Richie Foran
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Richard Foran | ||
| Date of birth | 16 June 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder/Winger/Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Inverness Caledonian Thistle (Manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Belvedere | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–1999 | St Patrick's Athletic | 0 | (0) |
| 1999–2001 | Shelbourne | 28 | (11) |
| 1999–2000 | → Home Farm (loan) | 24 | (7) |
| 2001–2004 | Carlisle United | 91 | (25) |
| 2004 | → Oxford United (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2004–2007 | Motherwell | 90 | (23) |
| 2007–2009 | Southend United | 21 | (1) |
| 2007–2008 | → Darlington (loan) | 12 | (3) |
| 2008–2009 | → Darlington (loan) | 9 | (3) |
| 2009–2016 | Inverness Caledonian Thistle | 168 | (38) |
| Total | 447 | (111) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2001–2002 | Republic of Ireland U21 | 6 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2016– | Inverness Caledonian Thistle | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24 October 2014. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 November 2014 |
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Richard Foran (born 16 June 1980) is an Irish football coach and retired footballer. He is the current manager of Inverness Caledonian Thistle, where he finished his playing career.
He has also played for St Patrick's Athletic, Shelbourne, Carlisle United, Oxford United, Motherwell, Southend United and Darlington.
Born in Dublin, Foran started his career in Ireland with St Patrick's Athletic but failed to make a first team appearance, before signing for fellow League of Ireland club Shelbourne in 2000. He finished his first season in the league by winning the PFAI Young Player of the Year award. Also during his debut season with Shelbourne, he scored home and away against Rosenborg in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League, and made his debut for the Republic of Ireland under-21 international team in Cyprus.
In 2001, manager Roddy Collins spent £120,000 to secure Foran's signature for Carlisle United, in England. While at Brunton Park he scored twenty-nine goals, with sixteen of them coming in the 2001–2002 season, helping Carlisle to a respectable mid-table finish – despite the club's recent history of battling to stay in The Football League. Over the next two seasons, Carlisle struggled and Foran found it difficult to score goals. He had a short loan spell at Oxford United during the 2003–2004 season, but at the end of the campaign, Carlisle United were relegated. During his time at Carlisle, he had a highly publicised 'fight' in the tunnel with Huddersfield Town's Steve Yates after a series of fouls committed by Foran in the first-half. Both were sent-off, Yates lost a front tooth and Foran picked up a five-match ban.
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