Eamonn Dolan

Eamonn Dolan

Personal information
Full name	Eamonn John Dolan
Date of birth	(1967-09-20) 20 September 1967
Place of birth	Galway, Ireland
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Reading (Academy manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1990	West Ham United	15	(3)
1989	→ Bristol City (loan)	3	(0)
1990–1991	Birmingham City	12	(1)
1991–1993	Exeter City	26	(4)
International career
1986–1989	Republic of Ireland U21	5	(1)
Managerial career
2002	Exeter City (caretaker)
2003–2004	Exeter City
2013	Reading (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eamonn Dolan (born 20 September 1967 in Galway) is an Irish ex-professional footballer, now working as a coach at Reading.

Career

Dolan and his twin brother Pat Dolan were capped at Under-21 and youth level for Republic of Ireland national football team. He scored 10 goals in his first seven youth internationals. They both played at the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship. Both had made their Irish international début at Republic of Ireland national under-17 football team level against Northern Ireland in the first ever fixture between the two nations at Seaview in a 6–1 friendly win in January 1985. Dolan scored a hat trick.

Dolan played as a striker, beginning his professional career with West Ham United, before moving on to Birmingham City and then Exeter City. Dolan joined Exeter in 1991, and this marked the beginning of a 13-year association with the club, although he only managed 26 league appearances for the club as his career was cut short in 1993 when he developed cancer. His testimonial was in September 1994 in a game between Exeter and West Ham.

He survived the condition, and continued to serve the "Grecians" as football in the community officer, youth coach, caretaker manager, and finally full-time manager, taking over after the club's relegation from the Football League in 2003. His first season in charge was fairly successful, steadying the ship after a difficult year, and almost qualifying for the playoffs, but he left the club in September 2004 to join Reading as academy manager, a position he holds to this day.

External links

• Eamonn Dolan management career statistics at Soccerbase