Richard Duffy
Richard Michael Duffy ( born August 30, 1985 in Swansea ) is a Welsh footballer. The 13 -fold Welsh international was from 2004 to 2009 five years at first division club FC Portsmouth under contract, spent much of his time but as Players out on loan at unterklassigen professional clubs, particularly at Coventry City. Since 2009, the defender is at Exeter City under contract.
Career
Richard Duffy, whose older brother Robert ( * 1982 ) is also a professional soccer player, came in 2001 as a trainee (German trainee) to Swansea City and was back in December of the same year at a 1:4 defeat in the FA Cup against Macclesfield Town at the age of 16 years and 99 days, his debut in the first team. A stress fracture of the back caused the premature end of the season to the 2002 /03 he received his first professional contract. Until his league debut in the fourth division Football League Third Division passed yet another year, his debut on 30 August 2003 against Mansfield Town he dropped two weeks later against Macclesfield follow his first goal in professional football. After just 18 league appearances for Swansea in the first round, reported higher class clubs of interest in full-back talent. The FC Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp could be the change in the winter transfer window about £ 300,000 cost, thus securing the long term services Duffys. At Portsmouth he was on the final day of the 2003/04 season his Premier League debut in a 1-1 draw, the first of only two mandatory wagers during his five years Portsmouth stay.
The following season he was initially awarded for the collection of match practice in the Football League Championship in September 2004 for two months at Burnley and from the end of January to end of the season at Coventry City, the first of four free loan stays in Coventry over the next three years. With its serenity and his positional play, he convinced at Coventry so that he was first invited at the end of the season by coach John Toshack for a training camp of the Welsh national team and Coventry manager Micky Adams successfully sought a re- rented for the entire 2005/ 06. His international debut for Wales gave Duffy, who had previously played for the U-21 National Team, on 17 August 2005 in a goalless friendly against Slovenia. In the following months he came to four international matches during the qualifying for the World Cup 2006, Wales had at that time already but no more chance of a successful qualification. At Coventry, he belonged to the tribe, meanwhile, forces and ended the season in the top third of the table.
Back in Portsmouth, it was enough just to use one in the League Cup in the early stages of the season, before he would repeat on loan changed from October 2006 for two months to Coventry and spent the second half in his youth club Swansea City in the Football League One. His situation at Portsmouth improved meanwhile also in the following season no. Without a chance in responding professional team followed in March 2008, in addition to his most recent international match ( 2-0 against Luxembourg ), his fourth Leihphase at Coventry, a muscle injury caused but after just two appearances for the Saisonaus. In the last year of his contract at Portsmouth he still did not matter, and in February 2009 he finally premature, transfer free transfer to FC Millwall was made possible. Despite twelve appearances for the London club, he received a new contract at end of season and joined after a successful trial in the third league rivals Exeter City. At Exeter he was in his first season and came to the permanent staff at all positions of the defensive line for use when he almost secured the league with the climber.