Grant Brebner
Brebner playing for Melbourne Victory
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Grant Ian Brebner | ||
| Date of birth | 6 December 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1994 | Hutchison Vale | ||
| 1994–1998 | Manchester United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998 | Manchester United | 0 | (0) |
| 1998 | → Cambridge United (loan) | 6 | (1) |
| 1998 | → Hibernian (loan) | 9 | (1) |
| 1998–1999 | Reading | 41 | (10) |
| 1999–2004 | Hibernian | 123 | (6) |
| 2000–2001 | → (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2004–2006 | Dundee United | 60 | (6) |
| 2006–2012 | Melbourne Victory | 120 | (6) |
| 2012 | Moreland Zebras | 9 | (0) |
| 2013 | Mazenod United | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| 1997–1999 | Scotland U21 | 17 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2012 | Moreland Zebras | ||
| 2013–2014 | Richmond SC | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 December 2012. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 06:38, 19 September 2009 (UTC) |
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Grant Ian Brebner (born 6 December 1977) is a Scottish football player-manager at Australian Victorian Premier League side Richmond SC. Born in Edinburgh, Brebner joined Manchester United as a 16-year-old in 1994. He was loaned out to Cambridge United and Hibernian before being sold to Reading for £300k in 1998. He then returned to Hibernian on a permanent basis, and made more than 100 appearances in a five-year stint there that included a loan spell with . In August 2004, he was transferred to Dundee United, before moving to Australia to play for Melbourne Victory.
On leaving school in 1994, Brebner signed for Manchester United as an apprentice, playing in the FA Youth Cup winning side of 1995 and turning professional soon after. FourFourTwo magazine hailed him as the latest big talent to be produced by Manchester United's youth system.
After four years in United's youth and reserve teams, Brebner was loaned to Cambridge United, where he scored his first senior goal while making six appearances. A further loan spell was spent back in Edinburgh at Hibernian, where Brebner suffered relegation at the end of the 1997–98 season.
Brebner was then transferred permanently to Reading at the start of the 1998–99 season. He was already 21 years old, but had never played a single first-team game for Manchester United. During his time at Reading, he scored 10 goals in 41 league games. He was also responsible for scoring the first ever goal at the Madejski Stadium, but he suffered from homesickness during his time at the club.
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