Craig Gardner (soccer player)

Craig Gardner
Craig Gardner (2012)
Personnel
birthday	November 25, 1986
place of birth	Solihull ,  England
size	178 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000–2005	Aston Villa
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2010	Aston Villa	59 0(5)
2010-2011	Birmingham City	42 0(9)
2011-2014	Sunderland AFC	81 (11)
2014-2017	West Bromwich Albion	78 0(6)
2017	→ Birmingham City (loan)	20 0(2)
2017–	Birmingham City	4 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2007-2009	England U-21	14 0(2)
1 Only league games are given. As of September 6, 2017

Craig Gardner (born November 25, 1986 in Solihull ) is an English football player who has been under contract with Birmingham City since 2017 .

Club career

Aston Villa

Gardners began his career in the Aston Villa youth team . On January 31, 2005, he signed his first professional contract with Aston Villa. He made his debut on December 26, 2005 at Villa Park against Everton FC . He scored Gardner's first goal against Middlesbrough FC in April 2006. In August 2007 he extended his contract with the Villans until June 2011 and another year later until 2012. In 2007, he appeared as an English U-21 National player and in October as a free kick specialist in appearance. Due to intermittent injury problems, Gardner played a number of games as a right full-back .

Birmingham City

On January 26, 2010, Birmingham City announced the purchase of the midfield player, the transfer fee was around £ 3 million. After a relegation in the Premier League 2009/10 Gardner rose with his team in the 2010/11 season from the Premier League . But the club secured the title in the Carling Cup with a 2-1 final win over Arsenal FC .

Sunderland AFC

On June 30, 2011, Sunderland AFC announced the signing of Craig Gardner. The transfer fee was 6 million pounds.

National team

As an English U-21 player, he was part of the team that in the Swedish Championship in 2009 won second place and the final of the German Nachwuchself with 0: lost 4 - he was in the final until the 79th minute for Martin Cranie substitute .

Web links

• Craig Gardner in the soccerbase.com database
• Profile at Aston Villa
• Data of the individual seasons

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Aston Villa 1-0 West Ham" (BBC Sport)
2. ↑ Gardner's a true blue ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Change to AFC Sunderland Article from June 30, 2011 at bbc.co.uk
4. ↑ "Germany claim first Under-21 crown" (uefa.com)