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Sean Scannell (born 17 September 1990, in Croydon, London) is an Irish footballer who currently plays for Feijenoord on loan from Manchester City and for the Ireland. He is primarily a winger but can also play as a striker.

Personal
Scannell is the brother of Eastleigh player Damian Scannell  and as a youngster growing up played for Addiscombe Corinthians. He attended Ashburton Community School from 2002 to 2007.

First Team Breakthrough 2007-2009
He joined Palace at 14 and notched 23 goals for the academy during the 2006-07 season, graduating to the reserves before braking into the first team in the 2007-08 season. Scannell made his debut for Crystal Palace 2-1 win at capital rivals QPR in December 2007, coming on as a substitute for Franck Songo'o. In his home debut against Sheffield Wednesday on 15 December, he again came on to replace Songo'o in the second half and scored a 90th minute winner, his first senior goal in a 2–1 victory for Crystal Palace. He finished that campaign having featured in 25 games, earning him a call up to the Republic of Ireland Under-17's squad due to his good form, and was named Palace’s Young Player of the Year award in 2008.

Following this, Scannell was offered a two and a half year professional contract with Palace, and in order to beat off interest from, among others, Manchester United, Manchester City, Everton and Blackburn Rovers, chairman Simon Jordan placed his value at £3million. Scannell signed the contract at the beginning of the new year, and celebrated by scoring Palace's second goal in a 3–0 victory at Molineux against Wolverhampton Wanderers the following weekend.

Young Player of the Year and Injury
Scannell is described as an exciting player with searing pace and is one of many talents to emerge from Palace's academy in the last few years. He has also won the Crystal Palace Young Player of the Year Award 2008.

At the end of the 2008–09 season, and still only 18 years old, Scannell was voted Championship Apprentice of the Year due to the outstanding potential he demonstrated throughout the season. He made steady progress over the following two campaigns, but missed the first half of the 2010-11 campaign because of a knee injury, that restricted him to 19 outings over the 2010-11 league campaigns although he did manage to score twice in both seasons.

Youth & B Level
Born in England and being of Irish and Jamaican heritage, Scannell is eligible to play international football for four national teams, though chose to represent Republic of Ireland at international level, who he qualifies for through his father, who is from County Armagh, which allows him choice between both Irish national sides under the Good Friday Agreement.He has so far represented then at Under-17, Under-18, Under-19, Under-21 and Ireland B level.

Scannell made his Republic of Ireland Under-21 début in a 1-1 draw with the Montenegro Under-21's in March 2008 at Terryland Park in Galway. In 2007 he was awarded the Young Player of the Year award by the Football Association of Ireland. Scannell was named man of the match in the under-21's 1-1 draw with the German Under-21 on 10 February 2009 at Turners Cross in Cork City. He has made 6 appearances for the Under-21 since 2009 as of 2012. On 30th July 2012 Scannell received his first call up to the squad since joining Huddersfield Town for U21's forthcoming UEFA 2013 European Championship qualifier against Turkey. He would play the final 10 minutes for the Irish in his 10th appearance.

Senior Team
His good form with Palace led to him being recognised by Republic of Ireland coach Giovanni Trapattoni, who called Scannell into his first 40-man squad and later into his final 28-man squad.

Honours

 * Republic of Ireland:
 * Republic of Ireland Young Player of the Year: 2007


 * Crystal Palace F.C.:
 * Crystal Palace Young Player of the Year: 2008
 * Crystal Palace VP Youth Player of the Year: 2008
 * Championship Apprentice of the Year: 2009

Club statistics

 * NOTE: teams in Italics indicate loan period
 * NOTE: Football League play-offs results included in Total