- Richard Pacquette
Football player infobox2
playername= Richard Pacquette
| height = height|ft=5|in=10
nickname = None
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1983|1|28
cityofbirth =Paddington
countryofbirth =England
currentclub =Maidenhead United
clubnumber =
position =Striker
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1999-2004 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004 2004 2004 2004-2005 2005 2005 2005-2006 2006 2006-2008 2008-
clubs = Queens Park Rangers → Stevenage Borough (loan) → Dagenham & Redbridge (loan) → Mansfield Town (loan) Milton Keynes Dons Brentford Farnborough Town Stevenage Borough St. Albans City Worthing Thurrock Havant & Waterlooville Maidenhead United
caps(goals) = 31 0(6) 07 0(2) 03 0(1) 05 0(1) 05 0(0) 01 0(0) 04 0(1) 01 0(0) 01 0(0) 30 (17) 52 (24)
pcupdate =June 30 ,2007
nationalyears = 2008-
nationalteam = Dominica
nationalcaps(goals) = 2 (1)
ntupdate =March 26 ,2008 Richard Pacquette (born
January 28 ,1983 inPaddington ,London ) is an English-born semi-professional football player who plays as astriker . He is currently on the books at Maidenhead United. Pacquette was born toDominican parents and is a Dominica international. [cite news
title = Pacquette sets sights on World Cup
url = http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/Pacquette-sets-sights-on-World.3736818.jp
publisher = The News (Portsmouth)
date =2008-01-02
accessdate = 2008-01-06] OnFebruary 6 ,2008 , he scored on his debut for Dominica against Barbados.Career
Pacquette's first professional club was Q.P.R. He began as a trialist in August 1999 and spent four years with the club before being released in 2004. During this time he also had loan spells at Stevenage Borough, Dagenham & Redbridge and Mansfield Town.
After being released by Q.P.R, he joined the new Milton Keynes Dons squad but failed to make an impact, starting only one game (but making seven appearances), before being released again.
Over the next year he had brief spells at Brentford, Farnborough, Stevenage (again) and St Albans before joining Worthing, where he enjoyed a reasonably prolific season scoring 17 goals, and spending most of February 2006 on loan with Thurrock in the Conference South.
Soon after this loan spell, Pacquette joined his current club Havant & Waterlooville. He scored 3 goals in the 2005/2006 season, and 15 goals in 2006/2007.
On
January 26 ,2008 , Pacquette scored for Havant & Waterlooville in their FA Cup Round 4 tie against Liverpool. The non-league club took the lead twice before losing 5-2.Pacquette is well known for his fighting spirit but has a poor discipline record.Fact|date=February 2008 For example, in his 8 appearances for Stevenage he was sent off twice, and statistics show that over the course of his career he has been booked on average once every five games.
On transfer deadline day
March 31 ,2008 Pacquette left Havant to join rival Blue Square South club Maidenhead United.Stats at www.soccerbase.com shows 79 appearances, 14 yellow cards and 3 red cards. This equals 4.64 games per card.
After his heroics for Havant, he earned a surprise call-up to the Dominican national team for the 2010 first round CONCACAF match against Barbados. Barbados went into the match as heavy favourites but surprising fell behind to Richard Pacquettes goal on his international debut. The match finished 1-1. He also played in the 1-0 defeat in the 2nd leg. His cousin is fellow Dominica international
Jefferson Louis , with whom he was paired with as Dominica's strikers in the 2nd leg. [cite news
title = Pacquette sets sights on World Cup
url = http://www.thenonleaguefootballpaper.com/article.asp?aid=2419&iid=60&sud=732
publisher = Sunday League World Cup Man
date =2008-02-03
accessdate = 2008-03-26]Career stats
Club
(Note: accurate as of season start 2007-2008)
International Goals
References
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