Delroy Facey
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| Delroy Facey | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Delroy Michael Facey | |
| Date of birth | 22 April 1980 | |
| Place of birth | Huddersfield, England | |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Notts County | |
| Number | 22 | |
| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1996–2002 2002–2004 2002 2003 2004 2004–2005 2005 2005 2005–2006 2006–2007 2007–2008 2008 2008– |
Huddersfield Town Bolton Wanderers → Bradford City (loan) → Burnley (loan) West Bromwich Albion Hull City → Huddersfield Town (loan) Oldham Athletic Tranmere Rovers Rotherham United Gillingham → Wycombe Wanderers (loan) Notts County |
75 (15) 10 (2) 6 (1) 14 (5) 9 (0) 21 (4) 4 (0) 9 (0) 37 (8) 40 (10) 32 (3) 6 (1) 45 (9) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2009 | Grenada | 1 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Delroy Michael Facey[1] (born 22 April 1980 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England) is a British-Grenadian professional footballer, who plays for Notts County. He plays as a centre forward.
[edit] Football career
Facey began his career at Huddersfield Town, joining as an apprentice in April 1996 and turning professional in May 1997.[1] He went on to become a first team regular, playing over fifty league games and getting fifteen goals. Bolton Wanderers manager Sam Allardyce spotted his potential and signed him on a Bosman ruling free transfer in July 2002.
After playing him in ten matches in the Premiership for Bolton (scoring twice), Allardyce decided that the young centre-forward was not yet ready for first team football and so sent him out on loan to Bradford City and then Burnley during the 2002–03 season. Whilst on loan at these two clubs he exhibited his strength and speed, grabbing six goals and managing to score a hat-trick in a 3–1 home win for Burnley against Walsall.
This was not enough to convince Bolton to play Facey regularly, and so he moved to West Bromwich Albion in January 2004. Again he made only a limited impact, with only two league starts, and was released at the end of his short-term contract.[2] He then signed a twelve-month contract with Hull City.[3] Hull manager Peter Taylor chose to loan out the powerful striker back to his first club, Huddersfield. After a short and unspectacular spell at the Galpharm Stadium, he was transferred to Oldham Athletic.
Facey only secured a short-term deal to help try and boost Oldham's league position and so failed to secure a longer deal, preferring instead a summer transfer to Tranmere Rovers. In his first season at Prenton Park, Facey secured a first team slot and managed to find the scoresheet fairly regularly, scoring eight league goals.
Following his release from Prenton Park at the end of the 2005–06 season, Facey signed for League One club Rotherham United.[4] He added considerable force to his new club's attack, scoring eleven goals in 36 league appearances. He hit an excellent run of form in March 2007, scoring four goals in three matches.
On 20 June 2007, chairman Paul Scally confirmed that Facey had signed for Gillingham.[5] On 27 March 2008, Facey signed on loan for Wycombe Wanderers until the end of the season,[6] and was transfer listed on 5 June 2008.[7] Two months later his contract was terminated by mutual consent.[8] Later the same day he signed for Notts County of Football League Two.[9] He made his debut for County against Bradford City, a club where he played on loan, in their 2–1 defeat on the opening day of the 2008–09 season.[10]
In 2009, Facey received a call up to play for Grenada and train with them in preparation for the 2009 Gold Cup. He was in line to receive his first cap in a friendly against Panama, but after Grenada's pitch was found to be unsuitable the friendly was called off.[11] He was lated named in Grenada's squad for the Gold Cup and made his international debut June 28 in a friendly against Antigua and Barbuda.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Matthews, Tony (2005). The Who's Who of West Bromwich Albion. Breedon Books. pp. 78–79. ISBN 1-85983-474-4.
- ^ "Eight feel Baggies axe". BBC Sport. 2004-05-10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_bromwich_albion/3701993.stm. Retrieved on 2007-06-06.
- ^ "Tigers sign pair". BBC Sport. 2004-06-25. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/hull_city/3841325.stm. Retrieved on 2007-06-06.
- ^ "Rotherham snap up striker Facey". BBC Sport. 2006-07-04. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rotherham_utd/5144816.stm. Retrieved on 2007-06-06.
- ^ Official Gillingham website
- ^ "Wycombe bag striker Facey on loan". BBC Sport. 2008-03-27. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/wycombe_wanderers/7317031.stm. Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
- ^ "Gillingham trio on available list". BBC Sport. 2008-06-05. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gillingham/7440675.stm. Retrieved on 2008-06-05.
- ^ Gillingham website
- ^ Notts County website
- ^ "Bradford 2-1 Notts County". BBC Sport. 2008-08-09. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/7541104.stm. Retrieved on 2008-08-11.
- ^ Delroy the International?, Notts County FC 2009-06-17. Retrieved on 2009-06-20
[edit] External links
- Delroy Facey player profile at gillinghamfootballclub.com
- Delroy Facey player profile at hullcityafc.net
- Delroy Facey player profile at htafc.com
- Delroy Facey career stats at Soccerbase
- Profile at Yahoo! Sport
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