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Danny Carroll (born 9th April 1976) is an English former semi-professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for Stevenage F.C., Farnborough FC, Crawley Town, Bromley FC, Dulwich Hamlet FC, Carshalton Athletic, Tooting & Mitcham United, Whyteleafe FC and Chipstead FC. He also played for the England C team in 2002, against the Combined Services at RAF Uxbridge.

Playing Career
Carroll was a junior at the Crystal Palace FC Centre of Excellence for a number of years. He finished his youth team days at Whyteleafe FC, where he won the Player of the Year award in 1994. He started his Senior career at Chipstead FC, during which time they won the Combined Counties League Premier Division Challenge Cup in 1994-95. From there he moved up the pyramid to Whyteleafe FC, where he played for just over a season, before securing a move to Bromley FC in the Isthmian Premier Division (then Step 2). He scored 10 goals for Bromley in the 1998-99 season, before the manager, George Wakeling, left to take over at Ashford Town (Kent) in early 1999. Following a poor run of results under the leadership of club captain Frank Coles, Bromley appointed a new manager, Dave Edwards. He allowed Carroll to move to Dulwich Hamlet FC, which many saw as a mistake, with Bromley ending the season relegated.

Carroll flourished at Dulwich Hamlet FC under Dave Garland's leadership. Garland had previously coached Carroll at Crystal Palace FC. Carroll scored numerous goals in his time at Hamlet, winning all 3 of the club's Player of the Year awards in May 2000. He also played alongside Peter Crouchduring Crouch's loan spell at Hamlet in 2000.

Billy Smith's Crawley Town FC signed Carroll in the summer of 2000. They were one of the better supported and ambitious clubs in the Southern League and Carroll continued his goal-scoring form from midfield, scoring 36 goals in two seasons there. Carroll won the Crawley Observer Player of the Year award in 2001, before winning all of the club's Player of the Year awards in 2002.

In the spring of 2002, Carroll was selected for the England C (then called National Game XI) for a match against the Combined Services. Carroll told the Stevenage FC History website,

Owner and manager,Graham Westley, signed Carroll for Conference League side Farnborough FC in the summer of 2002. Carroll played 25 games in total for the Hampshire side, scoring 5 goals. Two of the goals came in the FA Cup Third Round at Third Division Darlington FC, earning Carroll the first ever 'Player of the 3rd Round' award from the Football Association.

The most high-profile match of Carroll's career came in the 4th Round of the FA Cup, when Farnborough played Arsenal FC at the Arsenal Stadium, Highbury in front of more than 35,000 fans in January 2003. Although Town lost the match 5-1, they gave a good account of themselves against the Double holders and soon to be 'Invincibles'.

Westley shocked the non-league football world when he left Farnborough one week later to take the manager's post at Stevenage FC, taking several players and staff members with him. Stevenage were 21st in the league when Westley took over, but recovered to finish the season in 12th place. Carroll scored 5 goals in his 15 matches for Stevenage that season.

His second season at Stevenage started with Carroll in fine form, but he suffered a number of injuries and only played 18 games that season. Westley offered Carroll a new, full-time deal at the end of the 2003-04 season, but they could not agree terms and Carroll joined his former Crawley manager Billy Smith at Conference South club Carshalton Athletic, as club captain.

Carroll rejoined Bromley FC in 2005, helping the club win promotion into the Ryman Premier Division via the play offs. He then won the Kent Senior Cup with Bromley in the 2005-06 season, beating Gravesend and Northfleet FC in the final.

Carroll followed Smith and George Wakeling to Tooting & Mitcham United in 2006, where came second in the League, won the Surrey Senior Cup, the London Senior Cup and reached the final of the Ryman Division One South play offs. Carroll retired at the end of that season, at the age of just 30, due to back and eye injuries.

Coaching career
Carroll started coaching the Youth Team at Tooting & Mitcham United in 2007-08, where he helped develop a young Michail Antonio. Smith and Wakeling promoted Carroll to 1st Team Coach in 2008, before he left to coach at Brentford FC at their Centre of Excellence, under the leadership of Barry Quin. Carroll quickly became assistant coach to Darren Sarll for the Youth and Reserves team.

In 2010 Carroll coached in the academy at Crystal Palace FC before work commitments meant that he moved to coach at the Fulham FC academy. He moved back into non-league coaching in 2012, coaching the 1st team at Walton Casuals before being handed the managerial reins by chairman Tony Gale in the October. Carroll shocked the club by resigning in March 2013, citing pressure from his teaching job as the reason.

Carroll moved to Dorset in 2014 and coached part-time at AFC Bournemouth. He accepted a full-time role at the club in 2017, gaining his A Licence and Advanced Youth Award in the preceding years. Carroll is currently the club's Lead Youth Development Phase Coach.