Craig Davies
| Craig Davies | ||
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Craig Martin Davies | |
| birthday | January 9, 1986 | |
| place of birth | Burton-upon-Trent , England | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Shrewsbury Town | ||
| Manchester City | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2003-2004 | Manchester City | 0 (0) |
| 2004-2006 | Oxford United | 48 (8) |
| 2006-2007 | Hellas Verona | 1 (0) |
| 2006-2007 | → Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) | 23 (0) |
| 2007-2009 | Oldham Athletic | 44 (10) |
| 2008 | → Stockport County (loan) | 9 (5) |
| 2009-2010 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 21 (1) |
| 2009 | → Yeovil Town (loan) | 4 (0) |
| 2010 | → Port Vale (loan) | 24 (7) |
| 2010-2011 | Chesterfield FC | 41 (23) |
| 2011-2013 | Barnsley FC | 60 (19) |
| 2013-2015 | Bolton Wanderers | 53 (10) |
| 2014 | → Preston North End (loan) | 15 (5) |
| 2015-2017 | Wigan Athletic | 40 (3) |
| 2017 | Scunthorpe United | 19 (0) |
| 2017– | Oldham Athletic | 2 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2002-2003 | Wales U17 | 8 (2) |
| 2003-2004 | Wales U-19 | 7 (0) |
| 2004-2007 | Wales U-21 | 8 (3) |
| 2005-2013 | Wales | 7 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of August 28, 2017 |
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Craig Martin Davies (born January 9, 1986 in Burton-upon-Trent ) is a Welsh football player . The striker was active for several clubs from a young age - including a short-term engagement for the Italian club Hellas Verona in 2006 - and has been under contract with Oldham Athletic since 2017 .
Athletic career
As a youth player, Davies was in the youth departments of Shrewsbury Town and later Manchester City , with the leap to the professional team of "Citizens" was withheld. Instead, the young attacker sought his luck at fourth division Oxford United in August 2004 and made his debut there on August 30, 2004 in a 1-0 away win against Notts County . He scored a total of six league goals in 29 games in the 2004/05 season and was about to move to the Premier League for Charlton Athletic in June 2005 . Instead of a transfer to the top English division, however, a jump to Italy came about six months later, when Davies went to the second division Hellas Verona for a transfer fee of 85,000 pounds . In Veneto , however, he was not happy - he subsequently stated that the change of cultures had come too early for him at a young age - and after only one appearance in Serie B , the English second division Wolverhampton Wanderers loaned him in August 2006 for an entire season.
In the "Wolves" he was in the first half of the 2006/07 season as a substitute player in the team, but remained goalless with the exception of two goals against Oldham Athletic in the FA Cup . When a new striker was signed in January 2007 with Andy Keogh , Davies remained almost without further match practice and moved in June 2007 to the third division Oldham Athletic, against whom he had previously played his best two games of the season for Wolverhampton. In Oldham, he was instantly a crowd favorite when he scored the 2-1 winner in the last minute on his debut against Swansea City and with his ten league goals in the 2007/08 season he was his club's top scorer. At the beginning of the following season 2008/09 Davies showed in the first ten competitive games, however, shapeless and goalless, whereupon he was loaned to rivals Stockport County in November 2008 . There he scored six goals in 13 missions, three of which he achieved on December 20, 2008 in a 3-1 win against Bristol Rovers .
Shortly after his return to Oldham and four other goalless games, Davies was hired on February 2, 2009 at Brighton & Hove Albion - another Football League One club -, signed a three-and-a-half-year contract and scored here on his debut against Peterborough United , although the game was lost 4-2 and the goal was the last for his new club in the 2008/09 season. On September 25, 2009, the "Seagulls" loaned him to Yeovil Town for a targeted period of one month , as Davies' pecking order in the attack initially fell behind the well-harmonizing Nicky Forster and Liam Dickinson . After the turn of the year he found his long-lost marksmanship at the next loan club, Port Vale, with seven league goals by the end of the 2009/10 season, and before the start of the 2010/11 season he made a new sporting attempt by signing a one-year contract with fourth division club Chesterfield .
Welsh national team
After he had already played for several Welsh youth teams, Davies, who was entitled to play for Wales through his grandparents, came on August 17, 2005 against Slovenia for his first international match for the senior national team . After being sent off during a game in the Welsh U-21s against Israel (2: 3), his international career came to a standstill when he was suspended from five competitive matches, which effectively put him out of action for 18 months.
Web links
- Craig Davies in the soccerbase.com database
- Profile at Barnsley FC
Individual evidence
- ^ "Charlton keen on Oxford striker" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Wales striker makes Wolves move" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "McNulty and Davies join Brighton" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Brighton 2-4 Peterborough" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Loan Move for Davies" ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Brighton & Hove Albion)
- ↑ "Spireites sign striker" ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Chesterfield FC)
- ↑ "Craig Davies wins Wales recall" (Wales Online)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Davies, Craig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Davies, Craig Martin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | welsh football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burton-upon-Trent , England |