Kieren Westwood

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Keiren Westwood
Personal information
Full name	Keiren Westwood
Date of birth	October 23, 1984 (1984-10-23) (age 23)
Place of birth	Manchester, England
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Carlisle United
Number	1
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2003–2004 2004 2004–	Manchester City → Oldham Athletic (loan) Carlisle United	000 (0) 000 (0) 131 (0)
National team
2008-	Ireland	0 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:16, 3 May 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Keiren Westwood (born October 23, 1984 in Manchester) is an English-born football player. He plays in goal for Carlisle United and is the clubs first choice goalkeeper. He qualifies to play for the Republic of Ireland national team by virtue of an Irish born father.

Contents 1 Club career 2 International career 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Club career

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Westwood started his career at Manchester City where he did not play a game and was released as they had David James and Nicky Weaver in front of Westwood. He then joined Carlisle United becoming the understudy to Matt Glennon. Although Westwood played in most cup games. In March 2005, when Glennon was injured, Westwood played a couple of Conference games before being replaced by the fit-again Glennon.

In the 2005-2006 season Glennon left Carlisle and they signed Anthony Williams as his replacement. It looked like Westwood would be the club's number two goalkeeper again, however, with a few below-par performances from Williams^[clarify], Westwood finally got his chance to secure the number one shirt which he did. He started 35 League Two games in their title season and continued to be the club's number one goalkeeper. At the end of the 2007-08 season in League One, Westwood was named in the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) team of the season. On June 1st 2008 he was linked with joining Newcastle United FC.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] International career

On 17 May 2008, Westwood was called up by the Republic of Ireland to attend their training camp in Portugal, after impressive displays^[clarify] against Leeds United in the League One playoffs. Three days later, he made his debut as a second half substitute in a practice match against Portuguese club, Lagos replacing Joe Murphy after 66 minutes.^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Kieren Westwood's career stats at Soccerbase
• Official Carlisle United profile

v • d • e Carlisle United F.C. – current squad 1 Westwood • 2 Raven • 3 Aranalde • 4 Bridge-Wilkinson • 5 Livesey • 6 Murphy • 7 Gall • 8 Lumsdon • 9 Graham • 10 Carlton • 11 Thirlwell • 12 Joyce • 13 Bradley • 14 Garner • 15 Arnison • 16 J. Smith • 18 Hackney • 19 Reid • 20 Howarth • 21 Horwood • 22 Campion • 23 Kirkup • 24 Vipond • 25 G. Smith • 26 Dobie • 27 Taylor • 28 Madine • Manager: Ward

Persondata
NAME	Westwood, Keiren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Football (soccer) player
DATE OF BIRTH	October 23, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH