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Wayne Cooney

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Wayne Cooney
Personal information
Date of birth (1968-03-23) 23 March 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth Birmingham, England
Position(s) Full back
Youth career
000?–1988 Norwich City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1992 Shamrock Rovers
1992–1994 Dundalk
1994–1995 Bohemians
International career
1984–1986 Republic of Ireland U19 ? (?)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Wayne Cooney (born 23 March 1968) is a former footballer who played in the League of Ireland during the 1990s.

Career

Born in Birmingham, Cooney started his career at Norwich City before returning to Dublin to sign for Noel King's Shamrock Rovers side in 1988. He made his debut on 4 September [1] and became a popular figure with the fans in his 4 years at Rovers. He made a total of 127 appearances scoring 6 times for the Hoops.

He then moved to Dundalk. After a couple of seasons at Oriel Park, he became Turlough O'Connor's first signing for Bohemians where he scored his debut for Bohs on 3 January 1994 in a 2-0 league win over Cobh Ramblers.[2] He made 4 appearances in European competition for Bohs, all of them in the 1995 Intertoto Cup.

Cooney earned caps for the Republic of Ireland national under-19 team.

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Bohemian FC match programme, Vol. 46, no. 5
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