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FOOTBALL

Leigh Griffiths moves to Mandurah City in Australia

Striker, 31, joins semi-professional team in Australia’s third tier
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Scotland’s Leigh Griffiths, aged 31, ended last season at Falkirk
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Leigh Griffiths, the former Celtic striker, has agreed to join Mandurah City, the Australian semi-professional outfit.

The club, who are based in Western Australia, say the 31-year-old will feature in their last two home games of the season.

Mandurah play in the Football West State League Division 1, which is among a group of 11 regional divisions in the third tier of football in Australia.

The club, based about an hour from Perth, are managed by the former Raith Rovers, Partick Thistle and St Mirren forward John Baird.

Griffiths was recently training with Livingston to keep fit, having left Falkirk at the end of last season.

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The Scotland international signed a new contract with Celtic on July 1 last year but never featured under Ange Postecoglou and had an underwhelming loan spell at Dundee before joining Falkirk in January, scoring a total of five goals all season.

Griffiths scored 123 goals in 261 appearances for Celtic but off-field issues, which led to him spending six months out of the game in 2018-19, affected the latter stages of his career in Glasgow.

The former Livingston, Wolves and Hibernian striker won the most recent of his 22 Scotland caps in November 2020 and was left out of the squad for the European Championship finals the following summer.

Baird told The Scottish Sun: “Leigh is a friend of mine and he’s coming over for a holiday and a look round. I think he has some family nearby so he’s eager to come over and see everyone and have a look at the club.

“We only have four games left this season but he’s going to come over and see what he thinks of the place. I never actually played with Leigh in Scotland but I’ve played against him many times and he’s a friend.

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“I know he’s been keeping up his fitness back in Scotland while looking for a club and was working hard at Livingston.”

A Mandurah City club statement said: “[We] are delighted to announce that former Scotland and Celtic forward Leigh Griffiths will be joining the club.

“Leigh is undoubtedly one of the biggest signings in not only Mandurah’s history, but one of the biggest in Australian NPL & State League football history.”

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