Richard Sadlier

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Richard Sadlier
Personal information
Full name Richard Thomas Sadlier
Date of birth (1979-01-14) 14 January 1979
Place of birth Dublin, Ireland
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position Striker
Youth career
Leicester Celtic
Belvedere
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1996–2004 Millwall 145 (34)
National team
2002 Republic of Ireland 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Richard 'Richie' Sadlier (born on 14 January 1979 in Dublin) is an Irish former professional footballer and former CEO of St Patrick's Athletic.[1] Since retirement from the professional game he has worked as a pundit with RTÉ Sport.[2]

Club career

He began his career at youth level with Leicester Celtic and Belvedere before joining Millwall F.C.. He was educated at St. Benildus College where he excelled on the sports fields.

Richard helped Millwall towards becoming 2000–01 Second Division Champions but was forced to watch from the stand as Millwall reached the 2004 FA Cup Final in his final season. A striker, Sadlier scored 34 goals in 103 starts for Millwall. In an interview with the BBC, Mark McGhee named Sadlier as potentially the best young centre forward he had ever worked with in his managerial career.[3] In 2003, Sadlier retired from the professional game due to a hip injury at the age of 24.[3]

International career

Sadlier represented his country at the 1997 UEFA European Under-18 Championship. He scored in the third-place playoff against Spain.

Sadlier's only cap at senior level came against Russia in a friendly at Lansdowne Road on 13 February 2002.[4] He was highly favoured to make Mick McCarthy's final 23-man Republic of Ireland squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, but had to withdraw with a hip injury which ultimately ended his football career prematurely.[3]

Board appointment

In 2007, Sadlier was appointed to the board of St Patrick's Athletic F.C..[5] He resigned from his post at St Patrick's at the end of the 2009 season.

Media career

In 2006, Sadlier was approached to write a column for the Sunday Independent after previously doing some punditry work with Setanta Sports, he also contributes regularly to Newstalk.

In 2008, Sadlier joined RTÉ's panel of pundits for its League of Ireland coverage, dominated by Monday Night Soccer.[6][7] He later contributed to RTÉ Sport's coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[8][9] He became a panellist on RTÉ Two's Premier Soccer Saturday, and covered the 2010–11 Premier League.[10] In 2012, Sadlier was a studio analyst as part of RTÉ Sport's coverage of UEFA Euro 2012, and also appeared on Craig Doyle Live on 11 June 2012. In June 2013, he was part of RTÉ Sport's coverage of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup alongside Ronnie Whelan and Kenny Cunningham. He was also part of RTÉ Sport's studio coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[11]

Personal life

Sadlier has spoken publicly of suffering from depression, particularly following the death of fellow professional Gary Speed.[12]

Honours

Millwall

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ Bielenberg, Kim (22 October 2011). "The top 10 waiting in the wings". Irish Independent. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 "Injury forces Sadlier to quit". BBC News. 4 September 2003.
  4. ↑ "Republic of Ireland 2 – 0 Russia". Soccerscene.ie. 13 February 2002. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  5. ↑ "Sadlier named on Saints board". RTÉ News. 19 June 2007.
  6. ↑ RTÉ News https://web.archive.org/20080518193930/http://www.rte.ie:80/sport/soccer/mns//. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ "Monday Night Soccer". RTÉ. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  8. ↑ Black, Fergus (2 June 2010). "RTÉ hopes Ossie and squad will spur fans to back home team". Irish Independent. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
  9. ↑ O'Malley, Carl (2 June 2010). "RTÉ roll out big guns for their 56 live games". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
  10. ↑ RTÉ News http://www.rte.ie/ten/listings/12320669_tv_Premier%20Soccer%20Saturday. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ↑ "Move over Dunphy… RTÉ adds new faces to World Cup coverage". The Score. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  12. ↑ http://www.the42.ie/richard-sadlier-i-never-dreamt-about-telling-anyone-in-the-dressing-room-290992-Nov2011/
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