Darren Huckerby

Darren Huckerby
Personal information
Full name	Darren Carl Huckerby
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Norwich City
Number	6
	‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:42, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Darren Carl Huckerby (born April 23 1976 in Nottingham, England), is a professional footballer who is currently playing for Norwich City. He is a winger who can also play as a conventional forward.

Club career

Early career

From his debut until 2000, Huckerby played for Lincoln City, Millwall (on loan), Newcastle United, Coventry City and Leeds United

In his time at Coventry, he scored a memorable goal against Manchester United who at that time were the current champions. With the score 2-2 and the referee seconds from blowing the final whistle, Huckerby dribbled from the half way line past numerous players and scored in the bottom left corner, giving Coventry a 3-2 win.

Manchester City

Huckerby won a first division championship medal with Manchester City in 2002, scoring 26 times during the campaign.

He spent part of the following season on loan at Nottingham Forest and was part of the team that reached the division one play-offs in 2003.

Huckerby spent a three month loan spell with Norwich City before signing for them permanently in December 2003, for a fee of £750,000, which rose to £1 million when Norwich were promoted at the end of the season.

Norwich

Since moving to Norwich, Huckerby's career has settled. In a striking role in the then First Division in 2003-04, he netted 14 times. He was instrumental in Norwich's march to the Division One championship in the 2003-04 season, and came second in the supporters vote for player of the season behind Craig Fleming.

Reverting to a left wing role for much of Norwich's Premiership spell in 2004-05, Huckerby scored seven goals. He was linked with a move to Liverpool in January 2005 and to Celtic in summer 2006, Huckerby spoke of his intention to see out his contract in East Anglia, even after relegation. He was voted Norwich City player of the year by supporters for the 2004-05 and 2006-07 seasons and second place behind Gary Doherty for the 2005-06 season. He was voted into the Norwich City F.C. Hall of Fame in 2004.

On December 9 2006, Huckerby signed a new contract with Norwich that will keep him at the club until the end of the 2007-08 season. Huckerby is the current holder of the Norwich City player of the year award.

On July 17 2007 Huckerby openly criticised the Norwich City board after news that they were selling fellow canary and friend, Dickson Etuhu.

International career

Huckerby won an England 'B' cap in 1998 against Chile 'B' at The Hawthorns.

Honours

As a player

First division championship winner 2002, 2004
Norwich City player of the year 2005, 2007

External links

Darren Huckerby at Soccerbase