Personal information | |||
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Full name | Shwan Saman Jalal | ||
Date of birth | 14 August 1983 | ||
Place of birth | Baghdad, Iraq | ||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Wrexham | ||
Number | 1 | ||
Youth career | |||
1998–1999 | Gillingham | ||
1999 | Elphinstone Flyers | ||
1999–2000 | Hastings Town | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2000–2001 | Hastings Town | ||
2001–2004 | Tottenham Hotspur | 0 | (0) |
2002–2003 | → Woking (loan) | 16 | (0) |
2004–2007 | Woking | 85 | (0) |
2006 | → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2007–2008 | Peterborough United | 8 | (0) |
2008 | → Morecambe (loan) | 12 | (0) |
2008 | → Bournemouth (loan) | 2 | (0) |
2008–2014 | Bournemouth | 146 | (0) |
2013 | → Oxford United (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2014 | → Leyton Orient (loan) | 2 | (0) |
2014–2015 | Bury | 5 | (0) |
2015 | Northampton Town | 4 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Macclesfield Town | 37 | (0) |
2016– | Wrexham | 19 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2005–2006 | England C | 5 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 January 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15:42, 17 October 2010 (UTC) |
Shwan Saman Jalal (Kurdish: Şivan Saman Celal, born 14 August 1983) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Wrexham as a goalkeeper He played for the England C team from 2005 to 2006. Jalal was then invited to play for the Iraqi football team.
Jalal is a Kurd born in Baghdad, Iraq, Jalal grew up in Hastings, East Sussex England, while attending William Parker School. He began his career at Gillingham's youth system in 1998, before joining the youth system Hastings Town in 1999, breaking into the first team in 2000. At Hastings he had been featuring for the first team whilst still a teenager, gaining attention from Football League clubs such as Tottenham Hotspur whom he signed for in August 2001, before joining Woking in May 2004. He went on trial at Oldham Athletic in May 2005. He had a trial at Leeds United in September 2006, after which he joined Sheffield Wednesday on a month's loan in November, but failed to make any appearances during this spell.
He moved to Peterborough United in League Two for an undisclosed fee on 9 January 2007. He was placed on the club's transfer list at his own request in December, which was followed by a move to Morecambe on loan until the end of the 2007–08 season.