Adam Legzdins
| Adam Legzdins | ||
 Adam Legzdins (2016)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Adam Richard Legzdins | |
| birthday | November 28, 1986 | |
| place of birth | Penkridge , England | |
| size | 183 cm | |
| position | goalkeeper | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| –2005 | Birmingham City | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2005-2008 | Birmingham City | 0 (0) |
| 2005 | → Alfreton Town (loan) | 2 (0) |
| 2005-2006 | → Halifax Town (loan) | 10 (0) |
| 2006-2007 | → Oldham Athletic (loan) | 0 (0) |
| 2007 | → Macclesfield Town (loan) | 0 (0) |
| 2007-2008 | → Halifax Town (loan) | 30 (0) |
| 2008-2010 | Crewe Alexandra | 6 (0) |
| 2009 | → Weymouth FC (loan) | 8 (0) |
| 2010-2011 | Burton Albion | 46 (0) |
| 2011-2014 | Derby County | 35 (0) |
| 2012 | → Burton Albion (loan) | 1 (0) |
| 2014-2015 | Leyton Orient | 11 (0) |
| 2015-2017 | Birmingham City | 15 (0) |
| 2017– | Burnley FC | 0 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of November 18, 2019 |
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Adam Richard Legzdins (born November 28, 1986 in Penkridge ) is an English football goalkeeper . Trained at Birmingham City , he moved to the Premier League for Burnley FC in August 2017 after holding posts in lower-class professional football such as Burton Albion and Derby County .
Career
Birmingham City
Legzdins was born in the county of Staffordshire and in Birmingham , south of it, he joined the Academy of Birmingham City as a teenager . There he was promoted to the professional field in 2005. However, probation opportunities remained in the local first team in the following three years. Instead, Birmingham loaned him in October 2005 to the sixth highest division at Alfreton Town and a short time later a league higher from Halifax Town . In the 2006/07 season, further loan engagements followed at Oldham Athletic (as a possible replacement for Les Pogliacomi ) and Macclesfield Town , but without being used there in a third or fourth division game - in the case of Macclesfield Town this was surprising, there Coach Paul Ince instead relied on goalkeeping coach David Rouse . After extending the contract in Birmingham for another year in the summer of 2007, he rejoined Halifax Town in October 2007 for three more months. There he immediately replaced the much more experienced Craig Mawson and the loan period was extended until the end of the 2007/08 season.
Crewe Alexandra & Burton Albion
In July 2008 Legzdins, who would be eligible to play for the Latvian football team due to the parentage of his grandparents , moved to third division Crewe Alexandra free of charge after two regular keepers had left the club with Ben Williams and Owain Fôn Williams . Regardless of this, the prospects for his new club remained poor. It was only in his second year that he made his debut in the fourth division, after David Button had recently returned to his regular club from Tottenham Hotspur . On August 22, 2009 he was 1-0 against Hereford United clean and by the summer of 2010 he had been in a total of six league games for Crewe between the posts. The year before he had played eight championship games in the spring of 2009 at the fifth division club Weymouth . Legzdins rejected a new one-year contract in May 2010 and on July 1, 2010 he instead joined the fourth division club Burton Albion for (planned) two years . In the 2010/11 season Legzdins played all 46 fourth division games for Burton Albion, which he recommended for higher tasks and found an interested party in the second division Derby County .
Derby County & Leyton Orient
At the end of June 2011, the club management of Burton Albion and Derby County agreed on a transfer of Adam Legzdins, who should be second goalkeeper behind Frank Fielding in the plans of his new coach Nigel Clough and received a contract with a term of three years. When Fielding was sent off in the first minute in a duel with local rivals Nottingham Forest on September 17, 2011 , Legzdins made his second division debut and made it successful with a 2-1 victory. He then returned to the "second row" and when he returned to his ex-club Burton Albion on loan for a month in March 2012, there was only one use due to a hip injury. In the following season 2012/13 Legzdins benefited from Fielding's groin injury in October 2012 and despite his recovery in the following month, he played 30 games in a row until March 2013. In the final spurt of the season, Clough then increasingly relied on fielding, which he considered more experienced, with the exception of a substitution after suspension for Fielding and in the last two games. When Derby signed Lee Grant in May 2013 , Legzdins - like Fielding - was released for a transfer despite a remaining contract term of one year. Ultimately, there was no change of club and after a year without a service in the Derby County's first team, Legzdins moved to third division Leyton Orient in June 2014 . He signed a two-year contract with the London-based club, but after just one year of injuries, an agreement was reached in June 2015 to end his engagement early.
Return to Birmingham
Shortly thereafter, Legzdins returned to his home club Birmingham City in late June 2015, with the contract having a two-year term and an option for an additional year. At the ex-club he was the second choice behind goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak and his appearances were mostly limited to the cup competitions and only on the occasion of an injury-related break of the Polish competitor he played eight second division games in a row from mid-September 2016 - coach set the derby against Aston Villa Gary Rowett then back to Kuszczak. Although Birmingham took advantage of the option of Legzdins' continued employment at the end of the 2016/17 season, Legzdins left the club in August 2017 for the first division club Burnley FC . Decisive for this was, as it were, that after signing David Stockdale he only threatened to become the third goalkeeper in Birmingham and that an adequate replacement for Tom Heaton was missing in Burnley after the resignation of Paul Robinson . Legzdins signed in Burnley for three years; It was agreed not to disclose the amount of the transfer fee.
Web links
- Profile at Bournemouth AFC
- Adam Legzdins in the weltfussball.de database
- Adam Legzdins in the soccerbase.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barnet vs Macclesfield (mtfc.co.uk)
- ↑ Crewe confirm signing of Legzdins (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Burton Albion swoop for goalkeeper Adam Legzdins (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Derby County sign Adam Legzdins from Burton Albion (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Legzdins back with Rams (uk.eurosport.yahoo.com)
- ↑ Rams will listen to offers for Fielding and Legzdins (Derby Telegraph)
- ↑ Adam Legzdins: Leyton Orient sign Derby County goalkeeper (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Adam Legzdins: Leyton Orient terminate keeper's contract (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Adam Legzdins: Birmingham City sign goalkeeper (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Birmingham City boss Gary Rowett discusses decision to drop Adam Legzdins (Birmingham Mail)
- ↑ Ex-Burton Albion goalkeeper Adam Legzdins leaves Birmingham City for Burnley (Staffordshire Live)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Legzdins, Adam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Legzdins, Adam Richard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English football goalkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Penkridge , England |