Maurice Ross

Maurice Alexander Ross ( born February 3, 1981 in Dundee) is a Scottish football player. Trained at the Glasgow Rangers full-back has worked in England, Norway and Turkey, playing in February 2010 at the Chinese club Beijing Guoan.

Sports career

Ross began his footballing career as a " trainee " at the Glasgow Rangers and came on February 27, 2000 against his hometown club FC Dundee with the score at 6-1 for his first short-term mission - the game ended with a 7-1 away win. He won with the second team of the " Gers " a year later the "Reserve League Championship and established itself in the following two seasons under coach Alex McLeish also in the" first team ". In 2003 he signed a new four-year contract; Two years later, however, the premature release him for a transfer was granted a free transfer, he moved to England for the second division club Sheffield Wednesday.

In Sheffield Ross denied but only two competitive games and two months later lent him his new club to the league rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers from. In January 2006 it the " Wolves " took even under contract, although the term was dated only at the end of the current season 2005/ 06. The next stop was in the 2006 /07 third division FC Millwall, for whom he stood in the first five games in the starting line was after poor performance but relegated to the substitutes' bench. Instead, " stranded " he in March 2007 at the Norwegian first division side Viking Stavanger, who first employed him on loan and later endowed with a new three-year contract. This fulfilled Ross not quite complete, and helped in February 2009 from the Turkish club Kocaelispor. There he missed the goal of the class conservation and left the club after the end of the season.

In October 2009, the now unsigned Ross asked the Scottish Aberdeen FC about keeping fit under the local manager Mark McGhee. This led directly later in a new contract, by the Ross short term until January 2010 at the " Dons " band. A contract extension beyond leaned from Ross; Instead, he moved in February 2010 to the Chinese masters Beijing Guoan.

Scottish national

During his successful time at Rangers Ross came between 2002 and 2003 under then- coach Berti Vogts to thirteen appearances for the Scottish national team. He made ​​his debut on 16 May 2002 against South Korea (1:4) and was part of the team, who was denied the subsequent qualification for Euro 2004 in Portugal. His last international game he played on 19 November 2003 play-off against the Netherlands, which ended with a clear 0:6 defeat.