Connor Wickham

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Connor Wickham
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Connor Wickham (2014)
Personnel
birthday March 31, 1993
place of birth Hereford ,  England
size 191 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2002-2006 Reading FC
2006-2009 Ipswich Town
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2011 Ipswich Town 65 (13)
2011-2015 Sunderland AFC 79 (11)
2013-2014 →  Sheffield Wednesday  (loan) 17 0(9)
2014 →  Leeds United  (loan) 5 0(0)
2015– Crystal Palace FC 38 0(7)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2008-2009 England U16 2 0(1)
2008-2010 England U17 13 0(9)
2010-2011 England U19 4 0(1)
2010-2015 England U21 17 0(6)
1 Only league games are given.
As of December 29, 2019

Connor Wickham (born March 31, 1993 in Hereford ) is an English football player .

Wickham has been playing for the first division club Crystal Palace since the summer of 2015 and is considered a great hope in the storm of the English national team .

Career

society

In 2002, Wickham began playing football in the youth division of Reading FC . In 2006 he moved to Colchester with his family . There he played in the school team of the Philip Morant School and in the youth teams of Ipswich Town . Already at the age of 12 he had offers from numerous top English clubs, all of which he declined.

In the 2008/09 season he sniffed for the first time in the professional team that played in the Football League Championship , the second English division. He made his debut on April 11, 2009 (42nd matchday) against the Doncaster Rovers at the age of only 16 years and eleven days. This made him the youngest player ever to play for Ipswich Town. His first goals in professional football he scored in the League Cup game against Shrewsbury Town on August 11, 2009. At 3: 3 in the first round, he scored two goals; in the subsequent penalty shoot-out, which Ipswich won 4-2, he met again.

In the 2009/10 season, Wickham was used regularly. In 26 missions he scored four hits; the first on March 13, 2010 for a 1-0 win in added time against Scunthorpe United . After scoring three more goals in just four consecutive games in April 2010, he was named the league's best young player that month. Also in the 2010/11 season he was an integral part of the team of trainer Roy Keane and therefore continued to attract the interest of numerous English and European top teams. On February 15, 2011, he scored three goals against the Doncaster Rovers to make it 6-0. With his team he reached the semi-finals of the League Cup , but where Arsenal had to be beaten. That season, Wickham received the Football League Young Player of the Year Award and the Championship Apprentice Award .

On June 29, 2011 Connor Wickham signed a four-year contract with the Premier League club AFC Sunderland and moved to Sunderland for a transfer fee of initially nine million euros. He decided against the offers of higher-rated first division clubs in order to get better opportunities. On August 20, 2011, the second match day of the 2011/12 season , he made his debut in the 1-0 defeat by Newcastle United in the English elite class when he came on for Sebastian Larsson shortly before the end . His first goal in the Premier League was on October 29, 2011 in a 2-2 draw with Aston Villa . Due to injuries, among other things, he sat on the bench more often in his first two seasons and was unable to score another goal in a total of 28 games. In early February 2013 he was loaned to the second division team Sheffield Wednesday for a month . In that short time he played six times in the Football League Championship and scored one goal. On February 26, 2014, he was loaned out to Leeds United until the end of the 2013-14 season . In August 2015 he moved to Crystal Palace FC

National team

Wickham played for England's U-16 national team and won the 2008 Victory Shield , an annual tournament between the U-16 national teams of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

For the U-17 national team, he scored a remarkable nine times in 13 games. So he could z. B. in the European Championship qualifier against Azerbaijan scored three goals in just 21 minutes. In 2010 he and his team took part in the U-17 European Championship in Liechtenstein , where the English won the title. With his two goals in the 2-1 victory over the Netherlands in the semifinals and the decisive goal to 2-1 in the final against Spain, Wickham played a major role in this success and won the Golden Player Award for best player of the tournament. Because of his excellent performance, there was even discussion in England about a possible participation in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. However, he was not nominated by national coach Fabio Capello .

On November 16, 2010, he made his debut for the U-21 national team in the game against Germany . At the U-21 European Championship in Denmark in 2011 , he was in the squad, but was not used. In the following two years he played frequently in qualifying for the U-21 European Championship in 2013 ; at the tournament itself, which took place in June 2013 in Israel , it was used in all three group matches.

Trivia

  • In September 2010 he stood in front of the camera with Wayne Rooney and Joe Hart for a TV commercial for the sporting goods manufacturer Umbro .

successes

title

Web links

Commons : Connor Wickham  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b England's new hope Connor Wickham - Boy genius ( Memento from January 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Article on 11freunde.de from December 7, 2010
  2. ↑ Sunderland secures super talent Wickham Article on kicker.de from June 29, 2011
  3. ^ Sunderland striker Connor Wickham 'joins Leeds United on loan' sportsmole.co.uk, accessed February 26, 2014
  4. ↑ Meet Connor Wickham: The Next Steven Gerrard Article on bleacherreport.com from May 31, 2010 (Eng.)
  5. ↑ 2010: Connor Wickham portrait on uefa.com
personal data
SURNAME Wickham, Connor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Hereford , England