24 Facts About Keith Keane

Keith Francis Keane was born on 20 November 1986 and is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for The 61 FC.

Keith Keane is a former academy player who graduated from the youth ranks at Luton Town.

Keith Keane was awarded the Young Player of the Season award that season for his performances, and was rewarded with a new two-year contract.

The next season, after Newell's departure, Keith Keane was frozen out of the first-team by new manager Kevin Blackwell, who preferred to play his own new signing Richard Jackson.

However, Keith Keane was eventually brought back into the team to replace Jackson, and later made the position his own when Luton Town fan favourite Mick Harford replaced Blackwell as manager in January 2008.

Keith Keane won the Player of the Season award at the end of the season, as well as the Players' Player of the Year and Internet Player of the Season award.

Keith Keane's displays earned Keane the Player of the Season and Internet Player of the Season awards for the second year in a row.

On 15 January 2010, Keith Keane was placed on the transfer list at Luton.

Keith Keane was shown a red card for a second bookable offence after celebrating the goal with the Luton fans.

Keith Keane dismissed any speculation as to his Luton future by signing a new two-year contract with the club on 9 June 2010.

Keith Keane played the full 120 minutes of the 2011 Conference Premier play-off final against AFC Wimbledon in May 2011; a game that saw Luton miss out on a return to the Football League by losing the penalty shoot-out.

Keith Keane went on to make 42 appearances on what turned out to be his final season at Kenilworth Road.

On 17 December, Keith Keane extended his contract with Preston for a further twelve months, thus keeping him at the club until the summer of 2015.

On 9 September 2014, Keith Keane joined League One club Crawley Town on a three-month loan deal.

Keith Keane returned to Preston having made 15 appearances in all competitions for Crawley.

On 5 March 2015, Keith Keane was loaned to League Two club Stevenage on a one-month loan deal.

Keith Keane was released by the club at the end of the season.

On 27 May 2015, it was announced that Keith Keane had signed a two-year contract with League Two club Cambridge United, linking up with former Luton manager Richard Money.

However, injuries restricted Keith Keane's playing time and he rejoined Stevenage on loan on 14 January 2016 until 20 February.

On 31 August 2016, Keith Keane joined League One club Rochdale on loan until 2 January 2017.

Keith Keane finished his loan spell with 17 appearances, before joining Rochdale permanently on a one-and-a-half-year contract a day later, after leaving Cambridge by mutual consent.

Keith Keane was called up by Sean McCaffrey to play for the Republic of Ireland under-19 team in February 2004 for two friendlies against Slovenia.

In October 2005, Keith Keane received his first call-up to the Republic of Ireland under-21 team for a 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against Cyprus, in which he was named in the starting lineup to make his debut.

Keith Keane was called up to the squad for a friendly against Sweden on 12 October 2007.