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2012
Stephen Morrison joins the Green Machine family
Just after midday on Tuesday 17th April,
following a long sleepless flight from England,
Ngaruawahia’s latest signing landed at Auckland
airport and was met by Senior Coach Norm Rose.
Within hours he was at our Tuesday evening training
session with the lads. Steve Morrison is here
for 12 months and will be turning out for the “Green
Machine”. The 23-year-old is an attacking midfielder
and was a trainee at Everton. He is a tall, elegant
midfielder with excellent passing ability.
Originally from Birkdale he won England
Under-16 honours as well as becoming a key
member of the Everton Under-18s side. He then
graduated to the Reserves setup and featured for
Andy Holden’s team on a regular basis before being
released at the end of the 2007/08 campaign.
He moved to Southport and then
Skelmersdale United before transferring in 2010 to
Bala Town (Wales).
Steve has funded his own trip from
England to Ngaruawahia and he has immediately
become part of the Ngaruawahia United family.
Previous Clubs:
Bala Town FC
Skelmersdale
Everton
Position:
Midfielder
Born:
Liverpool
10th September 1988
Rep’ Honours:
England U-16s
U-18 League Match
Everton 2, Stoke City 0
Saturday 18 February 2006
Everton Team: Ingasson; Irving,
Dennehy, Rodwell, Kearney (Molyneux 90);
Morrison, Phelan, Harper, Vidarsson; Elder
(Connor 75), Agard (Densmore 60).
Subs not used: Holt, Hoogarwaert.
Scorers: Morrison, Elder.
Everton virtually sowed the match up in the
first 35 minutes and took the lead rather
fortuitously after 25 minutes when Morrison's
corner was headed back into his path and his low
cross managed to squeeze past the visitors'
keeper between his legs.
The Everton midfielder almost had a second
immediately but this time the keeper made a
better effort and saved from a well-struck freekick.
But it wasn't long before they doubled their
advantage with the impressive Morrison again
involved. His superb right-wing cross was headed
home by Elder.
Everton controlled the match for much of the
second half, despite Stoke trying to get back into
it.
U-18 League Match
Leeds 0, Everton 1
Saturday 3 September 2005 at Leeds
Everton Team: Lake, Elder, Molyneux, Holt,
Kearney, Phelan, Harper, Morrison, Dunn,
Kissock, Vidarsson, Downes.
Subs not used: N/A.
Scorer: Morrison.
On 20 minutes, a cross from Aidan Downes
on the right hand-side found Stephen Morrison at
the far post who comfortably headed past the
Leeds ‘keeper. Following the goal, the Blues grew
in confidence and became more settled, limiting
the home-side throughout the second half to
nothing but a series of long shots.
There were other opportunities to increase
the lead for Everton but in the end they had to
settle for returning to Merseyside having scored
just one but with the added bonus of keeping a
clean sheet
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