Loick Pires
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Loick Muamba Pires is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger and striker
for Welling United
.
, Pires' previous clubs include Stoke City
and Alexandra Park.
on 19 April 2008. He was offered a new contract on 4 May 2009. On 11 May 2009, at the annual Leyton Orient awards dinner, Pires was awarded with the inaugural Leyton Orient Community Player of the Year award for his outstanding contributions to the club's community sports programmes and youth schemes.
Despite scoring 10 goals in 12 reserve games, Pires was unable to find a regular place in the first team and was released by O's manager Russell Slade
on 9 May 2010.
side Welling United despite attracting interest from Barnet, Crawley Town and Eastbourne Borough. Pires suffered a knee injury on 10 August 2010 prior to the start of the Conference South season and was ruled out for four weeks. He was then ineligible to play for a further two weeks due to the club's transfer embargo. He scored a 30 yard free kick on his long awaited debut against Woking on 18 September 2010, after coming on as a 75th minute sub. Loick and his team-mates narrowly missed out on the play-offs but it was still deemed as a successful season as the club faced a points deduction and a transfer embargo. In total he made 27 appearances scoring 9 goals. Loick also won Goal of the season for his 30 yard spectacular volley against Bishop's Stortford.
He gained some notoriety in the national press as a result of an impromptu toilet break during Welling United's match against Woking on 3 September 2011. The Sun reported that he hurdled a barrier during the first half in order to visit the spectators' toilets. Upon returning to the pitch, he was booked for re-entering the field without permission.
Striker
Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...
for Welling United
Welling United F.C.
Welling United Football Club are an English football club, based in Welling in the London Borough of Bexley. They currently play in the Conference South. The 2010–11 season was not a good one for them as the club had financial problems, nearly going bankrupt but lots of supporters chipped in and...
.
Career
Born in LisbonLisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, Pires' previous clubs include Stoke City
Stoke City F.C.
Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...
and Alexandra Park.
Leyton Orient
Pires had been a regular for both youth and reserves teams for Orient since joining in 2006 and earned his first full professional contract in April 2008. The youngster made great strides in the 2008–09 season making a total of seven appearances in his first season as a professional, making his debut as a substitute for Orient in a home game against Doncaster RoversDoncaster Rovers F.C.
Doncaster Rovers Football Club is an English football club, based at the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The team currently competes in the Football League Championship, after being promoted via the League One play-offs in 2008, and have remained there since.The club was founded in...
on 19 April 2008. He was offered a new contract on 4 May 2009. On 11 May 2009, at the annual Leyton Orient awards dinner, Pires was awarded with the inaugural Leyton Orient Community Player of the Year award for his outstanding contributions to the club's community sports programmes and youth schemes.
Despite scoring 10 goals in 12 reserve games, Pires was unable to find a regular place in the first team and was released by O's manager Russell Slade
Russell Slade
Russell Slade is an English football manager currently in charge of League One side Leyton Orient.-Notts County:Slade was assistant manager to Mick Walker at Notts County, and took over as caretaker manager when Walker was sacked in September 1994. When County appointed Howard Kendall as manager...
on 9 May 2010.
Welling United
On 19 July 2010, he signed for Conference SouthConference South
Conference South is one of the second divisions of the Football Conference in England, taking its place immediately below the Conference National...
side Welling United despite attracting interest from Barnet, Crawley Town and Eastbourne Borough. Pires suffered a knee injury on 10 August 2010 prior to the start of the Conference South season and was ruled out for four weeks. He was then ineligible to play for a further two weeks due to the club's transfer embargo. He scored a 30 yard free kick on his long awaited debut against Woking on 18 September 2010, after coming on as a 75th minute sub. Loick and his team-mates narrowly missed out on the play-offs but it was still deemed as a successful season as the club faced a points deduction and a transfer embargo. In total he made 27 appearances scoring 9 goals. Loick also won Goal of the season for his 30 yard spectacular volley against Bishop's Stortford.
He gained some notoriety in the national press as a result of an impromptu toilet break during Welling United's match against Woking on 3 September 2011. The Sun reported that he hurdled a barrier during the first half in order to visit the spectators' toilets. Upon returning to the pitch, he was booked for re-entering the field without permission.