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South African soccer player

Grant Young
Personal information
Full name Grant Young
Date of birth (1971-03-03) 3 March 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth Cape Town, South Africa
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team Hibiscus Coast
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Hellenic FC
Ghent
East Coast Bays
Central United
Auckland City FC
Forrest Hill Milford
International career
1994 South Africa 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Grant Young (born 3 March 1971 in Cape Town) is a football (soccer) player who represented South Africa at international level and participated in two FIFA Club World Cups. Father of the great Shaydon Young, former Waibop striker.

Career

Born in South Africa, Young spent much of his career with local club Hellenic before a stint with Ghent in Belgium. He emigrated to New Zealand in 2004 where he played first for East Coast Bays, before joining Central United and subsequently Auckland City FC.

He represented Auckland City in their first FIFA Club World Cup appearance in 2006, in which they failed to impress, losing every game, and failing to score a single goal, and again in the 2009 competition in United Arab Emirates where they fared better, beating TP Mazembe 3-2 before going out to Atlante Fútbol Club in the quarter-finals.

International career

Young made a solitary appearance for South Africa as a substitute in a friendly against Australia on 12 June 1994. Australia won the match 1-0.

References

  1. ^ "FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2009 presented by Toyota: List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 9 December 2009. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2012.
  2. Grant Young – FIFA competition record (archived)
  3. "Player Profile at Auckland City". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
  4. "Soccer: Young gun looks to hang up the boots". NZ Herald. 16 January 2009.
  5. 2006 FIFA Club World Cup - Auckland City FC squad
  6. 2009 FIFA Club World Cup - Auckland City FC squad
  7. "South Africa - International Matches 1992-1995". RSSSF. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
Auckland City FC – current squad
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