Photo: Jon Candy from Cardiff, Wales / CC BY-SA 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Fallon embodies the journeyman striker I have a soft spot for. A towering forward from Gisborne, New Zealand, he criss-crossed the English and Scottish leagues, turning out for more than a dozen clubs from Barnsley and Plymouth to Aberdeen and St Johnstone. That is not a story of a single glamorous peak but of relentless adaptability, of a man who kept finding pitches to fight on. Add 24 New Zealand caps and six international goals, and you have a player who carried his country onto the world stage. Now coaching, he strikes me as exactly the kind of seasoned voice young forwards should listen to.
Overview
Rory Michael Fallon (born 20 March 1982) is a New Zealand former professional footballer who played predominantly as a forward. He previously played for Barnsley, Shrewsbury Town, Swindon Town, Swansea City, Plymouth Argyle, Ipswich Town, Yeovil Town, Aberdeen, St Johnstone, Bristol Rovers, Scunthorpe United, Dorchester Town. He was also capped by New Zealand a total of 24 times, scoring 6 goals.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Rory Fallon
- Name (Japanese)
- ロリー・ファロン
- Reading
- ろりー・ふぁろん
- Born
- March 20, 1982 (age 44)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Dog
- Origin
- Gisborne, New Zealand
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 188 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / association football coach
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Association football player — see all → · Association football coach — see all → · More people from New Zealand →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.