Madden: Simon

2004-2008 (Player Details)

Right Back

Born: Dublin, Republic of Ireland: 01-05-1988

Debut: v Bury (h): 13-11-2007

5’ 11” 12st (2007)

Madden joined Leeds as a Trainee in 2004 and turned professional in 2006. He progressed through the junior ranks and became a regular in the Reserves in the 2007-08 season. He made his first team debut at right back in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Northen Area quarter-final at home to Bury. He was capped nine times for the Republic of Ireland Under-Nineteens. In April 2008 along with Gavin Rothery he had an unsuccessful trial with Cheltenham Town and days later he was released from his contract with United. He joined Shamrock Rovers and made his debut at St. Pats on the 21st July 2008. Madden earned his first cap with team mate Padraig Amond for the Republic of Ireland Under-Twenty-one team against Austria on the 19th August 2008, when he came on as a substitute after seventy-three minutes. This was quickly followed by his second cap in Bulgaria on 5th September 2008, but he was an unused substitute, his third cap came in Portugal four days later when he took the field in the seventy-ninth minute. He played twenty-six League games for Shamrock Rovers, two of which were as a substitute. He joined Darlington on 15th January 2010 and played fifteen games, including two from the bench, for them in the League before he was one of fourteen players sacked by the club after it was relegated from Division 2 at the end of the 2009-10 season.