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Joel Senior (footballer, born 1999)
Joel Toby Senior (born 24 June 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right back for EFL League One club Bristol Rovers. Early and personal lifeSenior was born in Didsbury.[2] His brothers are also footballers, who played in non-league for Maine Road.[2] CareerSenior spent nearly a decade with Oldham Athletic, but was released at the age of 15 for being too small.[2] He later described it was the worst day of his life.[2] He began playing non-league football around Greater Manchester, initially with Sunday league team Hough End.[2] At the age of 16 he was playing for Maine Road and working two days a week in an engineering and design company.[2] He then made 68 appearances in all competitions for F.C. United of Manchester,[3] including 58 league appearances,[4] before moving to Curzon Ashton in February 2019,[5] for whom he made ten league appearances in National League North.[4] In May 2019 he signed a 12-month contract with Premier League club Burnley, with the option of a further year, with the intention that he would initially play with their under-23 team.[2][6][7] He was released by Burnley at the end of the 2019–20 season.[8] He later signed for Altrincham.[9] He signed for Carlisle United in January 2022.[10] On 30 May 2023, after Carlisle won promotion to League One, Carlisle manager Paul Simpson announced that Senior would be released once his contract expired.[11] In June 2023, it was announced that he would sign for League Two side Morecambe on a one-year deal from 1 July 2023.[12] Following a successful first season, Senior was named as Morecambe's Player of the Year, also winning Players' Player of the Season.[13] Despite having been offered a new contract, he opted to depart the club at the end of the 2023–24 season.[14] Bristol RoversOn 29 June 2024, Senior agreed to join League One side Bristol Rovers on a two-year deal with the option for a further season.[15][16] In his fourth appearance for the club, a 2–0 defeat to Stockport County, Senior suffered a torn hamstring, likely to rule him out of action for a period of around two months according to manager Matt Taylor.[17] Career statistics
HonoursCarlisle United Individual
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