John Carew (soccer player)
| John Carew | ||
 John Carew (2008)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | John Alieu Carew | |
| birthday | 5th September 1979 | |
| place of birth | Lørenskog , Norway | |
| size | 196 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Lørenskog IF | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1997 | Lørenskog IF | |
| 1997-1999 | Vålerenga IF | 43 (19) |
| 1999 | → Rosenborg Trondheim (loan) | 7 (10) |
| 2000 | Rosenborg Trondheim | 10 (9) |
| 2000-2004 | Valencia CF | 84 (20) |
| 2003-2004 | → AS Roma (loan) | 20 (6) |
| 2004-2005 | Beşiktaş Istanbul | 24 (13) |
| 2005-2007 | Olympique Lyon | 35 (10) |
| 2007-2011 | Aston Villa | 113 (37) |
| 2011 | → Stoke City (loan) | 10 (1) |
| 2011–2012 | West Ham United | 19 (2) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| Norway U-15 | 7 (5) | |
| Norway U-16 | 2 (2) | |
| Norway U-17 | 3 (1) | |
| Norway U18 | 5 (5) | |
| Norway U-21 | 24 (8) | |
| 1998-2011 | Norway | 91 (24) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
John Alieu Carew (born September 5, 1979 in Lørenskog ) is a former Norwegian football player and actor .
Carew is the son of a Gambier and a Norwegian. He won the Norwegian Cup in 1997 with Vålerenga IF and in 1999 with Rosenborg Trondheim Norwegian Champion. From Trondheim he went to Valencia CF in 2000 , with whom he became Spanish champion and was in the final of the Champions League . In 2003 he moved to Italy on loan to AS Roma and in 2004 to the Turkish club Beşiktaş Istanbul , and in 2005 to Olympique Lyon . In the winter break of 2006/07 he moved to Aston Villa in exchange with Milan Baroš . During the 2010/11 winter break he was loaned to Stoke City until the end of the 2010/11 season. In August 2011, Carew was signed by West Ham United ; there his contract ran out at the end of the 2011/12 season.
Carew made 91 senior international matches for Norway from 1998 to 2011 , in which he scored 24 goals. With the national team he took part in the 2000 European Football Championship .
He was awarded the Karoline Prize in 1999 and the Kniksen Prize in 2005, 2007 and 2008 as the best Norwegian footballer .
From 2018 to 2019 he played in two seasons of the Norwegian series Heimebane, a football player who was about to end his career.
Web links
- John Carew in the soccerbase.com database
- John Carew in the database of weltfussball.de
- Data according to Footballdatabase.com (engl.)
- John Carew in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Carew, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carew, John Alieu (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian soccer player and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th September 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lørenskog , Norway |