Joe Riley (footballer, born 1991)
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Joseph Michael Riley | ||
Date of birth | 13 October 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Salford England | ||
Height | Script error: No such module "person height". | ||
Position(s) | Right back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Bury | ||
Number | 2 | ||
Youth career | |||
2001–2011 | Bolton Wanderers | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2011–2015 | Bolton Wanderers | 3 | (0) |
2014–2015 | → Oxford United (loan) | 22 | (0) |
2015– | Bury | 41 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:20, 28 January 2016 (UTC) |
Joseph Michael Riley (born 13 October 1991) is an English footballer who plays for Bury as a right back.
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Career
Bolton Wanderers
Born in Salford, Greater Manchester, Riley started his professional career at Bolton Wanderers since he was seven and attended Walkden High School.[1] A product of the youth system, Riley started regularly playing in the reserve side led Riley signing his first professional contract at the club.[2]
Riley made his competitive debut in the League Cup tie at home to Macclesfield Town on 24 August 2011.[3] Riley went on to make his Premier League debut at right-back in a 5–0 victory over Stoke City at the Reebok Stadium on 6 November 2011. He received a standing ovation by the Bolton fans when substituted late in the game.[4] After starting the next game against West Brom, Riley suffered a hamstring injury,[5] disrupting the start to his debut season. He returned in the FA Cup match against Macclesfield Town on 7 January 2012.[6]
On 23 February, both Riley and Michael O'Halloran signed new three-and-a-half-year contracts, committing them to the club until the summer of 2015.[7] Despite his determination to make a return to the first team,[8] Manager Dougie Freedman quoted on Riley: "Joe Riley needed to go out and play some games as well but we couldn’t quite find the right development team for him."[9] However, Riley spent most of the 2012–13 season because of the succession of injuries limited him to just two starts.[10][11]
Ahead of the 2013–14 season, Riley returned to the first team in the pre-season friendly and things got worse for him when he damaged his anterior cruciate ligament in a friendly against Skelmersdale, which kept him out for ten months, implied that he may miss the 2013–14 season.[12][13]
Oxford United (loan)
After ridding himself of the injuries that had stopped his progress over the last two years, Riley joined Oxford United on loan on 28 July 2014.[14]
Riley made his Oxford United debut, making his first start in a year, in the opening game of the season, as Oxford United lose 1–0 against Burton Albion.[15] After making 28 appearances in total (22 league) for Oxford, Riley returned to Bolton on 3 January 2015.[16] Upon his return to Bolton, Oxford United were keen to sign Riley on loan for the second time.[17]
Bury
With less than six months remaining on his Bolton contract, Wanderers manager Neil Lennon decided against offering Riley a new deal and accepted an offer from Bury.[18] On 14 January 2015, Riley completed a free transfer to Bury,[19] in a deal that included a sell-on clause in Bolton's favour.[20] Shortly after the move, Riley earned a sponsorship as a result of his move to Bury.[21]
However, Riley's debut was delayed over hamstring injury he sustained in training until he made his debut for the club, where he came on as a substitute for Kelvin Etuhu in second half, in a 1–0 loss against Accrington Stanley on 27 January 2015.[22] Riley, however, was sent-off in the 49th minutes after making a challenge on Tom Newey, in a 2-1 win over Northampton Town on 21 March 2015.[23] After serving three match ban,[24] Riley made his return, playing as right-back against Shrewsbury Town on 14 April 2015 and scored in a 1-0 win to confirm the club's qualification to the play-offs.[25] Eventually, Riley helped the club finished third place, therefore promoted to League One automatically. In his first half of the season at Bury, Riley made seventeen appearance and scoring once.
References
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External links
- EngvarB from May 2015
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- Pages using infobox football biography with height issues
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- Living people
- 1991 births
- English footballers
- Association football defenders
- Sportspeople from Salford, Greater Manchester
- Bolton Wanderers F.C. players
- Oxford United F.C. players
- Bury F.C. players
- The Football League players
- Premier League players