Roy Carroll
Carroll playing for Northern Ireland in 2012
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Roy Eric Carroll | ||
| Date of birth | 30 September 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Enniskillen, Northern Ireland | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Linfield | ||
| Number | 1 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Fivemiletown United | |||
| Ballinamallard United | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1997 | Hull City | 46 | (0) |
| 1997–2001 | Wigan Athletic | 138 | (0) |
| 2001–2005 | Manchester United | 46 | (0) |
| 2005–2007 | West Ham United | 31 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Rangers | 0 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | Derby County | 30 | (0) |
| 2009–2011 | Odense BK | 46 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | OFI Crete | 16 | (0) |
| 2012–2014 | Olympiacos | 19 | (0) |
| 2014–2016 | Notts County | 77 | (0) |
| 2016– | Linfield | 25 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1998–1999 | Northern Ireland U21 | 11 | (0) |
| 1997–2016 | Northern Ireland | 44 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2011 | Barnet (caretaker) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11:29, 23 January 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 03:35, 22 June 2016 (UTC) |
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Roy Eric Carroll (born 30 September 1977) is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for NIFL Premiership side Linfield. He is best known for his spells at Wigan Athletic, Manchester United (where he won a Premier League winners medal and the 2004 FA Cup) and Olympiacos (where he won the Greek Superleague and the 2012 Greek Cup). He has also represented Northern Ireland 44 times at full international level, gaining his first cap in 1997, aged 19.
Carroll has also had a one-game managerial career, leading Barnet to a 2–1 victory in the 2011 Herts Senior Cup final against Stevenage. Therefore, Carroll holds the unusual honour of having won a trophy in his only game as a manager.
Carroll was brought up in Tamlaght, County Fermanagh, and began his career with local sides Fivemiletown United and Ballinamallard United.
In November 2001, Carroll received a Red Cross Humanitarian Award for his kindness to a child with leukemia. In November 2006, he entered rehabilitation for alcohol-related addiction. 'Stress' was cited by the Carroll family.
Carroll joined Hull City in September 1995 as a trainee and went on to make 50 appearances for the club in all competitions but he was sold two seasons later to pay off Hull's mounting debts.
Carroll signed for Wigan Athletic in April 1997 for a then club-record £350,000. Despite this, he would have to wait seven months to make his first appearance in November 1997 when he replaced Lee Butler in a 2–1 defeat of Watford. He made 170 appearances in all competitions in four years. He played a key role in Wigan's unbeaten run of 26 league games in 1999–2000 and was voted the best goalkeeper in the second division by his fellow professionals, a feat made all the more remarkable by the fact he missed the last seven games of the season having had to undergo an emergency appendix operation. Despite speculation of a move to a Premier League club, Carroll remained at Wigan for the 2000–01 season, during which he went on to keep 13 clean sheets in 34 first-team games to help his team reach the play-offs for a second consecutive season.
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