Eunan O'Kane

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Eunan O'Kane
Personal information
Full name Eunan Charles O'Kane[1]
Date of birth (1990-07-10) 10 July 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Derry, Northern Ireland
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Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Bournemouth
Number 32
Youth career
-2007 Maiden City Soccer Academy[2]
2007–2009 Everton
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2010 Coleraine 13 (4)
2010–2012 Torquay United 106 (13)
2012– Bournemouth 85 (2)
International career
2006 Northern Ireland U16 2 (0)
2006–2007 Northern Ireland U17 7 (0)
2008 Northern Ireland U19 7 (1)
2011 Northern Ireland U20 1 (0)
2008–2010 Northern Ireland U21 4 (1)
2012 Republic of Ireland U21 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:59, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Eunan Charles O'Kane (born 10 July 1990) is an Irish footballer who plays for Bournemouth in the Premier League.

Career

A midfielder, O'Kane spent two years with Everton as a youth team player before joining Coleraine in September 2009.[3] At Coleraine, O'Kane scored on his professional league debut in a 3–2 loss against Glenavon and in his 10th appearance, O'Kane scored a double in a 3–0 win over Glenavon.

Torquay United

He extended his contract with the club in December[4] before spending time on trial with Torquay United at the turn of the year. It proved to be successful, and he subsequently signed a contract with the club until June 2010.[5] He made his debut for the club in a 1–1 draw against Chesterfield and scored his first goal in a 3–1 win over Darlington on 6 March 2010. In his second half of the season at Torquay, O'Kane made a good impression, resulting the club rewarding O'Kane and Chris Robertson a two-year deal.[6]

The following season, O'Kane continued to make an impression for the club as he scored six time and continued to set up goal 6 times this season against Crewe (scored again later on this season), Stockport County, Rotherham United, Hereford United and Northampton Town. O'Kane scored his first FA Cup goal in third round and the only goal in a 1–0 win over Carlisle United. Also in the season, Torquay reached 7th place, resulting to participate the Play-off to get promoted to League One. In the semi final of the play-off, O'Kane scored the second goal in the goal with a 2–0 win over Shrewsbury Town which Torquay win in the second leg to progress to the final against Stevenage, who dominated against Accrington Stanley. But lost to Stevenage following the only goal in the game from John Mousinho, preventing Torquay to get promoted to League One and in the first half of the season, O'Kane signed a new contract extension, keeping him until 2014.[7] Through the season, O'Kane continued to make an impression for the club as he scored 5 (against Macclesfield Town, Wimbledon, twice against Plymouth Argyle and Aldershot Town) and continued to set up goal 9 times.

Towards the end of the season, he was among 3 Torquay player (Bobby Olejnik, Kevin Nicholson and Lee Mansell) named in the PFA Team of the Year of League Two and it was the first time he received an honour.[8] Once again, Torquay United reach 5th place, resulting to participate the play-offs and played their first game against Cheltenham Town but Torquay lost in both leg.

After the end of 2011/12 season, O'Kane was linked with Newly promoted League One side Swindon Town.[9] Crawley Town was interested signing him after the club made an offer for him about £175,000 and the offer was accepted by the club.[10] However, O'Kane rejected the move to Crawley Town after talks with negotiations had stalled.[11] After a move to Bournemouth, O'Kane made an explanation rejecting Crawley Town, claiming the move wasn't for him.[12]

Bournemouth

In mid-July, the club accepted a bid from an unknown club in the League One side,[13] which later turns out to be Bournemouth. The move was officially made on 26 July 2012.[12] O'Kane made his debut for the club in a 1–1 draw against Portsmouth on the opening game of the season. His first goal for the Cherries came in an FA Cup game against Carlisle United in a 3–1 win.[14] Twenty-eight later, Kane scored his first league goal, in a 3–0 win over Crawley Town.[15] Then just a few days after scoring his first league goal, Kane scored again in an FA Cup game against Wigan, in a 1–1 draw, which results playing again.[16]

In a 3–1 loss against Walsall on 19 January 2013, O'Kane penalised for handball after picking the ball up because he thought a free-kick had been awarded, which led to a penalty and ended the club's 15-game unbeaten run in League One.[17] After the match, O'Kane made apology on his Twitter account, which Manager Eddie Howe has since forgiven him and commenting the incident, believing it's should not be a penalty; instead, a free-kick.[18] Though the incident, Walsall's assistant manager Richard O'Kelly believes that O'Kane should be short-listed for the FIFA fair play award. O'Kelly would also went on to praise O'Kane for his honesty and sportsmanship.[19] Later in the season, O'Kane would play an important role to help the club promoted to the Championship following a 3–1 win over Carlisle United on 20 April 2013, but finished second place following Doncaster Rovers 1–0 victory over promotion-chaser Brentford.[20]

On 11 March 2014, O'Kane signed a new three-and-a-half year deal with the Cherries.[21]

Style of play

His good performance made him fan favourite from supporters, especially manager Martin Ling who reminds O'Kane 'a player from himself' and 'never shy away from wanting the ball, even after he's made a mistake'.[22]

International career

After representing Northern Ireland at underage levels, O'Kane decided to switch allegiance to the Republic of Ireland in October 2011.[23] O'Kane received his first call-up to the Republic of Ireland squad in May 2012 for a European U21 Championship qualifier against Italy.[24] He was called up to the senior Republic of Ireland squad in August 2015 for the first time with manager Martin O'Neill including him in a 37-man preliminary squad to face Gibraltar and Georgia in Euro 2016 qualifiers.[25]

Honours

Bournemouth

Career statistics

As of 5 May 2015[26]
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Torquay United 2009–10[27] League Two 16 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 1
2010–11[28] League Two 45 6 4 1 1 0 5 1 55 8
2011–12[29] League Two 45 5 2 0 1 0 3 0 51 5
Total 106 12 6 1 2 0 8 1 122 14
Bournemouth 2012–13[30] League One 37 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 41 3
2013–14[31] Championship 37 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 40 2
2014–15[32] Championship 11 0 2 0 4 1 0 0 17 1
Total 85 2 8 2 5 2 0 0 98 6
Career total 191 14 14 3 7 2 8 1 220 20

References

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  5. ↑ Torquay Move For O'Kane BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
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  23. ↑ Eunan O’Kane waiting on international clearance Greenscene. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
  24. ↑ Noel King names Ireland u21 squad to face Denmark and Italy Greenscene. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  25. ↑ O’Neill names provisional squad for Gibraltar & Georgia FAI. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
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