David Cork (footballer, born 1959)
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 8 October 1959 | ||
Place of birth | Doncaster, England | ||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1975–1978 | Manchester United | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1978–1980 | Doncaster Rovers | 9 | (1) |
1981 | Sydney Olympic | 5 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
David Cork (born 8 October 1959) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder for Doncaster Rovers and Sydney Olympic in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Born in Doncaster, Cork began his football career as a 15-year-old with Manchester United. He started out in the club's Junior B team, and earned himself a professional contract when he turned 17 in October 1976. However, despite becoming a regular in the club's Junior A team in 1977–78, Cork was unable to break into the reserves or the first team and he was allowed to join his hometown club, Doncaster Rovers, in May 1978. He made just nine league appearances for the Doncaster first team in two years at Belle Vue, scoring one goal. In 1980, he moved to Australia to play for Sydney Olympic.
External links
- Profile Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine at redStat
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Doncaster
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Manchester United F.C. players
- Doncaster Rovers F.C. players
- Sydney Olympic FC players
- Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia
- National Soccer League (Australia) players
- English Football League players
- English football midfielder, 1950s birth stubs