Steven Riches

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Steven Riches
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Riches in 2020
Personal information
Date of birth (1976-08-06) 6 August 1976 (age 47)
Place of birth Sydney, Australia
Position(s) Midfielder
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995–1996 Campbell Fighting Camels
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995 Manly Warringah Dolphins
1995–1996 Leyton Orient [1]
1996-1997 Northampton Town
1997 Raunds Town 4 (0)
1998 King's Lynn
1998 Blacktown City
2003-2011 Brookvale
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 May 2009

Steven Alexander Riches (born 6 August 1976) is an Australian soccer player. [2]

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Playing career

Steven Riches is a retired journeyman footballer who plied his trade on three continents.

Whilst still a teenager, under coach John Kosmina, Riches won the NSW Super League double (Premiers and Grand Final) [3] with the Manly Warringah Dolphins in 1995. [4]

Later in 1995 Riches moved to the USA playing for Campbell University of North Carolina in NCAA Division I, where he picked up Rookie-of-the-Year honours. [5] The Fighting Camels were NCAA play-off contenders [5] and won the ASUN Conference division title. [6]

In 1996, Riches then left for England where he had an extensive trial with West Ham (and later Crewe Alexandra) eventually staying in the capital and signing for Orient. The club giving him a contract on the recommendation of former England Youth Team coach John Cartwright. He made his debut at Rochdale two days after signing. [7]

In his home debut for Orient (against Swansea) Riches helped set up the Dave Hanson winner late into the game. English football writer and novelist, Brian Glanville noted the "dancing feet" of a slender 20-year-old Australian, in The Times newspaper. [8]

From 1997 to 1998 Riches moved to Northampton Town [9] and finished his English experience with Raunds Town then King's Lynn.

In 1999, he returned to Australia in what was a successful stint at Blacktown City [2] in the New South Wales Super League, then the top league for NSW. Playing well over 100 games he picked up 9 medals in a four-year stay including a second Premiers and Grand Final NSW Super League double in 2000 [3] (as he had done back in 1995 with Manly).

In 2003,  Riches then returned to Manly Warringah (MWFA) where his career first started. He signed for Brookvale F.C. on Sydney's Northern Beaches, one of Australia's biggest and strongest football regions. [10] The Brookvale team of the era, under coach Rocky Carlino, was described as a dynasty, in a period of unprecedented success. [11]

In an eight-year stay, until 2011,  Riches helped the team win a record six MWFA titles plus a NSW Champion-of-Champions crown. [12]

Personal life

In retirement from the game, Riches is an executive manager for a fitness company but remains a Peninsula football identity. [13]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Australian Player Database - RE". ozfootball.net. Retrieved 11 May 2009.
  3. 1 2 "New South Wales Champions" . Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "N.S.W. SOCCER FEDERATION SUPER LEAGUE MANLY WARRINGAH DOLPHINS CHAMPIONS 1995". Australian and British Soccer Weekly. No. 787. 20 August 1996. p. 24.
  5. 1 2 "Ex-Dolphins prove big hit in US". The Manly Daily. 31 October 1995. p. 20.
  6. ↑ ASUN Conference Men's Soccer Record Book (PDF). ASUN Conference. p. 15.
  7. ↑ "Steve Riches from Sydney to Brisbane…Road". Leyton Orient Winter Magazine 1996/1997. pp. 33–34.
  8. ↑ Glanville, Brian (4 October 1996). "Flexible friend holds the key to riches". The Times.
  9. ↑ "Losing start for Cobblers". Northampton Chronicle and Echo. 17 July 1997. p. 60.
  10. ↑ "DAVID MASON NAMED MWFA AND MUFC CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER". 7 June 2020.
  11. ↑ "Blues have still got it". The Manly Daily. 19 August 2004. pp. 18–19.
  12. ↑ "Brookvale FC History". 7 June 2020.
  13. ↑ "Bennett buzzing ahead of Back to Manly Day". Manly United Football Club. 7 June 2020.
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