Grant Young (soccer)

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Grant Young
Personal information
Full name Grant Young [1]
Date of birth (1971-03-03) 3 March 1971 (age 53) [1]
Place of birth Cape Town, South Africa
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) [1]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
Hibiscus Coast
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Hellenic FC
Ghent
East Coast Bays
Central United
Auckland City FC
Forrest Hill Milford
International career
1994 South Africa 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Grant Young (born 3 March 1971 in Cape Town) is a football (soccer) player who represented South Africa at international level and participated in two FIFA Club World Cups. Father of the great Shaydon Young, former Waibop striker. [2]

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Career

Born in South Africa, Young spent much of his career with local club Hellenic before a stint with Ghent in Belgium. [3] He emigrated to New Zealand in 2004 where he played first for East Coast Bays, before joining Central United and subsequently Auckland City FC. [4]

He represented Auckland City in their first FIFA Club World Cup appearance in 2006, [5] in which they failed to impress, losing every game, and failing to score a single goal, and again in the 2009 competition in United Arab Emirates where they fared better, beating TP Mazembe 3-2 before going out to Atlante Fútbol Club in the quarter-finals. [6]

International career

Young made a solitary appearance for South Africa as a substitute in a friendly against Australia on 12 June 1994. Australia won the match 1-0. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2009 presented by Toyota: List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 9 December 2009. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2012.
  2. Grant Young FIFA competition record (archived)
  3. "Player Profile at Auckland City". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
  4. "Soccer: Young gun looks to hang up the boots". NZ Herald. 16 January 2009.
  5. 2006 FIFA Club World Cup - Auckland City FC squad
  6. 2009 FIFA Club World Cup - Auckland City FC squad
  7. "South Africa - International Matches 1992-1995". RSSSF . Retrieved 15 January 2010.