Jay Bothroyd
| Jay Bothroyd | ||
 Bothroyd in Cardiff City Shirt (2010)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | May 5th 1982 | |
| place of birth | Islington , England | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1995-2000 | Arsenal FC | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2000-2003 | Coventry City | 72 (14) |
| 2003-2005 | AC Perugia | 28 (5) |
| 2004-2005 | → Blackburn Rovers (loan) | 11 (1) |
| 2005-2006 | Charlton Athletic | 18 (2) |
| 2006-2008 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 55 (12) |
| 2008 | → Stoke City (loan) | 4 (0) |
| 2008-2011 | Cardiff City | 116 (41) |
| 2011-2013 | Queens Park Rangers | 25 (3) |
| 2012-2013 | → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) | 14 (1) |
| 2014 | Muangthong United | 16 (6) |
| 2015-2016 | Júbilo Iwata | 54 (34) |
| 2017– | Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo | 56 (27) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1997-1998 | England pupil | 9 (3) |
| 2001 | England U-21 | 1 (1) |
| 2010 | England | 1 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: October 22, 2019 |
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Jay Bothroyd (born May 5, 1982 in Islington ) is an English football player of Guyanese origin. The striker was trained at the Arsenal FC academy.
Career
Coventry City (2000-2003)
Bothroyd spent his youth at the London club Arsenal FC. The prospect of continuously working his way up to the professional squad was built into himself when, at the age of 18, in a youth cup final against West Ham United, he angrily threw his jersey on the bench after being substituted and was dismissed for disciplinary reasons. He signed a new contract with first division club Coventry City in July 2000 for a transfer fee of one million pounds , made his debut there on September 27, 2000 in the League Cup against Preston North End (4-1), but remained just as unsuccessful as in the others nine competitive games that Bothroyd played in the 2000/01 season for the "Sky Blues". After relegation to the second division, the talented attacker, who at times tended to outbursts of temper and struggled with motivation problems, came to the fore more often - he benefited from the fact that the club had to sell a number of players due to increasing financial problems. He scored his first goal against Bradford City (1: 2) on August 24, 2001, and was the club's most accurate player in the 2002/03 season with eleven competitive goals. So he aroused the interest of the Italian top division club AC Perugia , where he hired after his contract in Coventry expired.
Perugia, Blackburn and Charlton (2003-2006)
In the Italian Umbria , however , he could not prevail in the team, as well as the media-effective newcomer As-Saadi al-Qaddhafi , rose at the end of the 2003/04 season after a lost relegation game against Fiorentina in Serie B and had to fight against racist hostility in the audience according to own information. He went back to England on loan to the Blackburn Rovers in August 2004 and scored his only goal for the "Rovers" on October 30, 2004 in a 2-2 draw against Liverpool FC under coach Graeme Souness . A week later he made an assault against Mattias Jonson in the game against Norwich City , which meant that he was only used sporadically and returned to Perugia at the end of the season.
After Perugia had released his English "legionnaire" at the end of the season due to the poor economic situation, Bothroyd moved on August 31, 2005 to the Premier League club Charlton Athletic . However, his stay there was also short-lived; Most of the "Addicks" remembered his powerful free kicks and the two league goals against Manchester City and Newcastle United , but after the coach change to Iain Dowie , the club put him on the transfer list. Bothroyd went with the team from Crystal Palace on a season preparatory tour of the USA, which did not result in a permanent commitment of the striker.
Wolverhampton Wanderers (2006-2008)
Instead, he moved to the second division Wolverhampton Wanderers on July 26, 2006 and was the first commitment of the new coach Mick McCarthy . In the first few games he justified this trust and scored three goals in the first four competitive games, including a winning long-range goal against Leeds United in stoppage time. Already from the next game, however, his luck ran out; he missed a penalty during the 1-0 defeat by Derby County and after an intense goal doldrums he injured himself so badly in December 2006 that he was only a substitute player despite his comeback two months later and a hit in the prestigious duel against West Bromwich Albion appeared.
For the 2007/08 season his place was mostly found on the bench during a series of five games in the starting XI in the 2007 Christmas season, he remained goalless. When the club management loaned out two more strikers in the winter, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Kevin Kyle, bothroyd's time in Wolverhampton was up. He received in March 2008 clearance for a loan deal with second division rivals Stoke City and played the season there to the end. In Stoke-on-Trent, however, he only played four games and back in Wolverhampton he was suggested to change clubs.
Cardiff City (2008-2011)
Despite an offer from first division promoter Hull City , Bothroyd decided to move to the Welsh club and English second division club Cardiff City and signed a three-year contract there on August 4, 2008 - the transfer fee was 350,000 pounds, which were to be paid in two equal installments. The local coach Dave Jones decided after the first games of the Football League Championship in 2008/09 for Bothroyd as the "first choice" in relation to the strike partner for the Scottish international player Ross McCormack . Against his old club Coventry City (2: 1) he managed the first goal for the "Bluebirds" and a muscle injury from the game against his second ex-club Wolverhampton Wanderers did not hinder him permanently - in December 2008 he was in the election for Second place player of the month behind Stephen Hunt . In the Football League Championship 2010/11 Bothroyd (37 games / 18 goals) made a name for himself as one of the league's most accurate players.
Queens Park Rangers (since 2011)
On July 13, 2011 Jay Bothroyd moved to Premier League promoted Queens Park Rangers on a free transfer and signed a three-year contract.
National team career
The former English youth selection player played a game for the U-21 team in his country of birth and scored a spectacular goal in the 3-0 win against Mexico .
On November 17, 2010 he made his debut on the occasion of a friendly against France for the England senior team . The game ended in a 1: 2 defeat and in an eleven peppered with reserve players he came in the 72nd minute for Andy Carroll , who had also made his debut.
Due to his grandparents from Jamaica , Bothroyd is also eligible to play for the senior national team of the “Reggae Boyz” .
Awards
Web links
- Jay Bothroyd's own homepage
- Jay Bothroyd in the soccerbase.com database
- Profile at Cardiff City
- Jay Bothroyd in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Jay Bothroyd in the soccerway.com database
Individual evidence
- ^ Gavin Willacy / English Schools Football Association: England Schoolboys, International Players records 1907-99 . Redwood Books Ltd., Trowbridge 1999, p. 47 .
- ^ "Coventry agree fee for teenage striker" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Bothroyd signs for Perugia" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Bothroyd talks of racism agony" (WalesOnline)
- ^ "Blackburn bring in Bothroyd" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Blackburn 2-2 Liverpool" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Bothroyd makes move to Charlton" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Charlton 2-5 Man City" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Charlton 3-1 Newcastle" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Bothroyd denies Palace trial" (Sky Sports)
- ^ "Wolves sign Bothroyd from Addicks" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Bothroyd stays with Stoke" (Sky Sports)
- ^ "Bluebirds beat Premiership to Jay Bothroyd" (South Wales Echo)
- ^ "Bothroyd completes Cardiff move" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Cardiff City fans 30 questions to Peter Ridsdale" (South Wales Echo)
- ↑ Jay Bothroyd joins Queens Park Rangers on free transfer (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Jay Bothroyd out to silence critics" ( Memento of the original from August 13, 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. (Coventry Telegraph)
- ^ "England 1-2 France" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Bluebirds' boss Jones put on Ross alert" (South Wales Echo)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bothroyd, Jay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5th 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Islington , England |