Darryl Roach is an English-born Montserratian

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who has previously played as a

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for

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, and has been

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internationally for the

Montserrat national football team The Montserrat national football team represents the small Caribbean island of Montserrat in the CONCACAF football region. Football is the second most popular sport in Montserrat, after cricket. The team plays at the Blakes Estate Stadium, ...

Career

Club career

Roach played for

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's youth team, and

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in the 2003–04 season, before having a trial at

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in July 2004. Aldershot manager, Terry Brown commented on Roach's performance in a friendly against

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; "I think Darryl did well, to be fair the boy's hardly trained and we've come in and put him into two games. He's got talent and you can see that but he doesn't look anywhere near as fit as he should be but that's understandable." In January 2005, he went on to spend time at

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on trial, playing for their reserve team. Roach then joined

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club

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in February 2005, before later moving onto

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in March 2005. Roach went on to join the Australian club

in 2011, where he won the club's player of the season in 2013 In 2015, Roach joined State League 3 North-West side Williamstown SC, alongside his Montserrat teammate

Jay'lee Hodgson Jaylee Hodgson (born 5 June 1980 in Nottingham) is an English-born Montserratian footballer who plays as a striker. He has been capped internationally for Montserrat. Career Club career Hodgson played for Long Eaton United, who he joined from ...

where he scored 8 goals in 15 appearances. In 2017, Darryl signed for

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, where he made 1 appearance in the senior team and 6 appearances in the Under 20 set-up before moving to State League 2 North-West team Hoppers Crossing SC in June and relegated the following year.

International career

Roach qualifies to play for

through his mother, who was born on the island. He was called up to the senior squad in 2011, for their

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CONCACAF first round qualifiers against

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. He made his debut against Belize on 15 June, in their home fixture, which was played at

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, Trinidad and Tobago. Montserrat lost 5–2. He played again in the away

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which was at held at

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, Honduras, but could not prevent Montserrat losing 3–1 and overall 8–3 on

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Personal life

Roach was born in England, and his grandmother was born in the Caribbean island of Montserrat. He moved to Australia, where he married a local woman.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roach, Darryl 1984 births Living people Montserrat men's international footballers Montserratian men's footballers Victorian Premier League players Isthmian League players Tilbury F.C. players Wingate & Finchley F.C. players Port Melbourne SC players South Springvale SC players FC Clifton Hill players Caroline Springs George Cross FC players Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards Hoppers Crossing SC players