Warren Feeney

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Warren Feeney
Personal information
Full name Warren Feeney
Date of birth January 17, 1981 (1981-01-17) (age 27)
Place of birth    Belfast, Northern Ireland
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current club Cardiff City
Number 14
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1998-2001
2001
2001-2004
2004-2005
2005- 2007
2007
2007-
2007		 Leeds United
→ Bournemouth (loan)
Bournemouth
Stockport County
Luton Town
→ Cardiff City (loan)
Cardiff City
→ Swansea City (loan)		 00 0(0)
10 0(4)
98 (32)
31 (15)
77 0(8)
06 0(0)
05 0(0)
10 0(5)   
National team

2002-		 Northern Ireland U21
Flag of Northern Ireland Northern Ireland
24 (3)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 15:18 18 May 2008 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

Warren Feeney (born January 17, 1981 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a professional footballer. He currently plays for Football League Championship side Cardiff City.

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[edit] Club career

His career started when he joined St Andrews FC, once scoring an incredible 54 goals in one season.

Feeney started off as a trainee with Leeds United, but was soon loaned out to Bournemouth. The loan eventually became permanent and he went on to play nearly 100 times for Bournemouth, scoring 36 goals.

Soon after he was sold to Stockport County for £45,000. He made over 30 appearances for them, scoring 15 goals even though Stockport were relegated, and was sold to Luton Town for £150,000.[1] Feeney did not have a great start to his Luton career, scoring only 6 goals in 30 starts and 18 substitute appearances in the 2005-2006 season. He has been commended for his work rate, but often lets himself down in front of goal.

On March 22, 2007, Warren joined Cardiff City on loan from Luton Town for the remainder of the 2006/2007 season. At the end of the year Warren agreed a three year deal to join Cardiff on permanent term from the start of next season. Feeney has so far failed to find the net in a competitive game for Cardiff since arriving at the club, his only goal so far coming in a pre-season friendly against Dutch side FC Twente.[2] His failure to find the net for Cardiff saw him loaned out on the August 21, 2007 for four months to Swansea City[3], with a view to a permanent deal. He scored his first goal for Swansea on 2 October 2007 in a 2-1 win over Swindon Town and began to establish himself in the side but on 15 December, while playing for Swansea, in a match against Southend United he sustained an ankle injury after a heavy tackle by Lewis Hunt. He is expected to be out for up to eight weeks which ended his opportunity of a permanent switch to Swansea, who had already held talks with Cardiff about a permanent deal.[4]

On 15 January Swansea manager Roberto Martinez put an end to the transfer speculation by stating that "it is going to be very, very difficult to agree something over Warren" meaning that he will not be moving to them in January but Martinez also mentioned that a summer move would not be out of the question.[5] He returned from the injury on 12 March 2008, coming on as a 90th minute substitute for Paul Parry during a 1-0 win over Hull City but suffered another injury two weeks later during a 0-0 with West Bromwich Albion which ended his season.

[edit] International career

Feeney is a Northern Ireland international. He scored his first international goal against Azerbaijan in September 2005, also netting in a friendly against Portugal. His third goal came against Denmark in the Euro 2008 Qualifier, heading an equaliser in the 61st minute.

He has also represented his country at under-21 level.[6]

[edit] Trivia

Feeney comes from a particularly notable footballing family:

  • His father Warren Snr played once for Northern Ireland, against Israel in 1976
  • His grandfather Jimmy played twice for Northern Ireland, against England in 1947 and against Scotland in 1950[7]
  • Stephen Feeney, his uncle, played Irish League football
  • His cousin Lee Feeney currently plays for Newry City, having previously played for Rangers and Shamrock Rovers where he made 11 appearances scoring once on his debut in 2005.
  • His cousin (and Lee Feeney's brother) Cullen Feeney also plays for Newry City having also previously played for Linfield
  • All members of the clan have played for Belfast team Linfield at various levels
  • Harry Kewell was best man at his wedding

[edit] Club stats

As of 18 May 2008

Club Performance
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Other Total
App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals
Bournemouth (loan) 2000-01 10 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 4
Bournemouth 2001-02 37 13 2 0 1 0 0 0 40 13
2002-03 21 7 0 0 5 0 0 0 26 7
2003-04 40 12 3 0 1 0 0 0 44 12
Subtotal 108 36 5 0 7 0 0 0 120 36
Stockport County 2004-05 31 15 2 2 0 0 0 0 33 17
Luton Town 2004-05 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
2005-06 42 6 1 0 2 1 0 0 45 7
2006-07 29 2 1 1 2 1 0 0 32 4
Subtotal 216 59 9 3 11 2 0 0 236 64
Cardiff City 2006-07 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
2007-08 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 0
Swansea City (loan) 2007-08 10 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 12 6
Total 237 64 11 4 12 2 0 0 260 70

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Luton complete signing of Feeney" BBC Sport Retrieved on 4 November 2007
  2. ^ "Manager Jones calms Fowler fears" BBC Sport Retrieved on 4 November 2007
  3. ^ "Swansea sign Feeney and Orlandi" BBC Sport Retrieved on 4 November 2007
  4. ^ "Rival clubs wait on Feeney injury BBC Sport Retrieved on 17 December 2007
  5. ^ "Swansea call off Feeney pursuit" BBC Sport Retrieved on 15 January 2008
  6. ^ "Cummings ban confirmed" BBC Sport Retrieved on 4 November 2007
  7. ^ "Feeney's debut maintains family tradition" The Independent Retrieved on 12 April 2008

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