Dean Windass

Dean Windass
Personnel
birthday	April 1st 1969
place of birth	Kingston upon Hull ,  England
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
until 1987	Hull City
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1990-1991	North Ferriby United	18 (21)
1991-1995	Hull City	176 (57)
1995-1998	Aberdeen FC	78 (23)
1998-1999	Oxford United	33 (15)
1999-2001	Bradford City	74 (15)
2001-2003	Middlesbrough FC	37 0(3)
2001	→  Sheffield Wednesday  (loan)	2 0(0)
2002	→  Sheffield United  (loan)	4 0(3)
2003	Sheffield United	16 0(3)
2003-2007	Bradford City	142 (89)
2007	→  Hull City  (loan)	18 0(8)
2007-2009	Hull City	42 (12)
2009	→  Oldham Athletic  (loan)	11 0(1)
2009	Darlington FC	6 0(0)
2010	Barton Town	1 0(3)
2010–	Scarborough Athletic
1 Only league games are given. As of July 23, 2008

Dean Windass (born April 1, 1969 in Kingston upon Hull ( Gipsyville ), England ) is a former professional English football player . He currently plays for AFC Walkington, a club on the 14th level of the English league system .

Career

Dean Windass began his career in the youth department of Hull City , whose fan Windass was even before his professional career. At the age of 16 he was invited to a trial training session there. 1990/91 he was for North Ferriby United on the hunt for goals after he was released from Hull's offspring in 1987 because head coach Brian Horton found him not good enough. In North Ferriby he had a large share in winning the President's Cup and the East Riding Senior Cup . In October 1991 coach Terry Dolan brought the striker back to the then third division club Hull City, where he then became a professional footballer at the age of 22. In the years that followed, the offensive player developed into a high performer and darling of the public. In the league, however, things did not go so well for the club. After Windass played for relegation in the first two years at Hull, they missed 1993/94 by four points, in ninth place, a place for the relegation games for promotion. The team even finished eighth for the coming season. After financial problems, Hull had to sell Windass in December 1995, which saved the club from bankruptcy. Windass eventually signed with Scottish club Aberdeen FC . In Aberdeen, the striker developed into an "enfant terrible" . Again and again Windass made headlines next to the pitch. He also received three red cards on November 9, 1997, in the league game against FC Dundee . One for brutal foul play, another for insulting the referee and a third for destroying a corner flag after being sent off . In the summer of 1998 he left Scotland and joined Oxford United . United Aberdeen paid £ 470,000 for this, which is still a club record today (as of January 2011) . For Oxford, Windass stormed in the Football League First Division , the second highest English league. As penultimate, the club rose at the end of the season. Already in March 1999 Windass left the relegated team and transferred to Bradford City and made it into the Premier League as second behind Sunderland AFC . There he succeeded on March 22, 2000 against Derby County a hat trick in the English House of Lords. With ten goals, Windass was his club's best attacker in 1999/00. In the end, they just secured relegation. For the new season, the strikers Benito Carbone and Ashley Ward were signed . As a result, the offensive player often moved into midfield. Again Bradford had to fear for relegation. But before the end of the season, Windass left the club and was sold to league rivals FC Middlesbrough . For the first time he did not manage to assert himself at a club. Small injuries threw him back several times. The Middlesbrough board therefore decided to loan the player to Sheffield Wednesday and later to Sheffield United . In January 2003, Windass moved permanently to Sheffield United (then: Football League First Division) after his former teammate and Scottish international Stuart McCall asked him. Windass reached third place with his club in the second division and thus the relegation games for promotion. For this, however, coach Neil Warnock deleted him . The club lost to the Wolverhampton Wanderers in the decisive encounter . After that incident, Windass and Sheffield quickly parted ways and the attacker went to his former club Bradford City. As in his earlier days, Windass quickly became a regular and was able to build on previous performances. Soon he rose to become the third best goal scorer in the club's history. Due to insufficient quality of the squad and financial problems, the club rose in 2004 to the Football League Second Divisionfrom. There Windass scored a total of 28 league goals in 2004/05, making it the league's best attacker. Still, it was only enough for City to be midfield. He scored 20 goals in the following year, but again the promotion rank was clearly missed. Despite speculation about a club change, Windass signed a new contract with the lower class club in October 2006. Nevertheless, it came in January 2007 to a loan deal with Hull City, with whom he played from then on to remain in the second division. For Bradford he scored 87 goals in 76 league games so far, which brought him third in the club ranking behind Robert McFaul Campbell (121 goals) and Frank O'Rourke (88 goals).

In Hull Windass was again the crowd favorite and by eight goals in the back series 2006/07 he helped the club to remain in the First Division. Although he played for two clubs that season, he was the best attacker for both teams at the end of the season. However, his actual employer Bradford missed relegation and Windass decided to stay at Hull City. On March 22, 2008, Windass ran for his 700th competitive game, soon after, on May 11, he scored his 200th competitive game goal in English football. With his 201st goal in the promotion game against Bristol City , the now 39-year-old shot his club into the Premier League for the first time in the club's 104-year history. After the encounter, Windass was voted Player of the Game. What was remarkable about his goal was the previous announcement of his goal:

"When coach Phil Brown let me out against Sheffield United in January," Windass told the Guardian , "I told him I would score the goal that will bring Hull into the Premier League."

In the club's first first division season, however, the striker found a place in the starting line-up and was often just a spectator. As a 39-year-old, he was also the season's oldest Premier League professional. After neglect and some non-sporting headlines, Windass left the club on loan in January 2009 and went to Oldham Athletic in the third division. Shortly after his move on 7 February in the league game against Leicester City, attention moved to Windass after club goalkeeper Greg Fleming was sent off in the 50th minute and the attacker stepped into goal. The game ended goalless. He was named goalkeeper of the week for his good performance. A week later, against Northampton Town , the offensive player scored his 200th league goal. After problems with coach John Sheridan , Windass soon left Oldham and returned to Hull City, but could not be used due to loan regulations. At the end of the season, Hull coach Phil Brown announced that he was no longer planning with Windass. In the summer of 2009, the attacker signed a contract with Darlington FC , where he also became an assistant to Colin Todd , under whom he played in his second period at Bradford. Previously, his former employer Hull City gave him a farewell game against FC Aberdeen in his honor. After only nine games, all without a win, the coaching duo Todd / Windass was dismissed and the attacker announced the end of his career. In August 2010, he announced his resignation and joined the amateur club Barton Town , where he received a "game-to-game" contract under his former teammate Dave Anderson . Two months later he played for the Scarborough Athletic , where he played under his brother-in-law, assistant to Scarborough.

Trivia

• Before his career as a professional soccer player, Windass worked as a bricklayer or in other odd jobs.
• In 2003, when Windass was active for Sheffield United , he caused an uproar when he watched his club's Premier League promotion match in a Cardiff pub . The attacker was previously removed from the squad by trainer Neil Warnock for the game.
• In October 2007, Windass published his biography "Deano - From Gipsyville to the Premiership" with a foreword by English football legend Bryan Robson .

successes

society

• President's Cup with North Ferriby United: 1991
• East Riding Senior Cup with North Ferriby United: 1991
• Promotion to the Premier League with Bradford City: 1993
• Promotion to the Premier League with Hull City: 2008

Individually

• Player of the game in the promotion match against Bristol City on May 24, 2008
• Goalkeeper of the week after a game against Leicester City on February 7, 2009

Web links

• Dean Windass in the database of weltfussball.de
• Dean Windass in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Dean Windass in the soccerbase.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Dean Windass: Prodigal son who took Tigers to the Prem on mirrorfootball.co.uk (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Wind im Sturm from July 23, 2008 on spiegel.de
3. ↑ A boy named Windarsch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from July 2, 2008 on 11freunde.de  
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Secrets of a Problem Tiger from November 12, 2008 on spox.com
5. ↑ The Tigers moved into third place in the table following a deserved 2-0 win at Leicester City on Saturday ( Memento of the original from March 14, 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. from March 22, 2008 on hullcityafc.net (English) 
6. ↑ Championship Play-off Final: Bristol City 0 Hull City 1 from May 25, 2008 on mirror.co.uk
7. ↑ Oldham seal Windass loan signing on news.bbc.co.uk (English)
8. ↑ Oldham 2-1 Northampton, February 14, 2009 on news.bbc.co.uk
9. ↑ Hull City released 8 June 2008 on transfermarkt.de
10. ↑ Dean Windass finally calls time on his playing career at 40 from October 19, 2009 on guardian.co.uk (English)