September 20, 2024

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Mumbai Town FC whole signing of Rostyn Griffiths

Indian Tremendous League franchise Mumbai Town FC on Sunday introduced the signing of central defender Rostyn Griffiths. The 34-year-old joins the Islanders from fellow Town Soccer Workforce facet and A-League outfit Melbourne Town FC after placing pen to paper on a one-year contract which runs till the tip of the 2022/23 season.

He received the A-League Premiers and Championship double within the 2020/21 season and likewise featured within the membership’s debut continental marketing campaign on the 2022 AFC Champions League, sooner than getting his arms on a 2d consecutive Premiers name in 2021/22 with the Melbourne-based membership.

Griffiths began his occupation with then-Premier League facet Blackburn Rovers sooner than shifting to Australia to ply his industry. He made his A-league debut with Adelaide United and went directly to constitute North Queensland Fury and Central Coast Mariners, the place he had an overly a success spell, profitable the Premiers within the 2011/12 season.

Griffiths then featured for China’s Guangzhou Town and the Dutch membership Roda JC sooner than returning to A-league with Perth Glory. Previous to becoming a member of Melbourne Town, he became out for Uzbek facet Pakhtakor Tashkent within the 2017/18 Uzbekistan Tremendous League.

He has a complete of 321 appearances and 23 targets to his identify in his membership occupation thus far. “In my opinion, it is a new problem in my existence and I’m able for it. The membership’s imaginative and prescient and ambition is a large think about serving to my choice to come back right here along side what Des Buckingham intends to construct right here at Mumbai Town,” Griffiths used to be quoted as pronouncing in a media unlock.

The membership’s head trainer Des Buckingham described the 34-year-old as a best participant.