Rowan Liburd

Rowan Liburd
Personal information
Full name Rowan Liburd
Date of birth (1992-08-28) 28 August 1992
Place of birth Croydon, England
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
Stevenage
Number 9
Youth career
-2010 Chelsea
2010-2014 Thomas University
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2015 Billericay Town ? (16)
2014Thamesmead Town (loan) ? (?)
2015–2016 Reading 3 (0)
2016Wycombe Wanderers (loan) 10 (0)
2016– Stevenage 6 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:51, 10 August 2016 (UTC).


Rowan Liburd (born 28 August 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays for Stevenage as a forward.

Career

College

Liburd spent four years at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia on a football scholarship, where he won several awards including the Sun Conference Player of the Year.[2]

Club

Upon returning to the UK, Liburd signed for Isthmian League side Billericay Town.[3] In July 2015, Liburd signed a two-year contract with Championship side Reading after he had impressed in a 7-0 friendly win over Beaconsfield SYCOB during pre-season.[2][4]

Liburd made his debut, for Reading in their 2–0 Championship defeat away to Cardiff City on 7 November 2015, coming on as a 63rd minute substitute for Ola John.[5][6]

On 4 March 2016, Liburd joined Wycombe Wanderers on an initial one-month loan deal.[7] He made his debut for Wycombe against Newport County in Wycombe's 1-0 defeat on the 5th March 2015, almost scoring the equalizer. Liburd's loan was extended until the end of the season on 7 April.[8]

On 4 July 2016, Liburd joined Stevenage for an undisclosed fee.[9] He scored his first goals for Stevenage when he scored twice in an EFL Trophy tie against Southend United on 8 November 2016.[10]

Career statistics

As of match played 8 August 2015.[11]
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Reading 2015–16[12] Championship 30000000 30
Total 30000000 30
Wycombe Wanderers (loan) 2015–16[12] League Two 100000000 100
Total 100000000 100
Stevenage 2016–17[13] League Two 10001000 20
Total 10001000 20
Career total 140001000 150

References

  1. "Rowan Liburd". 11v11. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Royals sign young striker Liburd". http://www.readingfc.co.uk/. Reading FC. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  3. "Billericay tie up deal for striker Rowan Liburd". http://www.echo-news.co.uk/. Echo News. 29 July 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  4. "Reading: Striker Rowan Liburd signs development contract". http://www.bbc.co.uk/. BBC Sport. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  5. "Cardiff 2-0 Reading". http://www.readingfc.co.uk/. Reading F.C. 7 November 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  6. "Rowan Liburd: striker reflects on a Football League debut". http://www.player.readingfc.co.uk/. Reading FC. 7 November 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  7. "Striker Rowan Liburd signs on loan". wycombewanderers.co.uk. Wycombe Wanderers F.C. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  8. "Rowan remains for the run-in". wycombewanderers.co.uk. Wycombe Wanderers. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  9. "Liburd completes transfer to Stevenage". readingfc.co.uk. Reading F.C. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  10. "MATCH REPORT: STEVENAGE 4, SOUTHEND UNITED". stevenagefc.com. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  11. "R.Liburd". soccerway.com. Soccerway. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  12. 1 2 "Games played by Rowan Liburd in 2015/2016". soccerbase.com. Soccerbase. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  13. "Games played by Rowan Liburd in 2016/2017". soccerbase.com. Soccerbase. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/12/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.