Rory Fallon
Rory Michael Fallon ( born March 20, 1982 in Gisborne ) is a New Zealand soccer player with a British passport. Fallon plays since 1999 at several clubs in the play mode of the English Football League and scored 2009 for the New Zealand national team the decisive goal in the World Cup qualifiers. He currently plays for FC St. Johnstone in the Scottish Premier League.
Club career
Fallon, son of former New Zealand national coach Kevin Fallon, played in France in 1998 for a New Zealand U-16 selection when he and his teammate David Mulligan stood out a scout of Barnsley FC, and were brought into the youth academy of the club. In 1999 he received his first professional contract in April 2001 and gave his competitive debut in a 0-4 defeat against Preston North End, after he had recommended as top scorer in the reserve for it. His breakthrough in Barnsley he managed until the 2002/03 season, after the team was relegated in the previous season from the Football League Championship Football League One in the. In November 2003, he was for about 60,000 pounds of Swindon Town committed after he had received only short-term contracts at Barnsley due to financial problems of the club. In Swindon, he served initially mainly as a substitute, but still scored seven goals in 21 games, including a spectacular bicycle kick from the edge. He reached the ascent Swindon play -offs, but failed in the semi-finals on penalties to Brighton & Hove Albion.
The following season was disappointing for Fallon, continues to be dominated reserve player, he scored only three goals in 31 missions and was released in the meantime also for a month to the fourth division Yeovil Town. The season ended for him in April after he was banned for an assault several weeks. As with Sam Parkin a -budgetary striker was sold in the summer of 2005, was Fallon, whose strengths lie in heading ability and has, despite a size of 188 centimeters and a decent ball handling, from now in the starting lineup and scored to January 2006 twelve goals in 25 games. This goal rate was the league rivals and rise candidates Swansea City a transfer fee of 300,000 pounds worth, with whom he signed a contract for two and a half years late January. After a shaky start with his new club he was in the final stages of the season his form and met, among others in the play- off final for promotion against his former club Barnsley, where you ultimately defeated on penalties 3:4. In addition, he also scored a goal in a 2-1 victory in the final of the FAW Premier Cup 2006. According eight goals in 22 games at the start of the 2006/07 season, he moved again for £ 300,000 for second division club Plymouth Argyle, Plymouth at this time a Redkordtransfer.
In Plymouth, it was not until the 2008/09 season, before he was a regular in the starting lineup, but could also excel as a scorer since then only sporadically. In the 2009/10 season he missed with Plymouth as a table next to last in the league. In August 2011, Fallon played for one month at Yeovil Town before he signed a contract with FC Aberdeen.
National
Since Fallon after his move to England for English youth teams was used and he missed it after the regulation is valid until 2009 to apply to FIFA before completing 21 years of the release for the New Zealand national team, he could not for a long time nominated for New Zealand be. Only when the FIFA abolished the age limit for a change of the national team in June 2009, Fallon was able to start for New Zealand. He was, together with the former Scottish youth international Michael McGlinchey 9 September 2009 against Jordan made his international debut and contributed with a hit to the 3-1 win at. In October and November 2009, he was one of the two crucial World Cup qualifiers against Bahrain in each case in the squad and scored his headed goal in a 1-0 victory in the second leg before over 35,000 spectators at a record crowd for a football match in New Zealand for the first participation of New Zealand a world championship since 1982.