Barry Johnston

Midfielder, Football player

1980 –

25

Who is Barry Johnston?

Barry Johnston is an Irish footballer currently playing for Cliftonville.

After serving the best of apprenticeships at Celtic Boys under Jim 'Dino' Heaney, Johnston believed he could cut it as a tricky winger when he joined Cliftonville's U18 set-up. Big 'Dino', though, felt his best position was a defensive one sweeper or right back.

An horrific broken leg suffered in his younger days made him re-appraise his attitude towards football. He still has nine screws and a steel plate anchored to his marrow.

It was during a two-year scholarship in New Orleans with William Carey College that Johnston began to thrive in the defensive midfield role.

The day he returned from his two-year sabbatical in the States, he contacted Marty Quinn about hooking up with him at Coleraine.

However, the chances of assuming his new-found central midfield role - occupied by Pat McAllister and Tony Gorman at Ballycastle Road at the time - were slim. Johnston had to make do with a wide midfield position while with the Bannsiders, but he was even deprived of that role for the 2003 Irish Cup final against Glentoran.

He moved to Coleraine in October 2002 where he reached two IFA Cup Finals in 2003 and 2004 against the same opposition Glentoran winning one and losing one.

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Born
Oct 28, 1980
Dublin
Nationality
  • Republic of Ireland
Lived in
  • Dublin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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