Jonathan Walters
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 Jonathan Walters (2013)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Jonathan Ronald Walters | |
| birthday | 20th September 1983 | |
| place of birth | Birkenhead , England | |
| size | 183 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| -2001 | Blackburn Rovers | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2001-2004 | Bolton Wanderers | 4 (0) |
| 2003 | → Hull City (loan) | 11 (5) |
| 2003 | → Crewe Alexandra (loan) | 0 (0) |
| 2003-2004 | → Barnsley FC (loan) | 8 (0) |
| 2004-2005 | Hull City | 37 (2) |
| 2005 | → Scunthorpe United (loan) | 3 (0) |
| 2005-2006 | Wrexham FC | 38 (5) |
| 2006-2007 | Chester City | 26 (9) |
| 2007-2010 | Ipswich Town | 136 (30) |
| 2010-2017 | Stoke City | 226 (43) |
| 2017-2019 | Burnley FC | 3 (0) |
| 2018 | → Ipswich Town (loan) | 3 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2010-2018 | Ireland | 54 (14) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Jonathan Ronald "Jon" Walters (born September 20, 1983 in Birkenhead , England ) is a former English - Irish football player .
Career
Jon Walters started with Blackburn Rovers and moved to Bolton Wanderers after his youth in 2001 . In the 2002/03 season he played four times in the Premier League team, but it wasn't enough for a breakthrough and so he was loaned to several clubs the following year. One of them, Hull City , signed him from 2004. He went to Wrexham FC and Chester City every year and although he was regularly used at every club, he only found a longer-term stay at Ipswich Town in 2007 .
He had his breakthrough in the 2007/08 season when he scored 13 goals in 40 games for the second division. In the following two years, the striker was then a fixture on the offensive of the club from the port city in the east of England.
In 2010 the first division club Stoke City showed an interest in signing Walters. This time he immediately prevailed in the Premier League and was regularly used as a second tip or as a winger. Although the team reached only one place in midfield in the league in the 2010/11 season , they made it to the final in the FA Cup , in which he was involved with five cup goals. Despite the final defeat against Manchester City , they qualified for the Europa League the following year, which brought Walters to his first international appearances in club football. By the time he was eliminated in the round of 32, he played ten times and scored two goals.
Against Chelsea in January 2013, he was a double own goal scorer and missed a penalty. So he put his team on the losing track.
In March 2019, he announced the end of his career after long-lasting problems with his Achilles tendon .
National team
Like several of his colleagues on the Irish national team , Jon Walters is English by birth, but is also allowed to play for Ireland due to his Irish ancestry. After moving to Stoke City, national coach Giovanni Trapattoni showed interest and invited him to a friendly against Norway. On November 17, 2010, he made his national team debut in the second half.
However, it took another year before he was used in the decisive games for qualifying for the 2012 European Football Championship . In the play-off game in Estonia, he contributed a goal to the decisive 4-0 away win. He then played twice in the preliminary phase of the EM and was added to Ireland 's squad at the end of May 2012 . On November 16, 2015, Walters scored both goals, in the 24th minute (penalty) and in the 70th minute in the decisive 2-0 win in the European Championship play-off second leg against Bosnia-Herzegovina.
At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in Ireland's squad. In the first game against Sweden he was on the starting line-up. After that, he was no longer used in the group stage. He came into play a second time in the round of 16 when opponents France had taken a 2-1 lead from a 0-1 deficit with a double strike. After being substituted on, his team was outnumbered by a dismissal and could not avert the defeat.
Web links
- UEFA profile and statistics ( Memento of June 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Jon Walters in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Jon Walters in the database of transfermarkt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/intligen/england/barclays-premier-league/2012-13/22/1436177/livematch_stoke-city-1913_fc-chelsea-505.html
- ↑ bbc.com: Jonathan Walters: Former Burnley and Republic of Ireland forward on retirement (March 27, 2019) , accessed March 29, 2019
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Walters, Jonathan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walters, Jon; Walters, Jonathan Ronald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English-Irish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birkenhead , England |