Lee Grant (soccer player, 1985)

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Lee Grant
Personnel
Surname Lee Mark Grant
birthday December 31, 1985
place of birth York ,  England
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
1996-2002 York city
2002-2005 Aston Villa
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2002 York city 1 (0)
2002-2005 Aston Villa (Youth)
2004-2005 →  York City  (loan) 8 (2)
2006 Southport FC 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002 England U18 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Lee Mark Grant (born December 31, 1985 in York ) is a former English football player .

Career

Originally from Strensall , Grant was a member of the Center of Excellence in York City for six years during his school years and was appointed to the squad of the professional team for the final day of the 2001/02 season . Grant was still a student at the Huntington School at the time and was preparing for his GCSE exams. A job was only possible with a special permit from his school. In the game against Bristol Rovers , he made his debut a few minutes before the end by substituting and was the second youngest competitive debutant in the club's history at 16 years and 107 days after RegStock .

Originally, Grant was supposed to receive a three-year training contract with York City in the summer of 2002 after graduating from school, but Grant ultimately decided to switch to an offer in the junior division of the first division club Aston Villa ; York received £ 50,000 in compensation instead. Grant's development did not go unnoticed by those in charge of the English association and in November 2002 he played with the U18 team in a 3-0 defeat in Limoges against his French peers . In 2004 Grant stood alongside later national players such as Gary Cahill , Gabriel Agbonlahor and Jamie Ward with Aston Villa in the final of the FA Youth Cup , but the offspring of FC Middlesbrough proved to be too strong in the final.

In November 2004, Grant , who played mostly in the central defensive position , returned for a few months on loan to his youth club, which had meanwhile been relegated to the fifth-rate Football Conference , and came alongside numerous former teammates from his youth, including Bryan Stewart , Michael Staley, Sean Davies and David Stockdale , to eight league appearances in which he scored two goals. Grant last played in early 2006 for relegation-threatened fifth division club Southport and was used in a regional cup game, but a long-term commitment did not materialize and he left the club in February 2006. No other career stations are known, in April 2006 he made headlines at a local amateur golf tournament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lee Grant in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ yorkpress.co.uk: City chief Grant's Lee big wish (Apr. 17, 2002) , accessed April 2, 2018
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2002/2003 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2002, ISBN 1-85291-648-6 , pp. 165 .
  4. ^ Bbc.co.uk: York 3-0 Bristol R (April 16, 2002) , accessed April 2, 2018
  5. ↑ yorkpress.co.uk: Teenage kicks (Apr. 15, 2002) , accessed April 2, 2018
  6. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Grant switches to Villa (July 1, 2002) , accessed April 2, 2018
  7. ↑ skysports.com: Villa win Grant race , accessed April 2, 2018
  8. ↑ a b yorkpress.co.uk: Youth plan key for City future (Nov. 13, 2004) , accessed on April 2, 2018
  9. ↑ Glenda Rollin, Jack Rollin (Eds.): Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2003-2004 . Headline Publishing Group, London 2003, ISBN 0-7553-1228-7 , pp. 902 .
  10. ↑ yorkpress.co.uk: Staley bridges gap as City exit (May 7, 2004) , accessed April 2, 2018
  11. ↑ a b yorkpress.co.uk: Mixed fortunes for York City's teen debuts (Nov. 27, 2010) , accessed April 2, 2018
  12. ↑ yorkpress.co.uk: Grant me a longer stay - Lee (Dec. 1, 2004) , accessed April 2, 2018
  13. ↑ southportfootballclub.co.uk: Lee Grant , accessed on 25 March 2018
  14. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Stringfellow returns to Morecambe (Feb. 7, 2006) , accessed April 2, 2018
  15. ↑ yorkpress.co.uk: Grant triumph in vain (Apr. 8, 2006) , accessed March 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Grant, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grant, Lee Mark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH York