Glen Salmon
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Glen George Salmon | ||
Date of birth | 24 December 1977 | ||
Place of birth |
Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Orlando Pirates (reserves manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
Chiltern Park | |||
Christian Brothers College | |||
Boksburg | |||
Alberton | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1997–1999 | Supersport United | 31 | (12) |
1999–2002 | NAC | 82 | (27) |
2002–2007 | Groningen | 118 | (25) |
2007 | NAC Breda | 15 | (8) |
2007–2008 | PAOK | 24 | (4) |
2008–2012 | Supersport United | 62 | (9) |
International career | |||
2000–2008 | South Africa | 3 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2019– | Orlando Pirates (reserves manager) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Glen George Salmon (born 24 December 1977)[1] is a retired South African football forward and current manager of Orlando Pirates' B-team.
Career
[edit]Salmon was born in the Rhodesian capital of Salisbury (now Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe) and grew up in South Africa.
Salmon's first professional team was Supersport United, where he scored one of the goals in the team's 2-1 win in the final of the 1999 Bob Save Superbowl.[2]
He spent almost one decade playing in Europe for NAC Breda and FC Groningen in the Dutch Eredivisie and PAOK in Greece.
Salmon made his international debut against Algeria on 2 February 2000 and has been capped three times in total.
Scored on debut for Kempton Park in a 7–2 win over Luso Africa Stars .
Coaching career
[edit]From the summer 2013 until the summer 2019, Salmon worked as an academy manager for Bidvest Wits. On 21 August 2019, he was appointed manager of Orlando Pirates' B-team.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Glen Salmon - NAC Breda Forward". ESPN. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
- ^ "South Africa 1998/99". www.rsssf.org. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
- ^ Pirates appoint new coach, kickoff.com, 21 August 2019
External links
[edit]- Glen Salmon at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1977 births
- Living people
- South African people of British descent
- White Rhodesian people
- South African men's soccer players
- Zimbabwean men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- SuperSport United F.C. players
- NAC Breda players
- FC Groningen players
- PAOK FC players
- Eredivisie players
- Super League Greece players
- South African expatriate men's soccer players
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
- South African expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
- South African expatriate sportspeople in Greece
- South Africa men's international soccer players
- 2000 African Cup of Nations players
- Footballers from Harare
- Zimbabwean emigrants to South Africa
- South African soccer biography stubs