Rory Fallon

Rory Fallon
Personnel
Surname	Rory Michael Fallon
birthday	March 20, 1982
place of birth	Gisborne ,  New Zealand
size	191 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Barnsley FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2003	Barnsley FC	52 (11)
2001-2002	→  Shrewsbury Town  (loan)	11 0(0)
2003-2006	Swindon Town	75 (21)
2005	→  Yeovil Town  (loan)	6 0(1)
2006-2007	Swansea City	41 (12)
2007-2011	Plymouth Argyle	149 (22)
2010-2011	→  Ipswich Town  (loan)	6 0(1)
2011	Yeovil Town	5 0(0)
2011-2013	Aberdeen FC	37 0(3)
2013–	St. Johnstone FC	6 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2009–	New Zealand	17 0(4)
1 Only league games are given. As of January 1, 2014 2 As of December 8, 2013

Rory Michael Fallon (born March 20, 1982 in Gisborne ) is a New Zealand football player with a British passport. Fallon has played for various clubs in the English Football League since 1999 and scored the decisive goal in the World Cup qualification for the New Zealand national team in 2009. He currently plays for FC St. Johnstone in the Scottish Premier League .

Club career

Fallon, the son of former New Zealand coach Kevin Fallon , was playing in France for a New Zealand U-16 team in 1998 when he and teammate David Mulligan caught a Barnsley FC scout's attention and were drawn into the club's youth academy. He received his first professional contract in 1999 and made his competitive debut in a 4-0 loss to Preston North End in April 2001 , after he had recommended himself as the reserve's top scorer. He made his breakthrough at Barnsley in the 2002/03 season, after the team was relegated from the Football League Championship to Football League One in the preseason . In November 2003 he was signed for about £ 60,000 from Swindon Town after he had only received short-term contracts with Barnsley due to financial problems of the club. At Swindon, he initially acted mainly as a substitute, but scored seven hits in 21 games, including a spectacular overhead kick from the edge of the penalty area. He reached the promotion play-offs with Swindon, but failed in the semifinals on penalties at Brighton & Hove Albion .

The following season was disappointing for Fallon, still predominantly supplementary player, he scored only three hits in 31 missions and was in the meantime given to the fourth division Yeovil Town for a month . The season ended for him in April after he was banned for several weeks for assault. When Sam Parkin, a regular striker, was sold in the summer of 2005 , Fallon, whose strengths lie in the header game and who, despite being 188 centimeters tall, also has an acceptable ball handling, was in the starting eleven and scored twelve goals in 25 games by January 2006 . This goal rate was worth the league rival and promotion candidate Swansea City a transfer of 300,000 pounds, with which he signed a contract for two and a half years in late January. After a mixed start at his new club, he found his form again in the final phase of the season and scored, among other things, in the play-off final for promotion against his old club Barnsley, which was ultimately defeated 3: 4 on penalties. He also scored a goal in the 2-1 success in the final of the FAW Premier Cup 2006. After eight goals in 22 games at the beginning of the 2006/07 season, he moved for 300,000 pounds to second division Plymouth Argyle , for Plymouth at that time a record transfer.

At Plymouth it took until the 2008/09 season before he was more regular on the starting line-up, but has only been able to excel as a goalscorer sporadically since then. In the 2009/10 season he missed relegation with Plymouth as penultimate. In August 2011 Fallon played for a month at Yeovil Town before signing a contract with Aberdeen FC .

National team

Since Fallon played for English youth selections after his move to England and, according to the rules valid until 2009, he missed applying to FIFA for approval for the New Zealand national team before the age of 21 , he was unable to nominate for New Zealand for a long time become. It was not until FIFA lifted the age limit for a change of national team in June 2009 that Fallon was able to compete for New Zealand. He made his international debut with the former Scottish junior international Michael McGlinchey on September 9, 2009 against Jordan and contributed with a goal to the 3-1 victory. In October and November 2009 he was part of the squad in the two decisive World Cup qualifiers against Bahrain and ensured New Zealand's first participation with his header to the 1-0 win in the second leg in front of over 35,000 spectators, a record setting for a football game in New Zealand a world championship since 1982.

Web links

• Rory Fallon in the soccerbase.com database
• Rory Fallon in the weltfussball.de database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2001-2002 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Exxus Ltd, London 2001, ISBN 0-946531-34-X , pp. 99 .
2. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2004/2005. Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2004, ISBN 978-1-85291-660-2 , p. 135
3. ↑ Video of the hit on Youtube
4. ↑ Rory Fallon . Swansea City Football Club , archived from the original on July 24, 2011 ; accessed on May 2, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).  
5. ↑ Rory Fallon is now a Don ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. afc.co.uk 
6. ↑ sportal.com.au: NZ makes World Cup (November 14, 2009) ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.