Steven Taaffe

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Steven Taaffe
Personnel
Surname Steven Lee Taaffe
birthday September 10, 1979
place of birth Stoke-on-Trent ,  England
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
Stoke City
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-2001 Stoke City 8 (0)
2000 →  Northwich Victoria  (loan) 1 (0)
2001 Newry Town at least 1 (0)
2001– Stone dominoes
0000-2002 Rocester FC
2002-2003 Leek Town (7)
2003-2004 Alsager Town
2004 Leek Town (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Steven Lee Taaffe (born September 10, 1979 in Stoke-on-Trent ) is a retired English football player . The offensive player belonged to Stoke City between 1996 and 2001 and played eight league games during this time.

Career

Taaffe was a trainee at Stoke City before getting a professional contract in 1996. The only 165 cm tall winger made his competitive debut for the professional team in the second-rate First Division in March 1998 under Chris Kamara by substituting for the Tranmere Rovers after he had scored over 30 goals in games in the youth and reserve team. Taaffe came to the end of the season to three appearances as a substitute when Stoke relegated to the second division as penultimate . In the following season under coach Brian Little Taaffe remained largely limited to appearances in the reserve team, on the last day of the season he was against FC Walsall for the first time on the starting line-up for the professionals.

After a number of good performance in preparation for the 1999/2000 season Taaffe was in the first three games of the season under the new coach Gary Megson in the starting line-up, but could not maintain his place and was no longer considered in the rest of the season. In October 2000 he was awarded for a month at Northwich Victoria in the Football Conference , but came there only for one use. Some time later he played for a week at third division competitor Cambridge United , but the loan did not materialize. In May 2001 he left Stoke after eight league and one league cup appearance after he had not received a new contract offer.

In August 2001 he auditioned for FC Altrincham in preparation for the season. A little later he received a one-month contract with the Northern Irish first division club Newry Town , but showed a disappointing performance on his debut and was substituted at half time. His football career was then continued in the lower-class non-league football , initially with Stone Dominoes in the North West Counties Football League and FC Rocester in the Southern League , from March 2002 he played at Leek Town in the Northern Premier League (35 competitive games / 7 goals). From March 2003 to spring 2004 he played for Alsager Town again in the North West Counties League before he was briefly active again for Leek Town (6/0).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ barryhugmansfootballers.com: Profiles - Steven Taaffe , accessed June 29, 2020
  2. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1998, ISBN 1-85291-588-9 , pp. 291 .
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2000, ISBN 1-85291-626-5 , pp. 309 .
  4. ↑ skysports.com: THORNE AGREES NEW POTTERS DEAL , accessed on September 17, 2017
  5. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Stoke release five players (May 19, 2001) , accessed September 17, 2017
  6. ↑ lusaweb.co.uk: WITTON ALBION (1) 1 ALTRINCHAM (1) 3 (Aug. 15, 2001) , accessed September 17, 2017
  7. ↑ highbeam.com: Football: It's Ard luck as Newry blow the lot; NEWRY TN 0 ARDS 1. (Sport) (Sep. 2, 2001) ( Memento from September 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 17, 2017
  8. ↑ pitchero.com: The LTFC Archive - Season By Season - 2001/02 , accessed April 7, 2019
  9. ↑ pitchero.com: The LTFC Archive - Season By Season - 2002/03 , accessed April 7, 2019
  10. ^ Steve Whitney: Ultimate Book of Non-League Players 2004-05 . Baltic Publications, 2004, ISBN 0-9544091-1-6 , pp. 561 .
  11. ↑ non-leagueclubdirectory.co.uk: Leek Town 2004–2005 Team Photo , accessed September 17, 2017
  12. ↑ manchestereveningnews.co.uk: Tigers slump to sorry Trophy loss (May 7, 2005) , accessed September 17, 2017
  13. ↑ pitchero.com: The LTFC Archive - Season By Season - 2003/04 , accessed April 7, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Taaffe, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taaffe, Steven Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Stoke-on-Trent