Issey Nakajima-Farran
| Issey Nakajima-Farran | ||
 2019 at Pacific FC
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Issey Morgan Nakajima-Farran | |
| birthday | May 16, 1984 | |
| place of birth | Calgary , Canada | |
| size | 178 cm | |
| position | attack | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Crystal Palace | ||
| Tokyo Verdy | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2003 | Albirex Niigata | 0 (0) |
| 2004-2005 | Albirex Niigata (Singapore) | 45 (26) |
| 2006-2007 | Vejle BK | 41 (13) |
| 2007-2009 | FC Nordsjælland | 46 (8) |
| 2009-2011 | AC Horsens | 55 (9) |
| 2011–2012 | Brisbane Roar | 23 (4) |
| 2012-2013 | AEK Larnaka | 10 (1) |
| → 2013 | Alki Larnaka | 15 (3) |
| 2014 | Toronto FC | 5 (2) |
| 2014 | Montreal Impact | 15 (0) |
| 2015-2017 | Terengganu FA | at least 18 (7) |
| 2018-2019 | Pahang FA | at least 10 (6) |
| 2019 | Pacific FC | 18 (1) |
| 2020– | CCB LFC United | 0 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 2006– | Canada | 24 (1) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: July 1, 2020 2 As of October 31, 2011 |
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Issey Morgan Nakajima-Farran (born May 16, 1984 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a Canadian football player .
Club career
Nakajima-Farran was born in Calgary , Canada in 1984 and moved to Japan with his family in 1987. There he started playing football, which he continued to play after moving to London in 1994. At the age of 16, he decided to go back to Japan without his parents in order to pursue a career as a professional footballer. From 2000 to 2002 he played in the youth team of Tokyo Verdy before he got a professional contract with Albirex Niigata in 2003 . In his first season in the professional field, Nakajima-Farran remained without commitment and then took the opportunity to play in Singapore in the S. League from 2004 for the club's own youth team Albirex Niigata . After twelve goals in his first season, the offensive player increased his scoring to 14 goals in his second year and was named the best young player of 2005 within the league. He also represented the Singapore Football Association in a game against Japan's U-23 team, in which he scored one goal in a 2-2 draw and prepared the second. Despite his achievements in Singapore, his Japanese home club wanted to keep him on the junior team in Singapore, whereupon Nakajima-Farran went back to Europe.
After trial training at the English clubs Portsmouth and Reading FC , he finally signed a contract with the Danish second division club Vejle BK in early 2006 , where coach Kim Poulsen had previously worked as a coach in the S. League. At the end of the 2006/07 season he rose to the highest Danish league with Vejle . After the direct relegation he left Vejle and remained in the first division through his move to FC Nordsjælland . Having increasingly rare in his second season at Nordsjælland inserts and there was little prospect of improvement for the 2009-10 season, he moved in late August just before the transfer deadline in the second Danish league for AC Horsens , which also his brother Paris Nakajima-Farran committed . With Horsens he rose in 2010 to the Danish Super League and managed to stay in the 2010/11 season. Shortly after the start of the 2011/12 season, he dissolved his contract with Horsens and moved to the reigning Australian champions Brisbane Roar in late August 2011 .
After only one season at Brisbane, in which he scored four goals in 23 games, Nakajima-Farran was drawn to the AEK Larnaka in Cyprus with the start of the 2012/13 season . He played ten times for AEK until the winter break and scored one goal. In January 2013 he was loaned to Alki Larnaka for the remainder of the season , for which he completed 15 appearances (three goals).
In early 2013 he changed continent again by moving to Major League Soccer for Canadian club Toronto FC . Nakajima-Farran scored two goals in five games for Toronto. He then moved on May 16, 2014 in exchange for Collen Warner and a transfer fee to league competitor Montreal Impact .
National team
Nakajima-Farran had initially hoped that the Japanese association would consider him and, based on his résumé, he was also eligible to play for the British football associations and Singapore, but finally decided on a career in the Canadian national team . He made his international debut on November 15, 2006 in a 0-1 defeat in a friendly against Hungary. In June 2007 he was part of the Canadian contingent at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in the USA and came to three appearances when the Canadian team advanced to the semifinals. As a result, he was a regular member of the national squad, including at the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2009 , when he only made a brief appearance when he reached the quarter-finals.
Web links
- Issey Nakajima-Farran in the MLSSoccer.com database
- Issey Nakajima-Farran in the database of weltfussball.de
- Profile at the Canadian Association
- Personal homepage of Nakajima-Farran
- Issey Nakajima-Farran in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Issey Nakajima-Farran in the soccerway.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Roar's Mystery Man Revealed (Aug. 31, 2011)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nakajima-Farran, Issey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nakajima-Farran, Issey Morgan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Calgary |