Gavin Strachan
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gavin David Strachan | ||
| Date of birth | 23 December 1978 | ||
| Place of birth | Aberdeen, Scotland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Doncaster Rovers (assistant manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–2003 | Coventry City | 16 | (0) |
| 1999 | → Dundee (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2002 | → Motherwell (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2003 | Peterborough United | 2 | (0) |
| 2003 | Southend United | 7 | (0) |
| 2003–2007 | Hartlepool United | 78 | (7) |
| 2005 | → (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Peterborough United (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Peterborough United | 17 | (3) |
| 2008–2009 | Notts County | 25 | (1) |
| 2009–2010 | Corby Town | 13 | (2) |
| 2010–2011 | Hinckley United | 24 | (4) |
| 2011 | St Neots Town | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 195 | (17) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1998 | Scotland U21 | 8 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2011–2015 | Peterborough United (youth team coach) | ||
| 2015 | Ilkeston | ||
| 2015– | Doncaster Rovers (assistant manager) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:30, 30 January 2011 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 07:45, 7 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Gavin David Strachan (born 23 December 1978 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish former professional footballer, current coach and sports journalist. He is the son of manager and former player Gordon Strachan, and currently is assistant manager at Doncaster Rovers.
Spending most of his early years with Coventry City, Strachan has played for ten different senior clubs, and is a self-described journeyman. He was capped eight times for the Scotland national under-21 football team.
As part of a degree in sports journalism at Staffordshire University Strachan wrote a blog for BBC News 2008–2009.
Strachan began his football career at Coventry City where his father, Gordon Strachan, had taken over as player-manager in 1996. He was loaned out to Dundee in 1998, making nine appearances. Back at Coventry he played in sixteen league games, eleven of them as a substitute; he left soon after the senior Strachan stepped down as manager in late 2001. He scored once during his spell at Coventry; scoring a penalty against Preston North End in the League Cup.
In March 2003 Strachan joined Peterborough United, in a loan deal scheduled for the remainder of the season. He joined Southend on a free transfer shortly afterwards however, but was released by the club six weeks later, at the end of 2002/03. He then moved to Hartlepool United on a free transfer. He enjoyed more success here and managed to play regular first team football for three seasons, appearing in seventy-eight matches and scoring seven. During this, the most successful spell of his playing career, Strachan was pencilled into the Scotland international squad, but the call for his first full international cap never came.
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