Mark Brown (footballer)

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Mark Brown
Personal information
Full name	Mark Brown
Date of birth	February 28, 1981 (1981-02-28) (age 27)
Place of birth	Motherwell, Scotland
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Celtic
Number	21
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1997-2001 2001-2002 2002-2007 2007-	Rangers Motherwell Inverness CT Celtic	004 (0) 019 (0) 170 (0) 009 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 January, 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Mark Brown (born 28 February 1981) is a professional footballer currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Celtic.

Contents 1 Football career 1.1 Early career 1.2 Inverness 1.3 Celtic 2 Honours 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Football career

[edit] Early career

Brown, a goalkeeper, previously played for Rangers, where he made five first team appearances as a young player, before moving on to Motherwell. Brown made 20 appearances with Motherwell before the club's financial difficulties forced them into administration and was one of 20 players sacked by the club in order to lessen its wage bill.

[edit] Inverness

Brown earned a contract with Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the summer of 2002 after impressing then-manager Steve Paterson, and quickly became an indispensable member of the first team squad. Brown has also played international football for Scotland at Under-21 level.

After joining Caley Thistle Mark Brown's reputation as a talented goalkeeper grew, helped by his performances for the club in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the SPL. The highlights of his career include a Player of the Round award from Scottish Cup sponsors Tennent's in March 2003, after his performance in goal helped Caley Thistle to a quarter-final win against Celtic, and a call-up to the Scotland "B" squad, where he played part of the second half in a friendly against Austria in April 2005, And the first half against Turkey in March 2006. ^[1]

[edit] Celtic

With Brown's contract due to expire in the summer of 2007, Caley Thistle accepted an undisclosed 6 figure sum from Celtic for the goalkeeper's services in January, rather than risk him leaving on a free transfer at the end of the season.^[2] The player joins the ever expanding list of players to have crossed the Old Firm divide and play for both teams.

Brown is currently enjoying his position as number one between the sticks at Parkhead, due to the shoulder injury picked up by first choice 'keeper Artur Boruc, and has proved a more than able deputy for the Polish international so far, pulling off a superb stop from Spartak Moscow's Welliton in the dying minutes of Celtic's 1-1 draw in the away leg of the Champions League 3rd qualifying round. Brown will be hoping to hold down the number one spot at Celtic, but with the impending return of Boruc, hero of last years Champions League campaign, he will have his hands (and gloves) full.

[edit] Honours

• Scottish First Division: 2003-04
• Scottish Challenge Cup: 2003-04

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Mark Brown career stats at Soccerbase

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