Leon Braithwaite
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox football biography Leon Jerome Braithwaite (born 17 December 1972) is an English former footballer. He played for Exeter City, making a total of 66 Football League appearances.[1][2] He made appearances for Margate, scoring 38 goals. He joined Margate from Welling United in 2000 and had two spells with the club, leaving for the second time in 2005. Braithwaite's spell at St. Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland was notable for a number of key goals, including a winning goal against title rivals Cork City in Turner's Cross. Leon won two league of Ireland championship medals with St Patricks Athletics and represented the club in the champions league qualifier where he was influential in the 0–0 draw against Glasgow Celtic FC at Park's head in front of a full house of 60000 supporters only to lose the return leg 0:2 Leon got called up to the Trinidad and Tobago squad, yet did not make his debut due to injury
Personal life
He is the brother of athlete Darren Braithwaite.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Leon and his brother Darren coach talented Junior athletes in track and field mainly in the 100m & 200m sprints Like his brother Leon has represented GB Vets in athletics. Leon Has a MSc in sports psychology
Honours
- St. Patrick's Athletic - 1997/98, 1998/99
- 1 England non league cap vs USA
- League of Ireland league supporters player of the Month February 1998
- At the time, held the record for the fastest league hat-trick in Conference History for Margate FC vs Woking (17 mins). This was better however at Christmas 2006 by Crawley Town's Charles Adameno, who scored a hat-trick within the first eight minutes of the club's league match at Grays Athletic.
Notes
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Profile at Margate FC
- Pages with script errors
- English men's footballers
- English expatriate men's footballers
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Footballers from the London Borough of Hackney
- Margate F.C. players
- Enfield Town F.C. players
- Exeter City F.C. players
- Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. players
- Welling United F.C. players
- Fisher Athletic F.C. players
- St Patrick's Athletic F.C. players
- League of Ireland players
- English Football League players
- National League (English football) players
- Southern Football League players
- Bishop's Stortford F.C. players
- Leyton F.C. players
- Collier Row F.C. players
- Ilford F.C. players
- Erith & Belvedere F.C. players
- Great Wakering Rovers F.C. players
- Redbridge F.C. players
- Heybridge Swifts F.C. players
- Isthmian League players
- England men's semi-pro international footballers
- Expatriate men's association footballers in the Republic of Ireland
- English expatriate sportspeople in Ireland
- Men's association football forwards