Brendan Place

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Brendan Place
Personal information
Full name Brendan Anthony Place
Date of birth (1965-12-13) 13 December 1965 (age 58)
Place of birth Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
Home Farm Everton
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1983–1984 Home Farm Everton 12 (0)
1985–1986 Longford Town 22 (4)
1986–1989 Athlone Town 70 (8)
1989–1990 Gillingham 8 (0)
1996–1998 Home Farm Everton 28 (5)
1998–1999 Bohemians 6 (1)
1998 → Monaghan United (loan) 18 (3)
Shelbourne ? (?)
1999–2000 Home Farm Everton 16 (0)
2000–2001 Malahide United ? (?)
2001–2002 Monaghan United 22 (2)
Managerial career
2009–2010 Athlone Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:18, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Brendan Place (born 13 December 1965, in Dublin) is an Irish former professional football player and manager.

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Playing career

A central defender like his father, Brendan Place Sr., who himself was a prominent player on the League of Ireland scene, Brendan Jr. began his football career with the Dublin youth club Home Farm.

In 1983, he graduated to their senior team, which was playing at the top level of domestic football in Ireland at the time. He made his debut against Derry City at the Brandywell, in Derry's first game in the League of Ireland.

After drawing the attention of cross-channel scouts with his subsequent displays for Longford Town and Athlone Town, Place was signed by Damien Richardson for Gillingham on 21 October 1989. He made his debut two days later against Chesterfield, but a promising career with the English third division club was cut short when he suffered a serious neck injury, keeping him out of the game for six years. He eventually fully recovered and returned to his roots to play for Home Farm, playing at the time as Home Farm Everton. In his first season back, he was awarded the club's Player of the Season. In the 2000s, after spells with Bohemians, Shelbourne, Home Farm Fingal and as player manager for Malahide United, he concluded his playing career.

Place then returned to the top tier of Irish domestic football at 37 years of age with Monaghan United.

Managing career

As a coach, he has a comprehensive background, starting as development coach with the LOI/ FAI Soccer Academy in Dublin between 1999 and 2002. As a part of that time he coached the Republic of Ireland U17 that finished third in Japan in August 2004 and went on to work with the Republic of Ireland U19 that qualified for the elite Stage of the UEFA championship in Cyprus later that year. He also spent three years as high performance coach with the Elite Irish women's squad and had a spell as player-coach with Bohemians reserve squad.

Having brought non-League Malahide United to promotion as player manager, Place was then appointed development youth coach for Home Farm Schoolboys before becoming player coach at Loughshinny Utd in 2005, bringing his team to the final of the Gilligan Cup.

In 2008, he took over as manager [1] at Athlone Town. One of his first signings was his brother Stephen. [2]

Place left in 2010 [3] to concentrate on completing his UEFA pro licence. [4] He already held a UEFA A licence and completed a sports psychology diploma. Place coached Crumlin United schoolboys and after a successful treble winning season at U16 level returned to Home Farm as head coach of U17s team for the 2012–13 season. [5]

In 2013, Place was appointed head coach for Bohemians FC under 19s Eircom League.

A return to Eircom league followed for Place in 2015–16, with Tommy Dunne and newly promoted Galway United as opposition / match analysis scout.

In July 2016 Place was appointed U19s head coach at Hibernians FC .

Honours

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References

  1. ↑ "Place announced as new Athlone boss". Extratime.ie. Extratime.ie. 26 January 2009. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
  2. ↑ "Place adds his brother to Athlone Town squad".
  3. ↑ "Place agrees Athlone departure". Extratime.ie. Extratime.ie. 12 October 2010. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
  4. ↑ "A sense of Optimism about the Place". Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  5. ↑ "The Teams and their Managers :: Contact Numbers :: Home Farm Football Club :: Whitehall, Dublin, Ireland :: Tel: 00353 (0)1 857 1635". Archived from the original on 21 December 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2012..
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