Louis Crayton

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Personal information
Louis Crayton
Date of birth	October 26, 1977 (1977-10-26) (age 30)
Place of birth	Monrovia, Liberia
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	FC Basel
Number	18
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1995-1997 1997-1998 1998-2000 2000 2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2005 2005-present	Saint Joseph Warriors FC Lucerne Grasshopper-Club Zürich FC Schaffhausen FC Wangen bei Olten SC Young Fellows Juventus FC Zug 94 FC Concordia Basel FC Basel	33 (0) 4 (0) 3 (0) 13 (0) 6 (0) 15 (0) 13 (4) 44 (0) 11 (0)
National team²
1999-2007	Liberia	35 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 October 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 19 September 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Louis Crayton (born 26 October 1977 in Bong Mines) is a Liberian football goalkeeper who is currently signed by FC Basel of the Swiss Super League. He has been playing for various clubs in Switzerland since 1997 and also holds Swiss citizenship.

[edit] Football career

He started his career playing for St. Joseph Warriors in Liberia before moving to his first Swiss club, FC Lucerne, in 1997. He went on to spend two seasons at Grasshoppers Zürich between 1998 and 2000 before going on to spend one half-season apiece at FC Schaffhausen and FC Wangen bei Olten in 2000 and 2001. He then moved to Juventus Zürich and spent the entire 2001-02 season with the club before going on to spend the entire 2002-03 season at FC Zug 94. In the summer of 2003, he moved to Concordia Basel and spent two seasons with the club before joining FC Basel in July 2005. However, he spent his entire first season with Basel on the bench as a backup for their first-choice keeper at the time, Pascal Zuberbühler, who played in all of the club's competitive matches that season. Crayton finally made his competitive debut for Basel in July 2006, when he made two appearances in both Swiss Super League and UEFA Cup qualification. He also played one match in the UEFA Cup group stage in November 2006 due to a red-card suspension of the first-choice keeper Franco Costanzo.

In 2004, he also made two appearances for Liberia in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying.

Due to typing errors or spelling mistakes Louis Crayton is sometimes known as Louis Clayton.

[edit] Honours

Basel

Swiss Cup: 2007, 2008
Swiss Super League: 2005, 2008

[edit] External links

v • d • e FC Basel – current squad

1 Costanzo • 3 Hodel • 4 Morganella • 7 Degen • 8 Huggel • 9 Perović • 10 Streller • 11 Chipperfield • 12 Ba • 14 Stocker • 16 Frei • 18 Crayton • 21 Marque • 22 Ergić • 23 Eduardo • 24 Cabral • 25 Leutwiler • 28 Ferati • 30 Carlitos • 31 Derdiyok • 32 Zanni • -- Gündüz • -- Schürpf • -- Sommer • Coach: Gross