Jermaine Beckford

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Jermaine Beckford
Beckford vs. Chelsea.jpg
Jermaine Beckford for Leeds United.
Personnel
Surname Jermaine Paul Alexander Beckford
birthday December 9, 1983
place of birth Ealing , London ,  England
size 188 cm
position Center Forward
Juniors
Years station
Walpole Wanderers
Chelsea FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2006 Wealdstone FC 82 (54)
2003-2004 → FC Uxbridge (loan) 8 0(2)
2006-2010 Leeds United 126 (72)
2006 →  Carlisle United  (loan) 4 0(1)
2007 →  Scunthorpe United  (loan) 18 0(8)
2010-2011 Everton FC 34 0(8)
2011-2013 Leicester City 43 0(9)
2013 →  Huddersfield Town  (loan) 21 0(8)
2013-2015 Bolton Wanderers 46 0(7)
2014-2015 →  Preston North End  (loan) 23 (12)
2015-2017 Preston North End 28 0(3)
2017– Bury FC 15 0(8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2013– Jamaica 6 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 12, 2018

2 As of March 12, 2018

Jermaine Paul Alexander Beckford (born December 9, 1983 in London ) is an English football player . The goal-scoring striker was part of the youth work of Chelsea FC , but could not initially recommend himself for higher tasks and played for several years in amateur football. In March 2006 he returned to the professional field, played for a good four years for the lower class Leeds United and has been under contract with FC Bury in Football League One since 2017 .

Career

Club soccer

Education & amateur football (2000-2006)

The first youth station for Beckford were the Walpole Wanderers, a little northwest of his homeland, from where he ended up in the youth department of the Premier League club Chelsea . There, however, he was not one of the most promising talents and so they parted ways when the training was finished. The dream of a professional career seemed to have burst so prematurely. Beckford went instead to regular activities outside of the sport and hired himself in the Isthmian League on a part-time basis for the regional amateur club Wealdstone FC . Even there, he was briefly loaned to Uxbridge FC before he began to score regularly for Wealdstone and stood out from the crowd as a scorer. With 35 goals from 40 games in the 2005/06 season, he made a lasting recommendation for a return to professional business and in March 2006 there was no shortage of interested parties. The center forward first completed a trial session at Crystal Palace before finally reaching an agreement with Leeds United - represented by coach Kevin Blackwell and ex-Chelsea President Ken Bates .

Leeds United (2006-2010)

The beginning in Leeds was slow at first. In the remaining league games of the 2005/06 season Beckford came only five substitutions and in the subsequent 2006/07 season he was in the "pecking order" behind David Healy , Richard Cresswell , Robbie Blake and Ian Moore . So the club decided in October 2006 to a one-month loan to the third division Carlisle United . There Beckford scored the first professional goal on his debut against Millwall FC (1: 2) and when his situation did not improve significantly after returning to Leeds, the next loan deal followed in January 2007. By the end of the 2006/07 season he went for Scunthorpe United, who are also active in the third division, on the hunt for goals and Beckford made a very good impression there. He formed an effective storm duo with Billy Sharp , scored eight league goals and helped Scunthorpe to rise to the second division.

From the 2007/08 season onwards, Beckford also started sporting in Leeds, which had meanwhile slipped into the third division. With 20 goals in the championship round, he was not only the second best shooter in the league, but also received the award for "best player". Due to an ankle injury, he missed the last four league games, but then returned to the play-off games, where he was ultimately defeated in the final with his men Doncaster Rovers . In the following season, 2008/09, Beckford seamlessly continued the previous year's performance and with his 34 competitive goals, a Leeds player surpassed the 30-goal mark for the first time since Lee Chapman in the 1990/91 season - it was also the best value since 1957 with the "legendary" John Charles . With his speed and agility, Beckford presented the third division competition with very big problems and the renewed award for "best player" (by means of the fan vote of the players' union PFA) was just as unsurprising as the election to the "team of the season". The longed-for promotion did not materialize, however, as Leeds failed again in the play-off games - now in the semi-finals against Millwall FC.

Another 30 goals followed in the 2009/10 season, which had initially started with disagreements. Beckford had refused to agree to an extension of the contract that expired at the end of the season and as a result the clubs put him on the transfer list and put him up for sale. After two unspecified offers were rejected, the club took its striker off the market in mid-July 2009. A change request, which Beckford himself expressed at the turn of the year, was dealt with just as quickly. Just four days later he made himself “immortal” with Leeds fans with his 1-0 winner in the FA Cup against Manchester United and Beckford stayed until the end of the season. It also ended positively with winning the runner-up and the associated promotion to the Football League Championship, as well as for Beckford with another award for best player.

Everton FC (2010-2011)

Jermaine Beckford, 2011

In May 2010 Beckford moved to Everton in the Premier League on a free transfer , where he signed a four-year contract. Then he made his first division debut against Blackburn Rovers on August 14, 2010 and in the following week against Wolverhampton Wanderers he was represented for the first time in the starting XI of the "Toffees". Another four days later the first competitive goal followed against Huddersfield Town in the League Cup with a penalty and in the Premier League finally burst in November 2010 with his “last minute goal” against Bolton Wanderers to make it 1-1. Overall, he finished his first season at the highest English level with eight league goals and ten competitive game goals in total.

Leicester City (since 2011)

On August 31, 2011 Beckford moved to the second division Leicester City .

International career

Beckford has not been considered for English national teams to date. Due to his Jamaican father and his mother's Grenadian descent, he would also be eligible to play for the national teams of Jamaica and Grenada .

On March 22, 2013, he made his senior international debut for Jamaica when he played in the 1-1 draw against Panama .

Title / Awards

  • Football League One : Player of the Year (3)
    • Election of the football association (2): 2008, 2010
    • Fan election of the players' union PFA (1): 2009
  • Football League One: Team of the Year (1): 2009
  • FA Cup top scorer : 2012

Web links

Commons : Jermaine Beckford  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ "Premier League clubs submit squad lists" (Premier League)
  2. ↑ Online sources often show 131 games for Leeds United when the five play-off games are included.
  3. ^ "Jermaine Beckford's long road from west London to Leeds' FA Cup hero" (Daily Mail)
  4. ↑ "How good is Jermaine Beckford?" (The Guardian)
  5. ↑ "Leeds win race to sign Beckford" (BBC Sport)
  6. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2006-07 . Mainstream Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-84596-111-0 , pp. 39 .
  7. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2007-08 . Mainstream Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84596-246-3 , pp. 39 .
  8. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2008-09 . Mainstream Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84596-324-8 , pp. 42 f .
  9. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009-10 . Mainstream Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84596-474-0 , pp. 39 .
  10. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010-11 . Mainstream Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84596-601-0 , pp. 38 .
  11. ^ "Everton sign former Leeds striker Jermaine Beckford" (BBC Sport)
  12. ↑ Jermaine Beckford leaves Everton for Leicester City (BBC Sport)
  13. ^ "Reggae Boyz eye Beckford" ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2011 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. (Jamaica Star) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jamaica-star.com
  14. ↑ Jamaica - Panama 1: 1 (1: 0) , fifa.com
  15. ↑ http://www.transfermarkt.de/fa-cup/torschuetzenliste/pokalwettbewerb/FAC/plus/0/galerie/0?saison_id=2011
personal data
SURNAME Beckford, Jermaine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckford, Jermaine Paul Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Ealing , London , England