Ryan Townsend
Ryan Townsend ( born September 2, 1985 in Manchester ) is a former Australian football player.
Career
Townsend was born in 1985 in Manchester, England, the son of former professional footballer George Townsend, spent his youth but in Perth, Australia, where he played for Kingsley Olympic, Sorrento FC and ECU Joondalup. In 2002, he moved to an offer of the English club Burnley FC for a three-year apprenticeship (English teaching ) in its youth academy. In the 2003 /04 season he made his professional debut for the Clarets when he came off the bench in an away game on 13 March 2004 at Coventry City for Dean West. Further deployments in professional team prevented inter alia, a shin injury that kept him between September 2004 and February 2005 from the game. A further commitment over the year 2005 failed because of the FIFA regulations, which provided training compensation for his three previous youth clubs in the amount of about 100,000 A $ for the case of a professional contract, a sum that Burnley was not willing to pay and also more English professional teams held by a commitment Townsend.
Following his participation in the World Youth Championship 2005 in the Netherlands, where he moved in the final group game for Aaron Downes in the team and the 1-1 draw against Japan achieved the Australian hit, he returned to Australia and trained at the A in the sequence - League team Perth Glory. At season's end the center-back received at Glory a short -term contract and came two appearances before he kept fit during the season break in Wanneroo City. In this period also fell several invitations to courses of the Australian Olympic team (U -23). For the 2006/07 season he signed with Perth a one-year contract, but came to the end of December only a short stint and broke up his contract after he was previously released for several weeks of trial. He was convinced by the Indonesian first division Persiba Balikpapan, for also played his compatriot Robert Gaspar, and spent the 2007 season in the Indonesia Super League.
In 2008 he returned to Australia and continued his career at Mandurah City in the Western Australia State League ( WASL ) away. In 2009, he finished behind David Micevski, another former player from Perth Glory, the second in the election to the WASL Player of the Year. After the meantime the captain ascended Townsend had an injury- embossed 2012 season, he not heard since 2013 in the squad.