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Derek Pender Personal information Full name Derek Pender Date of birth 2 October 1984 Place of birth Dublin, Ireland Height 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) Playing position Defender Club information Current club St Patrick's Athletic Number 2 Youth career Belvedere Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 2003-2004 Shelbourne ? (?) 2005-2006 Dublin City ? (?) 2006-2007 Shamrock Rovers 26 (1) 2008-2009 Bray Wanderers ? (?) 2010- St Patrick's Athletic 28 (1) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Derek Pender (born 2 October 1984 in Dublin) is an Irish footballer, whose current club is St Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland.
Pender began his senior career at Shelbourne in 2003 after impressing at schoolboy level with Belvedere and for Republic of Ireland at under age level. Pender made sporadic appearances for Shelbourne, namely in the League of Ireland Cup and FAI Cup competitions. Pender departed Shelbourne in 2004 to join League of Ireland First Division side Dublin City. Pender became a regular in the Vikings first team and a successful 2005 season was capped off with promotion to the Premier Division, after a tense play-off victory over Shamrock Rovers. Mid-way through the 2006 Premier Division season, Dublin City ceased to exist leaving Pender a free agent.
Pender would soon return to the First Division by joining Shamrock Rovers and he played an important role in Rovers' First Division winning team that season. He made his debut at a deserted Gortakeegan on the 1st of September [1]. In his two seasons at Rovers Derek made a total of 28 appearances scoring once.
Signed for Bray in December 2007 [2]. Derek Signed for St.Patrick's Athletic for the 2010 season on the 22nd December 2009 [3]. He turned in some excellent performances for the Supersaints and signed a new contract to keep him at the club for the 2011 season [4]. Pender scored his first goal for St.Pats in a 3-0 win over Galway United in the opening game of the 2011 Airtricity League season [5].
St Patrick's Athletic F.C. – current squad 1 Rogers · 2 Pender · 3 Bermingham · 4 Kenna · 5 E. McMillan · 6 McFaul · 7 Kavanagh · 8 Bradley · 9 North · 10 D. McMillan · 11 Doyle · 12 Shortall · 14 O'Connor · 15 Stewart · 16 Harney · 17 Mulcahy · 18 Crowley · 19 Carroll · 20 Bennion · 21 Guthrie · 22 Murphy · 24 Daly · 39 Coughlan · Manager: Mahon
Categories:- 1984 births
- Living people
- People from County Dublin
- Republic of Ireland association footballers
- Dublin City F.C. players
- Shamrock Rovers F.C. players
- Shelbourne F.C. players
- Bray Wanderers A.F.C. players
- League of Ireland players
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