Adam Black
Personal information
Full name Adam James Black
Date of birth (1992-05-24) 24 May 1992
Place of birth Liverpool, England[1]
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
0000–2009 Accrington Stanley
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2013 Oklahoma City Stars 52 (41)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2010 Accrington Stanley 1 (0)
2010–2011 Alsager Town
2011–2014 Oklahoma City
2014 Austin Aztex
2015 Tulsa Roughnecks 25 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:13, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Adam James Black (born 24 May 1992)[2][3][lower-alpha 1] is an English footballer who played as a forward.[4]

Career

He started as a trainee with Accrington Stanley[5] and made one senior appearance for the club,[4] coming on as a substitute for John Miles on 10 October 2009 in a Football League Two match with Cheltenham Town.[6] He left the club in May 2010[4] and joined Alsager Town.[5]

United States

Black then went to study at Oklahoma City University for three years where he played college soccer, scoring 41 goals during his time.[7] After leaving college, he played for USL side Tulsa Roughnecks during the 2015 season, scoring three times in 25 games.[8]

Trivia

Whilst a sixteen-year-old with Accrington in 2008 he was selected to compete in the Skill Skool competition against his teammate Scott Craggs, as part of Accrington's appearance on Soccer AM.[9]

Notes

  1. ↑ Most sources show his birth date as 24 May 1992 but Soccerbase mistakenly shows 25 October 1986

References

  1. ↑ Rollin, Glenda; Rollin, Jack, eds. (2010). Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2010–2011 (41st ed.). London: Headline. ISBN 978-0-7553-6107-6.
  2. 1 2 "Football - Adam Black". Europsort.com. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  3. ↑ "28. Adam Black - Striker". Team Talk. Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  4. 1 2 3 "28. Adam Black". Soccerbase. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  5. 1 2 "ACCRINGTON STANLEY : 1946/47-1961/62 & 2006/07-2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  6. ↑ Murry Toms. "Accrington vs Cheltenham". Match report 10 October 2009. Cheltenham Town FC. Archived from the original on 21 December 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  7. ↑ "BLACK FROM STARS TURNS PRO WITH TULSA ROUGHNECKS FC". Sooner Athletic Conference. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  8. ↑ Adam Black at Soccerway
  9. ↑ "Stanley to feature on Soccer AM". Vital Stanley. Vitalfootball.co.uk. 7 August 2008. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
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