Loick Pires
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Loick Barros Paiva Pires | ||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Winger/Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Welling United FC | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2005–2006 | Stoke City | ||
| 2006–2008 | Leyton Orient | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2008–2010 | Leyton Orient | 15 | (0) |
| 2010– | Welling United | 1 | (1) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 May 2010 | |||
Loick Barros Paiva Pires (born 20 November 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger and striker, and has just signed for Welling United FC after being released by Leyton Orient F.C. He is of Portuguese and Congolese heritage.
Career
His previous clubs include Stoke City F.C. 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 Rovers 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.[1]
Welling United
On 19th July 2010 he signed for Blue Square South side Welling United despite attracting interest from Barnet, Crawley Town and Eastbourne Boro. Pires suffered a knee injury on the 10th August 2010 prior to the start of the Conference South season and was ruled out for 4 weeks. He was then ineligble to play for a further 2 weeks due to the clubs transfer embargo. He scored a 30 yard free kick on his long awaited debut against Woking on 18th September 2010 after coming on as a 75th minute sub.
Club stats
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||
| Leyton Orient | 2008-09 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 2007-08 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
References
- ^ "O's release seven". LeytonOrient.com. 9 May 2010.
External links
- Loick Pires at Soccerbase
- Loick Pires profile at the Leyton Orient website