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Nathan Lewis Farquharson
Ex-Professional footballer

As a youngster, Farquharson played for Kingsley Junior Primary School. As a member of the original Wimbledon academy, he was prohibited from appearing for his secondary school on various occasions, Archbishop Lanfranc School, but nevertheless appeared in "a couple of cup games" for the school.[1] Upon his release from Wimbledon in 2001, Farquharson was quickly signed by Preston North End on a 6 month rolling contract in 2002. Unfortunately his spell at Preston was cut short by injury and a falling out with first team manager Billy Davies. Farquharson remained obsure from the Professional game of football for 3 years, instead choosing to play in the lower leagues with spells at Tooting and Mitcham United, Croydon Athletic and Whyteleafe. After a successful pre-season with Whyteleafe, Aston Villa soon made a move for the now 22 year old, Farquharson made his first-reserve team debut, as a substitute in a 2–2 draw against Birmingham City. His first senior game for Villa came in the 2–0 pre season victory against Middlesbrough on 5 March 2005. Less than 9 months later, on 5 january 2006, Farquharson left the club by mutual consent due to family issues. Despite Leaving Villa in 2005 Farquharson remained a casual player for the reserves playing in several reserve matches.

Farquharson sustained a serious injury to his right ankle in a game against Merstham, an injury which had been persistent during his career. Farquharson under went surgery in October 2006 at the London Foot and Ankle Clinic, with Wayne Diesel head team physician at Tottenham Hotspurs overseeing his rehabilitation, following advice from Aston Villa Reserve Manager Bryan Jones.

Farquharson returned from his ankle injury on 9 April 2007, coming on as a substitute for Michael Antonio against Leatherhead at Tooting and Mitcham.

On April 4th 2007, Farquharson underwent his UEFA 'B' Licence and was appointed Senior Coach at Football Charity Organisation Kick London. While working for Kick London, Farquharson also became assistant coach at Tooting and Mitcham youth working alongside Gideon Jackson.

In 2009 Farquharson began playing again for Combined counties side Dorking where he made several appearances before leaving at the close of the season. On November 24th 2009 Farquharson made a switch from his role at Kick London to The David Beckham Academy Greenwich. He here was united with FA course tutors Ted Dale and Mark Newson who held the roles of Academy Director and Assistant Academy Director.

After the Prestigious closure of the David Beckham Academy farquharson began playing for Ryman Div 1 side Horsham YMCA where he failed to make an impact resulting in only 5 appearances before leaving with a switch to Combined Counties Prem side Croydon FC.

1.^ http://www.kicklondon.org.uk/kldocuments/33.pdf 2.^ "South Park v Horsham YMCA FA Cup Preliminary round. BBC Sport. 2003-12-11. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/Horsham_YMCA/. Retrieved 2008-02-22. 3. ^Croydon FC http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Trams-pay-penalty-pushing-luck/story-11372436-detail/story.html 4. ^http://wzeu.search-results.com/r?t=p&d=apn&s=zuk&c=a&l=dis&o=15918&sv=0a652928&ip=bc1cd44c&id=68EE3EDC39963E5E9AEC49A9317DC9BC&q=nathan+farquharson+dorking+fc&p=1&qs=1&ac=24&g=17b1h1LNoxNyEd&cu.wz=0&en=gs&io=0&ep=&eo=&b=a001&bc=&br=&tp=d&ec=1&pt=DORKING%20FOOTBALL%20CLUB.%3A%20Dorking%20FC%20-%201st%20XI.&ex=&url=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clubwebsite.co.uk%2Fdorkingfc1001%2F105481%2Fseason_archive.pl 5.^http://www.rymanleague.com/leagues?player_appearances&lid=256&did=2104&comp=5205&sel=1&pid=785789&team=Horsham%20YMCA%20first 6.^http://www.rymanleague.com/leagues?match&lid=256&did=2104&comp=5205&fix_id=21478&fix_date=2010-08-28 7.^http://rymanleague.goalrun.com/leagues?match&lid=256&did=2104&comp=2104&fix_id=1092&fix_date=2010-09-07