Martin Rowlands
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Martin Charles Rowlands | |
| Date of birth | 8 February 1979 | |
| Place of birth | Hammersmith, England | |
| Height | 5' 9" | |
| Playing position | Midfielder | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Queens Park Rangers | |
| Number | 14 | |
| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1997-1998 1998-2003 2003- |
Farnborough Town Brentford Queens Park Rangers |
5 (7) 149 (20) 188 (33) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2004 | Republic of Ireland | 3 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Martin Charles Rowlands (born 8 February 1979 in Hammersmith, London) is an Irish professional footballer who plays for QPR. He formerly played for Brentford.
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[edit] Club career
Rowlands started his career at Farnborough Town in 1997 before moving to Brentford in August 1998 for a transfer fee of £45,000.[1] In five season with Brentford, he made 186 appearances in all competitions, scoring 23 goals.[1]
After suffering a broken leg, QPR manager Ian Holloway took a gamble on Rowlands and signed him on a free transfer from local rivals Brentford in the summer of 2003. This gamble paid off, as Rowlands scored 12 goals from midfield, helping his new side to promotion from the Second Division. That season, Rowlands also showed versatility, playing right back, right midfield, left midfield and centre midfield; excelling in all positions. He won both the supporters and players' player of the year competitions.
Since then, Rowlands has suffered many injuries and has never truly recaptured his outstanding form of 2003/04. However, in 2006/07 he managed to score 10 goals from midfield.
In 2007/08 he was selected captain, and was regularly among Rangers` best performers. He played 43 league games, scoring 6 goals, including a memorable brace in Rangers' 4-2 victory at Watford. He won both the Supporters' Player of the Year and the Ray Jones Players' Player of the Year award. As of August 2008 Rowlands was the longest-serving member of the QPR squad having spent 5 years at the club.
He is widely regarded as one of the best players outside the Premier League. [2]
[edit] International career
Following good displays with QPR, Rowlands was called up to the Republic of Ireland squad in the summer of 2004, playing two games. His good club form in season 2007/2008 and his subsequent player of the year awards with QPR led to Rowlands being included in Giovanni Trappatoni's first Republic of Ireland side.
[edit] Honours
Brentford
- Football League Division Three winner: 1998-99
- Football League Trophy runner-up: 2001
QPR
- Football League Division Two winner: 2003-2004
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Martin Rowlands". Soccerbase. Racing Post. http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=11186. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
- ^ Higgs, James (2008-03-28). "My Player of the Year" (in British English) (blog). The Daily Telegraph (London). http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/considerablyricherthanyou/march08/myplayeroftheyear.htm. Retrieved on 2008-04-03. "Martin Rowlands joined us from Brentford five seasons ago, and he's now the longest serving member of the squad after being found by Tommy lennard and scouted for a season before being recomended"
[edit] External links
- Martin Rowlands player profile at qpr.co.uk
- Martin Rowlands career stats at Soccerbase
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