Clive Clarke

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Clive Clarke
Personnel
Surname Clive Richard Luke Clarke
birthday January 14, 1980
place of birth Dublin ,  Ireland
position Left defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-2005 Stoke City 222 (9)
2005-2006 West Ham United 2 (0)
2006-2008 Sunderland FC 4 (0)
2006 →  Coventry City  (loan) 12 (0)
2007 →  Leicester City  (loan) 2 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2004 Ireland 2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Clive Richard Luke Clarke (born January 14, 1980 in Dublin ) is a former Irish football player who was primarily used as a left defender , but also played in the left or central midfield. He retired in February 2008, half a year after suffering cardiac arrest in a game.

Club career

Clarke started playing soccer with the Newtown Schoolboys in his Irish hometown of Newtownmountkennedy , County Wicklow . As a teenager he came to training at Stoke City in 1996 , where he made his debut in the professional team in May 1999 against Oldham Athletic . He quickly became a regular for the third division , with a total of 55 appearances in the 1999/2000 season and 33 games in the following season. 2001 and 2002 he reached the playoffs with Stoke for promotion to the second division, which succeeded in the second year. So Clarke played second rate from the 2001/02 season . He stayed with the Potters for a total of nine years and was on the pitch in a total of 262 games in all competitions.

For a transfer fee of 275,000 pounds , Clarke moved to West Ham United in late July 2005 at the request of United coach Alan Pardew . At West Ham, however, he only came to three missions and moved to Sunderland FC for the 2006/07 season . Here, however, he was only in four games and was loaned to Coventry City in October 2006 . In Coventry he came to twelve missions before returning to Sunderland, but could not collect any more match practice there.

In August 2007 he was loaned out again by the Premier League promoted team to the Football League Championship at Leicester City . On August 28, 2007, Clarke collapsed during the Carling Cup game at Nottingham Forest . The cause was probably a two-fold short cardiac arrest at half-time. Clarke was taken to the hospital; the game was canceled. Clarke's collapse happened just hours after the death of Sevilla FC player Antonio Puerta, who had also collapsed during a soccer game three days earlier .

Clarke was initially confident that he would play again. He received a pacemaker . After the incident, however, he was not used again at Leicester City or Sunderland, where he returned in November 2007. In February 2008, his contract with Sunderland FC was terminated by mutual agreement on the advice of his doctors.

National team

Clarke first played for Ireland's U-21 national team and was used twice in the Irish senior team in 2004 , against Nigeria in May and against Jamaica in June .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clarke 'improving' after collapse , BBC Sport, August 29, 2007
  2. ^ Clarke aims to play again , Sky Sports September 12, 2007, viewed August 16, 2008
  3. ↑ Defender Clarke leaves Sunderland , BBC Sport, February 6, 2008; sighted on August 16, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Clarke, Clive
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clarke, Clive Richard Luke (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin