Ian Fairbrother, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetIan Fairbrother
English footballer
Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1966
Place of Birth: Bootle, England, United Kingdom
Profession: association football player
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Ian Fairbrother
- Ian Fairbrother (born 2 October 1966) is an English retired footballer.
- He spent the majority of his career in the United States. He spent his youth career with Manchester United and Blackburn Rovers, but began his professional career in 1984 with Liverpool.
- He never played any games for Liverpool's first team, and moved to Bury on a free transfer in 1986.
- In 1988, he moved to the United States to play for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the American Soccer League.
- However, he is not listed with Fort Lauderdale's first team that year.
- During the summer of 1989, he played for the amateur Wichita Blue in the Heartland Soccer League.
- On 14 December 1989, he signed with the Wichita Wings of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
- In May 1990, he joined the Miami Freedom in the American Professional Soccer League.
- He returned to the Wings in August 1990, but lost the first two months of the MISL season after having an emergency appendectomy.
- He returned in December and played out the remainder of the season.
- In 1991, he moved to the Detroit Rockers in the National Professional Soccer League.
- The Rockers won the 1991-1992 league championship.
- He played only five games, scoring two goals, with the Rockers during the 1992-1993 season before losing the rest of the season to tendinitis of his Achilles tendon.
- He returned for the 1993-1994 season, scoring 23 goals in 38 games.
- In 1994, he moved to the expansion Detroit Neon which played summer indoor soccer in the Continental Indoor Soccer League.
- Fairbrother remained with Detroit through the 1997 season.
- That year, the team was renamed the Detroit Safari.
- In August 1997, he served as the team's interim coach.
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