Keryn Jordan

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Keryn Jordan
Personal information
Full name Keryn David Jordan[1]
Date of birth (1975-11-01)1 November 1975[1]
Place of birth Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Date of death 21 October 2013(2013-10-21) (aged 37)
Place of death Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1995
Pretoria City
 7 (3)
1996–2003
Manning Rangers
 94 (52)
2003–2004
Moroka Swallows
 ? (8)
2004–2005 Waitakere United 21 (15)
2005–2010 Auckland City FC 79 (61)
International career
1999
South Africa
 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Keryn David Jordan (1 November 1975 – 21 October 2013) was a South African footballer who primarily played as a striker during a fifteen-year career.

Club career

Early career

He started his career in his native

Manning Rangers where he won the golden boot during the 1997–98 Premier Soccer League season with 11 goals. In the 2003/2004 season, he also led with 8 goals.[2]

Waitakere United

Jordan then moved to

A-League. He was unsuccessful in this and signed with new New Zealand Football Championship team Waitakere United instead. In his first season with the club (2004/2005), he scored 15 goals in the 21 rounds, and earned the Golden Boot.[3]

International career

Jordan earned one cap for

South Africa at senior international level, in 1999.[4]

Illness and death

In 2008, after an unexplained three months on the sideline, Jordan announced that he had been suffering from

Canterbury United.[5]

On 19 March 2010, Jordan announced his retirement from all levels of domestic and international football, citing ongoing knee injuries. Jordan had not played a full game since the 2009 Club World Cup, and he felt it the right time to retire, after what he conceded was an ultimately successful career.[6]

Jordan died of cancer on 21 October 2013, aged 37, in his hometown of Pretoria. The cancer had started as a melanoma spot thirteen years earlier, and eventually spread to his brain.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c "FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2009 presented by Toyota: List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 9 December 2009. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2012.
  2. ^ 2003–2004 South Africa Premier League goalscoring tally Archived 2010-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ 2004–2005 NZFC goalscorers tally
  4. ^ Keryn Jordan at National-Football-Teams.com
  5. The Sunday Star-Times
    . 24 February 2008. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  6. ^ Jordan calls it a day Archived 2010-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Football: Keryn Jordan loses battle with cancer

External links

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