Grant Young is a football (soccer) player who represented South Africa

South Africa national football team

The South Africa national football team represents South Africa in association football and is controlled by the South African Football Association, the governing body for football in South Africa. South Africa's home ground is Soccer City, known as FNB Stadium due to a naming rights deal, in...

 at international level and participated in two FIFA Club World Cup

FIFA Club World Cup

The FIFA Club World Cup is a football competition between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations.The first FIFA Club World Championship took place in Brazil in January 2000...

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Career

Born in South Africa, Young spent much of his career with local club Hellenic

Hellenic FC

Hellenic FC was a South African association football club based in Cape Town. They were nicknamed The Greek Gods.Established in 1958 by Greek South Africans, Hellenic campaigned in the lower amateur leagues of Cape Town...

 before a stint with Ghent in Belgium. He emigrated to New Zealand in 2004 where he played first for East Coast Bays

East Coast Bays

East Coast Bays is the collective name for a series of small suburbs of North Shore City, in the Auckland metropolitan area of New Zealand, which line the northeast coast of the city along the shore of the Hauraki Gulf and Rangitoto Channel...

, before joining Central United

Central United

Central United Football Club is a semi-professional Association football club based in Sandringham, Auckland, New Zealand...

 and subsequently Auckland City FC

Auckland City FC

Auckland City Football Club is a football club based in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city. The club competes in the eight-team ASB Premiership which is the highest level of domestic football in the country...

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He represented Auckland City in their first FIFA Club World Cup

FIFA Club World Cup

The FIFA Club World Cup is a football competition between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations.The first FIFA Club World Championship took place in Brazil in January 2000...

 appearance in 2006, in which they failed to impress, losing every game, and failing to score a single goal, and again in the 2009

2009 FIFA Club World Cup

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 competition in United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

 where they fared better, beating TP Mazembe

TP Mazembe

Tout Puissant Mazembe, formerly known as Englebert, are a Congolese football club based in Lubumbashi. Their home games are played at Stade Municipal de Lubumbashi. Its nickname is Les corbeaux despite having a crocodile with a ball in its mouth on the team crest...

 3-2 before going out to Atlante Fútbol Club

Atlante F.C.

Club de Fútbol Atlante, is a Mexican professional football club, currently playing in the Mexican First Division League. The club is based in Cancún, Mexico as of the start of the 2007-08 season, when they relocated from Mexico City, and plays its home games in Estadio Andrés Quintana Roo.-Domestic...

 in the quarter finals.

International career

Young made a solitary appearance for South Africa

South Africa national football team

The South Africa national football team represents South Africa in association football and is controlled by the South African Football Association, the governing body for football in South Africa. South Africa's home ground is Soccer City, known as FNB Stadium due to a naming rights deal, in...

 as a substitute in a friendly against Australia on 12 June 1994. Australia won the match 1-0.