Desmond Baker
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Desmond Baker | ||
| Date of birth | 25 August 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Dublin, Republic of Ireland | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder, Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Edenderry Town (Manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1994–1996 | Manchester United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1996–2004 | Shelbourne | 156 | (27) |
| 2003 | → University College Dublin (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2004–2007 | Longford Town | 106 | (19) |
| 2008–2010 | Shamrock Rovers | 59 | (11) |
| 2008 | → Dundalk (loan) | 10 | (2) |
| 2010– | Edenderry Town | ||
| National team | |||
| 1997 | Republic of Ireland B | 1 | (0) |
| 1997–1999 | Republic of Ireland U21 | 3 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Desmond "Dessie" Baker (born 25 August 1977 in Dublin) is an Irish footballer currently playing for Leinster Senior League side Edenderry Town. He has three children.
From Tallaght Baker was a graduate of Dublin youth clubs Marks Celtic and Stella Maris, before spending his late teens as a trainee at Manchester United. Baker enjoyed a fruitful career at youth level, winning the FA Youth Cup and Youth League with Manchester United and numerous schoolboy international caps for Republic of Ireland. Baker played for the Republic of Ireland national under-19 football team in the 1996 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship finals in Luxembourg and scored against Italy [2]. Although he was named the FAI Youth Player of the Year in 1995 he failed to earn a professional contract at Old Trafford, however, and after a brief detour to Oldham returned to Ireland in the summer of 1996, having been offered a contract by League of Ireland club, Shelbourne.
He made his League of Ireland debut at UCD on 15 December 1995 and would remain a fixture in the Shels line-up for the remainder of the decade, but rose to wider prominence as a member of Brian Kerr's Republic of Ireland squad which placed third at the 1997 FIFA Under-20 World Cup. Baker famously headed the opening goal of Ireland's 2–1 victory over Ghana in the third/fourth place play-off after less than a minute of play had elapsed [3].
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