Corry Evans

Corry Evans
Evans in the shirt of Hull City (2011)
Personnel
Surname	Corry John Evans
birthday	July 30, 1990
place of birth	Belfast ,  Northern Ireland
size	173 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Greenisland Boys FC
2005-2009	Manchester United
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2011	Manchester United	0 (0)
2010	→ Carlisle United (loan)	1 (0)
2011	→ Hull City (loan)	18 (3)
2011-2013	Hull City	75 (3)
2013–	Blackburn Rovers	100 (3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2006-2007	Northern Ireland U-16	3 (1)
2007	Northern Ireland U-17	5 (0)
2007-2008	Northern Ireland U-19	9 (0)
2008-2009	Northern Ireland U-21	9 (0)
2009	Northern Ireland B	1 (0)
2009–	Northern Ireland	38 (1)
1 Only league games are given. As of November 5, 2016 2 As of October 11, 2016

Corry John Evans (born July 30, 1990 in Belfast ) is a Northern Irish football player. The midfielder is also active for the Northern Irish national football team. His brother, Jonny Evans , is also a soccer player.

Career

youth

Evans is from Belfast and played in his youth for Greenisland Boys FC, which is located in Greenisland, a town north of Belfast. When his brother Jonny Evans was signed by Manchester United in 2004, the whole family relocated to Manchester . Corry himself joined Manchester United a year later. At 16 he played regularly for the Red Devils U-18 team. On October 31, 2005, he also made his debut for the reserve team. In the 2008/2009 season he was able to secure a permanent place in the second agency.

Manchester United

On May 24, 2009 Evans was appointed to the Manchester United squad for the first time. In the game against Hull City he was on the bench. A year later he was at the beginning of the 2010/2011 season for United in several friendly matches, but was loaned out to third division club Carlisle United for a month in October 2010 .

Hull City

On January 14, 2011 Evans moved to the second division Hull City . First on loan, later he moved permanently to the 2011/2012 season. With the club, which was relegated from the first division in 2010 , he finished 11th and 8th in the first two seasons. 2012/13 managed to return to the Premier League as a runner-up .

Blackburn Rovers

In August 2013, however, Evans moved to former league rivals Blackburn Rovers for 880,000 euros and made a total of 89 league appearances in three second division seasons. The rovers took 8th, 9th and 15th place one after the other in the final accounts.

National team

Even as a schoolboy Evans played for the youth national teams of Northern Ireland. With the U-21 he took part in the qualifications for the U-21 European Championship in 2009 and 2011 and met the eventual world champions Mats Hummels , Sami Khedira , Toni in the games against Germany on September 5, 2008 and November 13, 2009 Kroos , Thomas Müller , Mesut Özil and André Schürrle . While the Germans successfully qualified for the finals in 2009 and won the title in the finals, the Northern Irish were eliminated in 2009 as third group and fourth in group in 2011, but the Germans did not qualify in 2011 either.

On June 6, 2009, he made his debut for the senior team in a game against Italy as a U-21 international . After two more friendlies, he made his competitive debut in qualifying for the Euro 2012 against Slovenia on September 3, 2010 and decided the game for the Northern Irish with a " joker goal" - his only international goal to date. Then he was on the pitch three times over the full playing time. Already on August 11, 2010 he was in the 0: 2 in the friendly against Montenegro for the first time together with his older brother Jonny in an international match when he came on for his fifth international match in the second half, while Jonny was already in the starting line-up and played his 21st international match. In Corry's four games earlier, Jonny was not on the team. In total, they have played 19 games together for Northern Ireland so far, most recently on June 16, 2016.

In the qualification for Euro 2012 that followed their first international match , they played four games together, but Jonny played two more qualifying games. For the Northern Irish, however, the qualification was again unsuccessful. In the equally unsuccessful qualification for the 2014 World Cup , they made three joint appearances.

In qualifying for the European Football Championship in 2016 , he was then regularly in the starting line-up and was used in 7 of the 10 games, playing three times with his brother. After Northern Ireland had qualified for a European Championship for the first time, the brothers were included in the squad of Wales . In the first game against Poland , only Jonny was on the starting line-up. It was his 50th international match. Against Ukraine , both were part of the first team. In stoppage time there was a confusion as to which of the two should be replaced. After Corry was finally substituted in the third minute of stoppage time, Jonny received a yellow card a minute later because of a delay in the game . Two minutes later Niall McGinn still managed the goal to make it 2-0 and thus the final decision for the Northern Irish, who won their first European Championship final game. Despite the 1-0 defeat in the third group game against Germany, the team qualified for the round of 16, in which they were eliminated against Wales. Corry Evans was also in the starting line-up in both games.

Web links

• Corry Evans in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile at soccerway.com
• All international matches
• Profile on the Blackburn Rovers website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Germany (U21) - Northern Ireland (U21) 3: 0
2. ↑ Northern Ireland U21 vs. Germany U21 1 - 1
3. ^ Montenegro - North. Ireland 2-0
4. ↑ Northern Ireland nominated as 1st team fixed EM squad . Kronen newspaper. May 28, 2016. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
5. ↑ Ukraine - North. Ireland 0-2