Adam Docker (footballer)

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Adam Docker
Personal information
Full name Adam Luke Docker
Date of birth (1985-11-17) 17 November 1985 (age 38)
Place of birth Rochdale, England
Height 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
2000–2005 Bury
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005 Altrincham 0 (0)
2005–2007 Bangor City 10 (0)
2007 Chorley 0 (0)
2007–2008 Porthmadog 3 (0)
2010 Salford City 3 (0)
2010 FC United of Manchester [1] 1 (0)
2010 Chadderton 1 (1)
2010–2011 Ashton United 3 (0)
2012 Stranraer F.C.
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 March 2013

Adam Luke Docker (born 17 November 1985) is an English former footballer who is now a restaurateur. Born in England, Docker plays for the Pakistan national football team. In 2007, Docker was called up for Pakistan, [2] where he used the name of Adam Karim. [3]

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Club career

Born to a British Pakistani father and English mother, Karim began his professional football career with Bury, later joining Altrincham for a few months but then joined Bangor City in the 2005–06 season. He was released at the end of the 2006–07 season despite being a fairly impressive performer. He later joined Chorley, but in September 2007 linked up again with his former Bangor manager Clayton Blackmore when he joined Porthmadog. [4] At the same time, he was also playing for Rochdale club Asia F.C. [5]

Docker parted company with Porthmadog in 2008. In late 2009 he was playing for Canaries FC in the Lancashire Evening Post Sunday football league [6] and captained them to victory in the Asian Community Cup final held at Stamford Bridge. [7]

In February 2010, Docker joined Salford City [8] but after a short period asked to be released [9] and subsequently joined FC United of Manchester. [10] He played one match for the club, coming on as a substitute. He later joined Chadderton in November 2010, [11] scoring in the one and only match he played for the club. [12] Docker then joined Ashton United in November 2010., [13] playing 3 games in February 2011. [14]

International call-up

In October 2007, Docker was called up by Pakistan. [15] He was an unused substitute in a 2010 FIFA World Cup group play-off match against Iraq. [16]

Personal life

In July 2017 he married Russian TV presenter Olga Ushakova in Cyprus, who has daughters from a previous relationship in addition to two daughters she and Docker have together, born in 2018 and 2020. [17]

Docker runs a restaurant in Manchester. [18]

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  14. ↑ "1st Team Statistics". Ashton United FC. Archived from the original on 3 January 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
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