Gary MacDonald (footballer)

Infobox Football biography
playername = Gary MacDonald


fullname = Gary MacDonald
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1979|10|25
countryofbirth = England
position = Defender
currentclub = Bognor Regis Town
clubnumber =
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 2000–2001
2001–2003
2002–2003
2003–2007
2007–2008 2008-
clubs = Havant & Waterlooville
Peterborough United
→Stevenage Borough (loan)
Woking
Ebbsfleet United Bognor Regis Town
caps(goals) = 000 (0)
017 (1)
008 (0)
124 (4)
007 (0)
pcupdate = 19:29, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Gary MacDonald (born 25 October 1979) is an English football defender who plays for Bognor Regis Town as a defender. He has made over 150 appearances in the Football League and the National Conference.

Career

MacDonald began his career with Portsmouth but made no first-team appearances and joined non-league club Havant & Waterlooville. He joined Football League One club Peterborough United in February 2001cite web| url=http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=24149|title=Gary MacDonald |work=Soccerbase|publisher=Racing Post|accessdate=2008-06-16] but struggled to break into the first-team, making 21 league and cup appearances in two years. He joined National Conference side Stevenage Borough on loan in November 2001cite news| url=http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?newsmode=FULL&nid=6965|title=Stevenage borrow Posh MacDonald|date=2002-11-07|publisher=Non League Daily|accessdate=2008-06-16] and made eleven appearances for the club during the remainder of the 2001–02 season. At the end of the season, he joined another National Conference side Woking, [cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/woking/3042004.stm| title=Woking snap up MacDonald|date=2003-07-03|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=2008-06-16] where he started 120 games in four years. He was signed by Ebbsfleet United in June 2007cite news | title = Fleet snap up defender MacDonald | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gravesend_and_northfleet/6729771.stm | publisher = BBC Sport | date = 2007-06-07 | accessdate = 2007-06-07] but suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in his first game for Ebbsfleet in August 2007,cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gravesend_and_northfleet/6943021.stm |title=Ebbsfleet suffer MacDonald blow|date=2007-08-12|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=2008-06-16] which ruled him out of the game for several months until he made his comeback in a Kent Senior Cup match in January 2008.cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gravesend_and_northfleet/7218023.stm|title=Fleet overcome neighbours in cup |date=2008-01-30|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=2008-06-16] MacDonald returned to the first-team in March 2008 and by the end of the 2007–08 season, had made eight appearances for Ebbsfleetcite web|url=http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=24149&seasonid=137|title=Games played by Gary MacDonald in 2007/2008|work=Soccerbase|publisher=Racing Post|accessdate=2008-06-16] and collected a winners medal when Ebbsfleet won the FA Trophy at Wembley Stadium in May 2008. [cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/7382167.stm| title=Ebbsfleet 1-0 Torquay |date=2008-05-15|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=2008-06-15]

Honours

*FA Trophy: 2008

References

External links

*soccerbase|id=24149|name=Gary MacDonald