Sean Scannell

Sean Scannell

Personal information
Full name	Sean Scannell
Date of birth	(1990-09-17) 17 September 1990
Place of birth	Croydon, London, England
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Striker/Winger
Team information
Current team	Huddersfield Town
Number	7
Youth career
1999–2002	Addiscombe Corinthians
2003–2007	Crystal Palace
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2007–2012	Crystal Palace	130	(12)
2012–	Huddersfield Town	13	(1)
International career
2006–2007	Republic of Ireland U17	10	(3)
2007	Republic of Ireland U18	2	(0)
2009	Republic of Ireland U19	3	(1)
2008–2012	Republic of Ireland U21	10	(0)
2008	Republic of Ireland B	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 December 2012

Sean Scannell (born 17 September 1990, in Croydon, London) is an English-born Irish association football player who currently plays for Huddersfield Town and the Republic of Ireland U21. He is primarily a striker but can also play on the right wing. On 22 June 2012, Huddersfield Town confirmed that they had signed Scannell, ending the player's spell at Crystal Palace, which had lasted 9 years.

Personal

Scannell is the brother of Eastleigh player Damian Scannell and as a youngster growing up played for Addiscombe Corinthians. He attended Ashburton Community School from 2002 to 2007.

Club career

Crystal Palace

First Team Breakthrough 2007-2009

He joined Palace at 14 and notched 23 goals for the academy during the 2006-07 season, graduating to the reserves before breaking into the first team in the 2007-08 season. Scannell made his debut for Crystal Palace 2-1 win at capital rivals QPR in December 2007, coming on as a substitute for Franck Songo'o. In his home debut against Sheffield Wednesday on 15 December, he again came on to replace Songo'o in the second half and scored a 90th minute winner, his first senior goal in a 2–1 victory for Crystal Palace. He finished that campaign having featured in 25 games, earning him a call up to the Republic of Ireland Under-17's squad due to his good form, and was named Palace’s Young Player of the Year award in 2008.

Following this, Scannell was offered a two and a half year professional contract with Palace, and in order to beat off interest from, among others, Manchester United, Manchester City, Everton and Blackburn Rovers, chairman Simon Jordan placed his value at £3million. Scannell signed the contract at the beginning of the new year, and celebrated by scoring Palace's second goal in a 3–0 victory at Molineux against Wolverhampton Wanderers the following weekend.

Young Player of the Year and Injury

Scannell is described as an exciting player with searing pace and is one of many talents to emerge from Palace's academy in the last few years. He has also won the Crystal Palace Young Player of the Year Award 2008.

At the end of the 2008–09 season, and still only 18 years old, Scannell was voted Championship Apprentice of the Year due to the outstanding potential he demonstrated throughout the season. He made steady progress over the following two campaigns, but missed the first half of the 2010-11 campaign because of a knee injury, that restricted him to 19 outings over the 2010-11 league campaigns although he did manage to score twice in both seasons.

2011-12 Season

The 2011-12 season was Sean's best season for the Eagles, with 27 starts and four goals illustrating Scannell's development, under new manager Dougie Freedman that he had promised when he made his debut. His form early in the season earned him a new four-and-a-half year contract with Palace in the September 2011. He was given the freedom to play down the middle or out wide drifting in and out of dangerous positions in the attacking line. Scannell was given a free role up front, and hit the ground running by scoring the equalising goal in Palaces game against Coventry City on 16 August 2011 where two goals in injury time would turn a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win. Having scored this first goal in August 2011 he then didn't score until much later in the season. Scannell finished the 2011-12 season having scored four times in 37 league outings with three goals and three assists all coming in the latter part of the season.

Huddersfield Town

It was reported on 22 June 2012 that newly promoted Huddersfield Town were poised to make Scannell the club's first signing of 2012 since winning promotion to the Championship via the League One Play-Offs. The reports stated that Scannell who was linked with the Terriers in January 2012, had agreed a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee and would move subject to a medical. Later that day, it was confirmed that Scannell had signed a three-year contract with the Terriers, making him Simon Grayson's first permanent signing for Huddersfield Town. Scannell was given the number 7 shirt by manager Simon Grayson on July 12, 2012 when the squad returned to training for the 2012-13 season. He made his league début in the 1-0 defeat by Cardiff City at the Cardiff City Stadium on August 17. On November 3, 2012, he scored his first goal for the club against Bristol City, which happened to be the winning goal in a match where Huddersfield won 1-0.

International career

Youth & B Level

Born in England and being of Irish and Jamaican heritage, Scannell is eligible to play international football for four national teams, though chose to represent Republic of Ireland at international level, who he qualifies for through his father, who is from County Armagh, which allows him choice between both Irish national sides under the Good Friday Agreement.He has so far represented then at Under-17, Under-18, Under-19, Under-21 and Ireland B level.

Scannell made his Republic of Ireland Under-21 début in a 1-1 draw with the Montenegro Under-21's in March 2008 at Terryland Park in Galway. In 2007 he was awarded the Young Player of the Year award by the Football Association of Ireland. Scannell was named man of the match in the under-21's 1-1 draw with the German Under-21 on 10 February 2009 at Turners Cross in Cork City. He has made 6 appearances for the Under-21 since 2009 as of 2012. On 30 July 2012 Scannell received his first call up to the squad since joining Huddersfield Town for U21's forthcoming UEFA 2013 European Championship qualifier against Turkey. He would play the final 10 minutes for the Irish in his 10th appearance.

Senior Team

His good form with Palace led to him being recognised by Republic of Ireland coach Giovanni Trapattoni, who called Scannell into his first 40-man squad and later into his final 28-man squad. Despite playing for various Republic of Ireland youth teams, he is yet to play for the national side's First XI.

Honours

Republic of Ireland

• Republic of Ireland Young Player of the Year: 2007

Crystal Palace F.C.

• Crystal Palace Young Player of the Year: 2008
• Crystal Palace VP Youth Player of the Year: 2008
• Championship Apprentice of the Year: 2009

Club statistics

Template:Football player statistics 1 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- | 2007–08 || rowspan="5" | Crystal Palace || rowspan="6" | Championship ||23||2||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||25||2 |- | 2008–09 ||25||2||1||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||27||3 |- | 2009–10 ||26||2||1||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||29||2 |- | 2010–11 ||19||2||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||19||2 |- | 2011–12 ||37||4||0||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||41||4 |- | 2012-13 || rowspan="1" | Huddersfield Town ||3||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0 |- Template:Football player statistics 3 133||12||3||0||7||0||colspan="2"|-||144||13 Template:Football player statistics 5 133||12||3||0||7||0||colspan="2"|-||144||13 Template:Football player statistics end

• NOTE: teams in Italics indicate loan period
• NOTE: Football League play-offs results included in Total

External links

• Sean Scannell player profile at cpfc.co.uk
• Sean Scannell at Soccerbase
• Sean Scannell News and Info at SeanScannell.com