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Darren Moore
Personal information
Full name	Darren Mark Moore
Date of birth	April 22, 1974 (1974-04-22) (age 33)
Place of birth	Birmingham, England
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Playing position	Centre Back
Club information
Current club	Derby County
Number	23
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992-1995 1995-1997 1997-1999 1999-2001 2001-2006 2006-	Torquay United Doncaster Rovers Bradford City Portsmouth West Bromwich Albion Derby County	103 (8) 076 (7) 062 (3) 059 (2) 104 (6) 058 (3)
National team
	Jamaica	003 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:38, 10 November 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Darren Mark Moore (born April 22, 1974 in Birmingham, England) is a professional footballer. He currently plays for Derby County. He is 6'3" tall and weighs 15 stone (210 lbs/95.25 kg). He has played at international level for Jamaica, for whom he qualifies through parentage.

Moore, a towering powerful defender, began his career as a trainee with Torquay United, making his debut while still a trainee on March 24, 1992 in a 2-1 defeat at home to his hometown side Birmingham City. He began the following season as first choice in the centre of defence, alongside Wes Saunders and went on to play over 100 league games for Torquay before leaving to join Doncaster Rovers for a fee of £62,500 in July 1995.

He moved to Bradford City for a fee of £310,000 in June 1997. He played 18 times during his first season with injuries limiting his starts. But in 1998-99 he started 44 games helping City to promotion into the Premier League for the first time. During the summer he refused to sign a new contract and fell out of favour with manager Paul Jewell. He played just once more for Bradford, in the Worthington Cup against Reading before Portsmouth snatched his services from a collection of other suitors, for a fee of £500,000, in November 1999.

He spent less than two years at Fratton Park before returning to the Midlands with West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £750,000 on 14 September 2001.^[1] The following day he made his Albion debut, as a 2nd-half substitute in a 2-1 win at Watford. Moore proved to be a rock at the heart of the Baggies defence as they earned promotion to the Premiership in 2001-02, and was named in the PFA Division One team of the year.^[2] After Albion were relegated from the top flight, he helped them bounce back at the first attempt, figuring in the promotion winning side of 2003-04.

Moore struggled to hold down a regular first team place during the first half of the 2005-06 season. He was sent off in the match against Wigan Athletic on 15 January, 2006, his only dismissal in over 100 games for Albion.^[3] It proved to be his last game for the club, and later that month he was allowed to join Derby County for a fee that could eventually reach £500,000 depending on appearances.^[4] His form for the Rams led to him being named in the PFA Championship team of the year for 2006-2007.^[5]

Moore has been given a variety of nicknames during his career. His first nickname Bruno originated at Torquay, due to his perceived resemblance to the boxer Frank Bruno. This nickname stuck with him while playing for Doncaster Rovers where he became a fans' favourite and Bradford City. At West Brom he was known by supporters as Big Dave,^[6] after a character in a Pot Noodle television advertisement, while at Derby he is now known as Dazza and Big Daz. Former Derby County Manager Billy Davies also referred to him as Mooro.

Moore is a devout Christian. He is active in the Christian charity Faith and Football with Linvoy Primus and Lomana Lua Lua. In 2006 Moore, along with Primus, walked the Great Wall of China to raise money for children's causes.

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• Moore has been part of four squads which have won promotion to the Premier League. They were Bradford City in 1999 West Bromwich Albion (twice) in 2002 and 2004 and Derby County in 2007.
• Moore was mentioned in the third series of the BBC's satirical cartoon Monkey Dust. The Islamist group from West Bromwich plan to assassinate him, but fail and receive a signed miniature shirt instead.

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