Alan Sothern (born 28 July 1987) is an Irish field hockey player who plays as a forward for the Pembroke Wanderers.
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| Born |
28 July 1987 Shankill, Dublin, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Club information | |||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Pembroke Wanderers | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| –2010 | Pembroke Wanderers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Den Bosch | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2014 | Pembroke Wanderers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Racing Bruxelles | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | Pembroke Wanderers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Gantoise | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019–present | Pembroke Wanderers | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2018 | Ireland | 187 | (74) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 12 October 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
He competed for the Ireland men's national field hockey team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]
Club career edit
Alan Sothern won two Irish Hockey League titles with Pembroke Wanderers in 2009 and 2010,[2] before he went abroad to play for HC Den Bosch in the Netherlands.[3] He left Den Bosch after one season to return to Pembroke Wanderers.[4] He played for Racing Club de Bruxelles and Pembroke Wanderers again before joining La Gantoise in 2018.[5]
References edit
- ^ "Alan Sothern". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ "Get To Know The Green Machine". hockey.ie. Hockey Ireland. Archived from the original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ^ "HC Den Bosch vindt Ierse strafcornerspecialst". bd.nl (in Dutch). Brabants Dagblad. 29 August 2010. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
- ^ "Den Bosch: Sothern vertrekt, Brouwer tekent bij". hoofdklassehockey.nl (in Dutch). 19 June 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
- ^ "Sothern à la Gantoise". lalibre.be (in French). 1 July 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
External links edit
- Alan Sothern at the International Hockey Federation
- Alan Sothern at Olympics.com
- Alan Sothern at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Alan Sothern at Olympic.org (archived)
- Alan Sothern at Olympedia
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