Lee Hendrie

Lee Hendrie
Personnel
Surname	Lee Andrew Hendrie
birthday	May 18, 1977
place of birth	Birmingham ,  England
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1993-1995	Aston Villa
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1995-2007	Aston Villa	251 (27)
2006-2007	→  Stoke City  (loan)	17 0(3)
2007	→  Stoke City  (loan)	11 0(0)
2007-2009	Sheffield United	17 0(1)
2008	→  Leicester City  (loan)	9 0(1)
2008	→  Blackpool FC  (loan)	6 0(0)
2009–	Derby County	4 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1996-2000	England U-21	12 0(5)
1998	England B	1 0(0)
1998	England	1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of October 17, 2009

Lee Andrew Hendrie (born May 18, 1977 in Birmingham ) is a former English football player . The midfielder has been under contract with Derby County since September 2009 .

Career

Hendrie, who was born in Birmingham, started out playing for local Aston Villa . He is the son of Paul Hendrie , who was also a soccer player. He made his first professional appearance on October 23, 1995 on the occasion of the 0-1 defeat at the Queens Park Rangers . He won the club's internal award for the best young player of the season in the 1997/98 season. On November 18, 1998, he also played his only A international match for the English national team against the Czech Republic .

Over time, however, his progress slowed and a series of red cards stopped his initially promising career until he finally gave him a second chance in 2003 with David O'Leary, the new coach of the "Villans". After losing his regular seat again in the 2005/06 season, it looked like Hendrie's time at Aston Villa was nearing its end as Portsmouth FC showed interest in signing Hendries. Since the transfer did not materialize during the transition period in summer 2006, Hendrie was loaned to Stoke City on September 29, 2006 instead . On January 30, 2007, the loan period was extended to the end of the 2006/07 season.

On July 19, 2007 Hendrie moved to Sheffield United on a free transfer , where he signed a 3-year contract. On January 12, 2008, he scored the first goal for his new club. A month later, however, it was "on the road" again and between February and April 2008 Hendrie helped out at Leicester City . Before the start of the 2008/09 season he had come back to Sheffield regularly, but then moved again on loan between November 2008 and the end of the year - now to Blackpool FC . In the next season he moved to Derby County in exchange with Jordan Stewart .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Stoke complete Hendrie loan deal" (BBC Sport)

Web links

• Lee Hendrie in the soccerbase.com database
• Profile on englandfootballonline.com