Kane Ashcroft

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Kane Ashcroft
Personnel
Surname Kane John Ashcroft
birthday March 19, 1986
place of birth Leeds ,  England
date of death October 8, 2015
Place of death Leeds ,  England
position Midfield (central)
Juniors
Years station
Sheffield Wednesday
2002-2005 York city
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2005 York city 4 (0)
2006–? Tadcaster Albion
East End Park
1 Only league games are given.

Kane John Ashcroft (born March 19, 1986 in Leeds , † October 8, 2015 ) was an English football player .

Career

Ashcroft was among the youth field Sheffield Wednesday to before as the summer of 2002 Trainee (dt. Trainee) to York City came. When the club's relegation from the Football League was already determined at the end of the 2003/04 season , Ashcroft under player-coach Chris Brass came on the penultimate matchday against Leyton Orient by substitution for his competitive debut and just missed a goal with his first ball contact. On the last day of the match he was at the side of numerous other young players against Swansea City (final score 0-0) in the starting line-up. In November 2004 he moved under interim coach Viv Busby instead of the suspended Darren Dunning again in the midfield center in the starting line-up in the fifth-rate Football Conference . After a 2-1 win against Carlisle United , he was also part of the starting line-up in the following game against Halifax Town , but then fell out of the team again due to an injury. From Busby's successor Billy McEwan , he was not offered a contract at the end of the season and left the club.

In October 2006 he was introduced as a new signing to Tadcaster Albion in the Northern Counties East Football League . He then played in local football from Leeds for East End Park , with the team he won the division 2 championship of the West Yorkshire League and the West Riding County Challenge Trophy in 2007/08 .

Ashcroft worked as a sales consultant in a plumbing, heating and air conditioning shop in his home town of Morley . Ashcroft was diagnosed with testicular cancer in October 2014 . A chemotherapy and surgical intervention were unsuccessful, in October 2015 he died 29-year as a result of cancer of kidney failure in the St James's University Hospital in Leeds . The wake of the Leeds United fans were in the stadium Elland Road in the Gary Speed Suite held. He left behind his wife and a three year old son.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kane Ashcroft in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ yorkpress.co.uk: New red brigade (March 23, 2002) , accessed May 1, 2019
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2004/2005 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2004, ISBN 1-85291-660-5 , pp. 27 .
  4. ↑ yorkpress.co.uk: Strike out (May 10, 2004) , accessed May 1, 2019
  5. ↑ yorkpress.co.uk: Ashcroft to join City's youth club (November 26, 2004) , accessed May 1, 2019
  6. ↑ yorkpress.co.uk: Dazz agrees to shut it (February 5, 2005) , accessed May 1, 2019
  7. ↑ yorkpress.co.uk: Former York City midfielder Kane Ashcroft timeless battle against cancer at 29 (10 October 2015) , accessed on May 1, 2019
  8. ↑ yorkpress.co.uk: Albion snap up Ashcroft (October 20, 2006) , accessed May 1, 2019
  9. ↑ eep.webeden.co.uk: East End Park AFC - Club History , accessed May 1, 2019
  10. ↑ a b yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk: Cancer death of 29-year-old Leeds United fan: Wife fundraising in ex-footballer's memory (May 18, 2018) , accessed May 1, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ashcroft, Kane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ashcroft, Kane John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2015
Place of death Leeds