Aiden McGeady biography
Scottish - Irish football player
Soccer player
Aiden McGeady (born April 4, 1986 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a professional football player for Celtic and represents the Republic of Ireland in international football, despite being born and brought up in .
Date
of birth April 4, 1986 (1986-04-04)
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Height
177cm
Playing position Winger
Career
Senior clubs
Years Club App (Goals)*
2004- Celtic 80 (14)
National
team
Republic of Ireland 10 (0)
enior club appearances and goals
counted
for the domestic league 12 April 2007
National team caps and goals correct
as
of 29 March 2007.
Junior career
Aiden McGeady was
tipped as a future football star since he was selected for the Under 11 Glasgow
Catholic Football School select team at nine. He was educated at primary level
at Our Lady of the Missions Primary school and at secondary level at the nearby
St Ninian's High School, in south Glasgow. For a short spell in his young teens,
McGeady played for amateur club Queen's Park, before the club allowed him to move
to the team he supported, Celtic.
McGeady went onto captain Glasgow Catholic Schools, and played alongside now Celtic teammate Mark Wilson. McGeady was tracked by many top teams in England and Scotland, with both Alex Ferguson and Liam Brady making personal pleas for the youngster to join Man United and Arsenal respectively. He has been described as the most coveted schoolboy footballer in the UK. He signed a lucrative boot deal with Adidas at the age of only sixteen.
Club
career
McGeady made his senior debut for Celtic in 2004 during a Scottish Premier
League match against Hearts, in which he scored.
Since then McGeady's career at Celtic has flourished particularly under their newest manager, Gordon Strachan, displaying a Man of the Match performances against Rangers. McGeady has worn the same squad number at Celtic since his début: 46.
International
career
As a young player, he represented the Scottish national team, up to
Under-15s level and played for the Scottish Schoolboys national team until he
joined Celtic. At that time the SFA policy, incompatible with the policy at Celtic
which does not allow such arrangements, a player had to be registered with a Schoolboys
team in order to represent Scotland Schoolboys.
Packie Bonner, who knew of his Irish lineage (McGeady's paternal grandfather was Irish), invited him to play for Irish schoolboys team, (who, unlike the SFA, do not insist on schoolboys actually playing for their school team). Since then he played for the Irish Under-15s, Under-16s, Under-17s, Under-19s, Under-21s, and, in 2004, made his full international début, against Jamaica in an end of season friendly.
His decision to opt for the Ireland instead of his country of birth, has been the subject of controversy in Scotland, and left many Scots disappointed with the player's choice of national team. McGeady himself explains it as loyalty to the team that picked him as a youngster. Many see him as a traitor to the nation he was born in. Many felt he had only decided to play for Ireland as they were doing well, and the nation of his birth were in poor situation. Yet many say he has the right to choose who he has the desire to play for. Many have accused the Irish football association of deliberately stealing Scottish football players for their side, with claim that the Scottish side has desserted them at a young age. There are sectarian tensions in Scotland, and many say the Republic of Ireland soccer association have no regard or concern for these issues, by encouraging Scottish players to play for another nation.
Awards
Since making his début, aged
18, McGeady has picked up the following awards:
December 2004 : SPL Player
of the Month
Season 2004/05 : Celtic Young Player of the Year
November
2005 : SPL Young Player of the Month
Season 2005/06 : SPL Championship winner
Season 2005/06 : Celtic Young Player of the Year
August 2006 : SPL Young
Player of the Month
September 2006 -: SPL Young Player of the Month
Soccer
player
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