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Name: Daniel Ballard  Born: 22 September 1999, Stevenage Height: 6.02 ft / 1.87 m Weight: Position: Central Defender Representative Honours:  Northern Ireland: Full, Under-21, Youth. Club Honours: (with Sunderland) EFL Championship Play-Off Winner 2024/25 . Club Career:  Teams .... -Seasons- Signed -Fee- League  Arsenal ...................   Youth  . 0(0)/0 Swindon T.  19/20 ...   Jul-19  . Loan . 0(1)/0  Blackpool.  20/21  ...  Oct-20  . Loan 24(1)/2 Millwall.. 21/22  ...  Jul-21  . Loan 30(1)/1 Sunderland 22/23  ...  Jul-22  . Free Biography:  English-born defender with Arsenal, first called-up to the senior squad by Michael O'Neill in 2019. He then suffered a major injury while on loan at Swindon but was thrown into Ian Baraclough's first starting eleven that drew 1-1 in Romania , despite playing nearly an hour with ten men.  Ballard's mother is from Northern Ireland, and he...

648 vs Germany - 649  - 650 vs Norway 2020-21 UEFA Nations League - League B Group 1 Fri 4th September 2020. KO: 21:45 local time ROMANIA   (ROU) 1-1  NORTHERN IRELAND  (NIR) (H/T 1-0) Venue:  Arena Națională, Bucharest Attendance : Behind closed doors due to Covid-19 Referee : François Letexier (FRA) Assistant Referees : Cyril Mugnier (FRA), Nicolas Danos (FRA) Fourth Official : Amaury Delerue (FRA) Goals : NIR: Whyte (86'); ROU: Puşcaş (25') NORTHERN IRELAND : 4-3-2-1 (green shirts, white shorts, green socks) Manager : Ian Baraclough Captain : Steven Davis Team : B Peacock-Farrell; S Dallas, D Ballard [M Smith 90+1'], C Cathcart, J Lewis; S Davis, C Evans [K Lafferty 77'], P McNair; J Magennis, G Saville; C Washington [G Whyte 65'] Unused subs : M McGovern [GK], T Carson [GK], C McLaughlin, N McGinn, L Boyce, S Ferguson, J Thompson, J Cooper, S Lavery Booked : J Magennis (13' + 39'), C Evans (33') Sent-off : J Magennis (39') ROMANIA : 4-3-1-2 (y...

-  UEFA Nations League  - -  2018-19  -  2020-21  -  2022-23  -  The draw for the second, restructured UEFA Nations League took place on 3rd March 2020 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Northern Ireland were seeded in pot 4 of League B. The draw placed them in Group 1 alongside Austria, Norway and Romania. Following the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, some fixtures were rescheduled on 26th June 2020. Due to the restructure, which saw the Groups in Leagues A-C expanded from three teams to four, NI avoided relegation to League C - which should have been the case after finishing bottom of League B (24th overall) in the 2018/19 Nations League . Matches : 04/09/20 ROU 1-1 NIR 07/09/20 NIR 1-5 NOR 11/10/20 AUT 0-1 AUT 14/10/20 NOR 1-0 NIR 15/11/20 AUT 2-1 NIR 18/11/20 NIR 1-1 ROU Successful teams have an additional opportunity to qualify for World Cup 2022. Pos Team Pl W D L F ...