0)
2003-2006	Sunderland AFC	107 (7)
2006-2008	Wolverhampton Wanderers	59 (1)
2008-2010	Barnet FC	47 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Ireland U-21
1996-2006	Ireland	63 (7)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2009-2010	FC Barnet (Kotrainer)
1 Only league games are given.

Gary Patrick Breen (born December 12, 1973 in Hendon ) is a former Irish football player . The 63-time Irish international played for nine different clubs, relegated from the Premier League with three different clubs and switched to FC Barnet in 2008 , where he also held the position of assistant coach between 2009 and 2010.

Athletic career

The central defender's career began in the youth department of Charlton Athletic , where he was denied the subsequent jump to the professional division. Instead, Breen moved to fourth division Maidstone United in March 1991 , where he played his first professional league games at the age of 17. The fact that the stay there with the "Stones" was only of short duration was less of a sporting nature, but was due to the bankruptcy of the club in 1992 - the club finally started seven classes lower in the 1993/94 season as the "new Maidstone United " . Breen had already signed on with fourth division rivals FC Gillingham and developed into a regular there. For 70,000 pounds he moved to Peterborough United for the 1994/95 season , which had recently been relegated to the third division.

The club in Peterborough ultimately served as a springboard and after only 1½ years paid first division side Birmingham City in February 1996 £ 250,000 for the services of the young Irishman, who also became interesting for the Irish national team. On June 2, 1996 he came in a friendly against Croatia (2-2) to his first international match. Another twelve months had passed and so Breen moved to Coventry City within the Premier League for £ 2.5 million . There he played until the end of the 2001/02 season - four of five years in the English top division - and at the same time cemented his place in the Irish selection. The highlight there was his participation in the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea , where he reached the second round under coach Mick McCarthy , was on the field in all games and scored a goal in the 3-0 preliminary round win over Saudi Arabia .

After the World Cup tournament, Breen joined West Ham United on a free transfer , but left the club after a year when the Hammers were relegated from the first division in 2003. The next address was Sunderland AFC , which was now coached by the former Irish national coach McCarthy and who later even made him team captain. Breen succeeded with the "Black Cats" in the second year as second division champion promotion to the Premier League, after he had failed in the play-off games the year before - the consistent and reliable performance in the defense center brought him in the support of the AFC Sunderland nicknamed "The Phenomenon". Nevertheless, he was not spared the direct relegation the following year and suffered this sporting setback of the first division relegation with a third club.

With his new start with a two-year contract with Wolverhampton Wanderers , he continued to work with Mick McCarthy, who had found a new sporting challenge there that same year. He moved into the play-offs with the "Wolves" in 2007, but then had to take more breaks in the 2007/08 season due to injury. He had already ended his national team career at this point after he had resigned in response to a non-nomination of the new sporting director Steve Staunton for the game against the Netherlands in August 2006. At the club, too, Breen stumbled upon a disagreement with his coach when he had a loud argument with McCarthy after a game in March 2008, which ensured his early leave of absence before the end of the contract period.

Half a year later, Breen moved to fourth division club FC Barnet . There he worked from the start in parallel in the coaching staff of the "Bees" and acted alongside Ian Hendon between June 2009 and his departure from the club in the summer of 2010 in the official assistant coaching function.

Web links

• Gary Breen in the database of weltfussball.de
• Gary Breen in the soccerbase.com database
• Profile at FC Barnet ( Memento from March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ "McCarthy and Breen in bust-up" (Express & Star)
2. ↑ "GARY BREEN SAYS" THANK YOU "" ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (FC Barnet)