Nadre Butcher

Nadre Butcher (born 6 March 2004) is a Barbadian footballer who plays as a forward, most recently for Irish club Bray Wanderers and the Barbados national team.

Club career

As a youth Butcher played for Pro Shottas United and was the youth tournament's joint top goal scorer in 2019.

In August 2022 Butcher and fellow-Bajan Honor Bradshaw joined SpVg Solingen-Wald 03 of the German Bezirksliga. In total he made four league appearances for the club, scoring one goal. His lone tally came against Sportfreunde Baumberg II on 4 September 2022. After his short stint in Germany, Butcher returned to Barbados and joined Weymouth Wales

In summer 2023, Butcher went on trial with League of Ireland First Division club Bray Wanderers. After a successful friendly appearance against Scottish Premiership club Dundee in which he scored his club's only goal, Bray Wanderers signed Butcher on 5 July 2023. He made his league debut for the club, playing the full match, against Finn Harps on 7 July.

International career

At the youth level, Butcher represented Barbados in the 2019 CONCACAF Boys' Under-15 Championship and 2021 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying. In the former competition he scored his team's only two goals, one against Trinidad and Tobago and a second against Costa Rica. In preparation for the tournament he scored in a 6–0 friendly victory over Sint Maarten and a brace in a 3–0 victory over Puerto Rico.

In January 2022 Butcher was called up to the senior squad for a series of friendlies ahead of the 2022–23 CONCACAF Nations League B. He went on to make his senior international debut on 28 January 2022 in a 0–1 friendly defeat away to Suriname.