Richard Duffy
| Richard Duffy | ||
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Richard Michael Duffy | |
| birthday | August 30, 1985 | |
| place of birth | Swansea , Wales | |
| position | right full-back | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Swansea City | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2001-2004 | Swansea City | 18 (1) |
| 2004-2009 | Portsmouth FC | 1 (0) |
| 2004 | → Burnley FC (loan) | 7 (1) |
| 2005 | → Coventry City (loan) | 14 (0) |
| 2005-2006 | → Coventry City (loan) | 32 (0) |
| 2006 | → Coventry City (loan) | 13 (0) |
| 2007 | → Swansea City (loan) | 12 (0) |
| 2008 | → Coventry City (loan) | 2 (0) |
| 2009 | Millwall FC | 12 (0) |
| 2009– | Exeter City | 95 (3) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2004-2006 | Wales U-21 | 7 (0) |
| 2005-2008 | Wales | 13 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of January 13, 2011 |
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Richard Michael Duffy (born August 30, 1985 in Swansea ) is a Welsh football player . The 13-time Welsh international was under contract for five years with first division club Portsmouth FC from 2004 to 2009 , but spent much of his time on loan at lower-class professional clubs, particularly Coventry City . The defender has been under contract with Exeter City since 2009 .
Career
Richard Duffy, whose older brother Robert (* 1982) is also a professional footballer, came to Swansea City as a trainee in 2001 and already gave up in December of the same year in a 4-1 defeat in the FA Cup against Macclesfield Town at the age of 16 years and 99 days his debut in the professional team. A stress fracture of the back caused the season to end prematurely, and in the 2002/03 season he received his first professional contract. Until his league debut in the fourth-rate Football League Third Division , another year passed, his debut on August 30, 2003 against Mansfield Town he made two weeks later against Macclesfield his first goal in professional football. After only 18 league appearances for Swansea in the first half of the season, higher-class clubs showed interest in the full-back talent. The Portsmouth FC with coach Harry Redknapp could be cost about £ 300,000 a change in the winter transfer window, thus securing the long-term services Duffy. At Portsmouth he made his Premier League debut on the last day of the 2003/04 season in a 1-1 draw, the first of only two competitive appearances during his five-year stay in Portsmouth.
In the following season he was loaned to Burnley FC for two months in September 2004 to collect match practice in the Football League Championship and from the end of January until the end of the season to Coventry City , the first of four loan stays at Coventry over the following three years. With his serenity and his positional play, he was so convincing at Coventry that at the end of the season he was invited to a training camp for the Welsh national team for the first time by national coach John Toshack and Coventry coach Micky Adams successfully tried to get another loan for the entire 2005/06 season . Duffy, who had previously played for the U-21 national team, made his international debut for Wales on August 17, 2005 in a goalless friendly against Slovenia . In the following months he also played four internationals as part of the qualification for the 2006 World Cup , but at this point Wales already had no chance of a successful qualification. At Coventry he was one of the regulars and ended the season in the top third of the table.
Back at Portsmouth, it was only enough to play in the League Cup in the early stages of the season, before he moved to Coventry again on loan for two months from October 2006 and spent the second half of the season at his youth club Swansea City in Football League One . Meanwhile, his situation at Portsmouth did not improve in the following season. With no chance of playing in the professional team, in addition to his last international match (2-0 against Luxembourg), his fourth loan period at Coventry followed in March 2008, but a muscle injury already caused the season to end after two appearances. In the last year of his contract with Portsmouth, he continued to play no role and in February 2009 he was finally given an early, free transfer to Millwall FC . Despite twelve appearances for the London club, he did not receive a new contract at the end of the season and joined the third division competitor Exeter City after a successful trial session . At Exeter he was part of the regular staff in his first season and was used in all positions of the defense line when he just secured relegation with the promoted team.
Web links
- Richard Duffy in the soccerbase.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2002/2003 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2002, ISBN 1-85291-648-6 , pp. 119 .
- ↑ bbc.co.uk: Pompey up Duffy stakes (Dec. 30, 2003)
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2005/2006 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2005, ISBN 1-85291-662-1 , pp. 119 .
- ↑ givemefootball.com: Richard Duffy official PFA interview (July 8, 2005) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009-10 . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2009, ISBN 978-1-84596-474-0 , pp. 127 f .
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010-11 . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2010, ISBN 978-1-84596-601-0 , pp. 128 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Duffy, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duffy, Richard Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | welsh football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swansea |