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Aiden McGeady
Full name	Aiden McGeady
Date of birth	April 4 1986 (1986-04-04) (age 22)
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position	Winger
Club information
Current club	Celtic
Number	46
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2004-	Celtic	100 (19)
National team²
2004–	Republic of Ireland	16 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 December 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 22:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Aiden McGeady (born April 4,1986 in Glasgow) is a professional football player who plays for Celtic and represents the Republic of Ireland at international level. He can play in a variety of attacking positions. For Celtic, he usually plays as an attacking midfielder/winger on the left hand side.

1 Junior career
2 Club career
3 International career
4 Honours
5 Awards
6 References
7 External links

Junior career

He was educated at primary level at Our Lady of the Missions Primary school and at secondary level at the nearby St Ninian's High School on the south side of Glasgow. For a short spell in his young teens, McGeady played for amateur club Queen's Park, before the club allowed him to move to the team he supported, Celtic. McGeady went onto captain Glasgow Catholic Schools, and played alongside now Celtic teammate Mark Wilson. He has been described as the most coveted schoolboy footballer in the UK.^[1] He signed a lucrative boot deal with Adidas at the age of only thirteen.^[2]

Club career

McGeady made his senior debut for Celtic in 2004 during a Scottish Premier League match against Hearts, in which he scored in a man of the match performance. Since then McGeady's career at Celtic has flourished particularly under their newest manager, Gordon Strachan, displaying a Man of the Match performance against Rangers on 23 September, 2006.^[3] McGeady has worn the same squad number at Celtic since his début: 46. His current boot sponsorship deal is with Puma.

International career

Packie Bonner, who knew of McGeady's Irish lineage (McGeady's paternal grandfather was Irish), invited him to play for the Irish Under 15s schoolboys team, and he has since gone on to be a full Republic of Ireland international. In interviews, McGeady and his father have stated he always intended to play for Ireland, due to the family's cultural heritage.

Honours

Awards

Since making his début, aged 18, McGeady has picked up the following awards:

December 2004 - SPL Player of the Month
Season 2004/05 - Celtic Young Player of the Year
November 2005 - SPL Young Player of the Month
Season 2005/06 - SPL Championship winner
Season 2005/06 - Celtic Young Player of the Year
August 2006 - SPL Young Player of the Month
September 2006 - SPL Young Player of the Month
October 2006 - Young Player of the Month
Season 2006/07 - Celtic Young Player of the Year
November 2007 - SPL Player of the Month

References

^ McGeady still glad he resisted Old Trafford overtures sport.scotsman.com, 26 July 2006. Retrieved 3 January 2007.
^ About a Bhoy Sunday Times, 26 November 2006. Retrieved 17 July 2007.
^ Celtic 2 Rangers 0: Strachan victorious in battle of rebuilding sport.independent.co.uk, 25 September 2006. Retrieved 8 May 2007.

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