Frank Talia

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Frank Talia
Personal information
Full name Francesco Talia
Date of birth (1972-07-20) 20 July 1972 (age 51)
Place of birth Melbourne, Australia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1988–1990
Sunshine George Cross
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1992
Sunshine George Cross
 11 (0)
1992–1995 Blackburn Rovers 0 (0)
1992 → Hartlepool United (loan) 14 (0)
1995–2000 Swindon Town 107 (0)
2000 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 (0)
2000–2001 Sheffield United 6 (0)
2001–2002
Royal Antwerp
 3 (0)
2002 Reading 0 (0)
2002–2007 Wycombe Wanderers 132 (0)
Total 273 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Francesco "Frank" Talia (born 20 July 1972 in

Football League Two
.

Career

Early career

He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder from 1989 to 1990.[1] Talia began his career at Australian club

Sunshine Georgies before moving to Blackburn Rovers
in August 1992.

Although he was at the club for three years, Talia did not make any first-team appearances for Blackburn and following this he moved to Swindon Town in September 1995 after a loan spell at Hartlepool United.

For a while, he was Blackburn's second choice goalkeeper behind

FA Charity Shield
.

Talia made over 100 appearances in five years at Swindon winning the player of the year award in 2000 before moving to Sheffield United in September 2000, where he made six appearances.

In March 2002, Talia signed a short-term contract with English Division 2 side Reading,[2] sitting on the bench for the final six games of the season.[3]

Wycombe

Martin Taylor. His chance came against Bristol City after Taylor developed a back problem and he continued in goal after Taylor gashed his knee at the Wycombe's training ground. Talia then made over 100 appearances for the club, despite being sidelined when he sliced his toe with a lawn-mower in 2004 [4] and a knee injury that side-lined him for six months in August 2006,.[5]

References

  1. ISBN 1-74013-060-X
    .
  2. ^ "Royals make keeper swoop". Sky Sports. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  3. ^ "So Close But So Far - Reading FC's Unused Unused Subs". thetilehurstend.sbnation.com/. The Tilehurst End. 27 March 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Soccer's Talia slashes toe with lawnmower". UPI. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Wycombe rocked by injury to Talia". BBC. 4 August 2006. Retrieved 14 September 2009.

External links

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