Kris Boyd

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Kris Boyd
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Kris Boyd
Personnel
birthday August 18, 1983
place of birth Irvine ,  Scotland
size 185 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
FC Kilmarnock
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2005 FC Kilmarnock 153 0(64)
2006-2010 Glasgow Rangers 143 (101)
2010-2011 Middlesbrough FC 27 00(6)
2011 →  Nottingham Forest  (loan) 10 00(6)
2011 Eskişehirspor 2 00(0)
2012 Portland Timbers 26 00(7)
2013-2014 FC Kilmarnock 44 0(25)
2014-2015 Glasgow Rangers 31 00(3)
2015-2019 FC Kilmarnock 109 0(33)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2006-2010 Scotland 18 00(7)
1 Only league games are given.

Kris Boyd (born August 18, 1983 in Irvine , North Ayrshire ) is a retired Scottish football player .

Career

society

Boyd started his professional career at FC Kilmarnock . On the last day of the 2000/01 season in the Scottish Premier League , he made his competitive debut against Celtic Glasgow . In the following season he fought for a regular place and in 2003 received the Kilmarnock Young Player of the Year award .

Boyd scored all five goals in a 5-2 win against Dundee United in September 2005 and this Scottish Premier League record brought him to the attention of English clubs. However, the Cardiff City and Sheffield Wednesday offers were turned down and Boyd stayed with Kilmarnock.

On January 1, 2006, he moved to the Glasgow Rangers . When switching, he unusually foregoed half of the 40,000 pounds that FC Kilmarnock had to pay him as a youth player bonus. In his first game for the new club, a cup game in the Scottish FA Cup against FC Peterhead , he managed a hat trick . He scored a total of 20 goals in the 17 league games in the second half of the season. Since he previously scored 17 goals for Kilmarnock, Boyd was top scorer with a total of 37, the first player to do so with two clubs.

In the following seasons Boyd was one of the top scorer in the league. In the 2008/2009 season, the Rangers striker secured the title of top scorer again with 27 goals in 35 games (rate: 0.77 goals / game).

On December 30, 2009 Boyd scored five goals for the second time in a game against Dundee United (final score 7-1 for the Rangers).

In the 2009/2010 season Boyd was the league's top scorer with 26 goals. On May 28, 2010, the Rangers announced that he would not renew his expiring contract.

On July 5, 2010 he signed with the English second division club Middlesbrough FC . During the season he moved on March 8, 2011 on loan to league rivals Nottingham Forest , who were also starting in the Football League Championship 2010/11 , and scored six goals in ten league games by the end of the season.

From the 2011/12 season Boyd played for the Turkish first division club Eskişehirspor . He signed a three-year contract on July 8, 2011. This was ended by Boyd on December 19, 2011, as he said he was never paid. In total, he was only 76 minutes on the pitch for Eskişehirspor.

After he turned down an offer from Houston Dynamo on January 23, 2012 , he moved to the Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer on January 30 . Houston still held the rights to negotiate with him within the MLS, to compensate the Texans got a first-round pick at the MLS SuperDraft 2013. From 2013 to 2014 he was back under contract in Scotland when he was in the second half of the 2012 season / 13 had signed with FC Kilmarnock and scored three goals in eight games. In the following season he was in the jersey of Killie with 22 goals together with John Sutton second in the scorers list behind Kris Commons of champions Celtic Glasgow .

In June 2014 he moved to the Glasgow Rangers for whom he had already played from 2006 to 2010. Already after a season in which the promotion to the Scottish Premiership was missed, Boyd moved back to Kilmarnock FC .

National team

On May 11, 2006 Boyd made his debut in the Scottish national team against Bulgaria . He scored two goals in a 5-1 win.

On October 11, 2008, Kris Boyd announced that he would no longer make any international matches under the coach of the Scottish national team, George Burley .

His decision came after the World Cup qualifier against Norway. He was put on the bench and newcomer Chris Iwelumo played instead . After the game, the coach stated that Kris had not shown enough performance with the Rangers. After hearing the comment, Boyd contacted Burley and Gordon Smith, the Chief Executive of the Scottish Football Association, and announced that he was retiring from the national team. At a press conference, Burley hinted that the door to the national team is not completely closed for Boyd. It would be his decision, but he could come back anytime.

After Burley was fired and Craig Levein took over as coach of the national team, Boyd announced that he would play for Scotland again. He was called up on February 22, 2010 in the squad for the friendly against the Czech Republic on March 3 and was substituted on in the second half.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ transfermarkt.de
  2. ↑ http://www.rangers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/matchreports/0,,5,00.html (link not available)
  3. ↑ Boyd finalises Boro move , Sky Sports. 5th July 2010. 
  4. ↑ Jonathan Sutherland: Kris Boyd moves from Middlesbrough to Eskisehirspor , BBC Sport. July 8, 2011. 
  5. ↑ a b Boyd leaving Turkey . In: Sky Sports , Sky Sports, December 19, 2011. 
  6. ↑ Ed Casey: Kris Boyd told to improve or Turkish dream could become a nightmare . In: Daily Record , Trinity Mirror , November 26, 2011. 
  7. ↑ Darrell Lovell: Scottish striker Boyd passes on chance with Dynamo . Retrieved January 31, 2012.
  8. ↑ Timbers sign Designated Player Kris Boyd ( Memento from September 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Dynamo, Timbers agree to terms of trade . Houston Dynamo. January 30, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  10. ^ Paul Barnes: Kilmarnock re-sign striker Kris Boyd until end of the season. BBC Sport, February 23, 2013, accessed June 27, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Neil Smith: Boyd is Back. (No longer available online.) Rangers.co.uk, June 27, 2014, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on June 27, 2014 (English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rangers.co.uk
  12. ↑ Kris Boyd: Kilmarnock sign striker for a third spell at club. BC Sport, June 29, 2015, accessed June 29, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Boyd 'ready' for Scotland return . In: BBC Sport , December 29, 2009. Retrieved December 30, 2009. 
  14. ^ Injured keeper Allan McGregor omitted from Scots squad , BBC Sport. February 22, 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2010. 
personal data
SURNAME Boyd, Kris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Irvine