Mark Little (soccer player)

Mark Little
Personnel
birthday	20th August 1988
place of birth	Worcester ,  England
size	185 cm
position	Full-back
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2010	Wolverhampton Wanderers	27 (0)
2008	→  Northampton Town  (loan)	17 (0)
2008	→ Northampton Town (loan)	9 (0)
2009-2010	→  Chesterfield FC  (loan)	12 (0)
2010	→  Peterborough United  (loan)	9 (0)
2010-2014	Peterborough United	148 (3)
2014-2017	Bristol City	88 (1)
2017-2019	Bolton Wanderers	30 (1)
2019–	Bristol Rovers	11 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2006-2007	England U-19	6 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: February 16, 2020

Mark Little (born August 20, 1988 in Worcester ) is an English football player .

Athletic career

The young Mark Little began his football career at the Wolverhampton Wanderers academy and was part of the youth team that made it to the FA Youth Cup semi- finals in 2005. On his 17th birthday, he signed the first professional contract, which was endowed for three years, and developed into a regular in the reserve team in the 2005/06 season. In April 2006 he sat on the substitute bench of the professional team for the first time, but was not used for the time being.

The next development steps followed in the 2006/07 season. Against Chesterfield FC Little completed on August 23, 2006 in the League Cup, his first competitive game for the first team (0-0); on September 10, 2006, the new coach Mick McCarthy changed him in a second division game against Leeds United (1-0) on the position of left defender for the first time. With a total of 26 league appearances, he finally established himself as a right full-back between November 2006 and early February 2007. In addition, Little was permanently represented in the English U-19 team during this time, having previously played for the U-17 and U-18 teams.

In the 2007/08 season, the signing of the Irish Kevin Foley ensured that Little was permanently denied the right back and so the "Wolves" decided in January 2008 to borrow their own junior player. The goal was the third division Northampton Town and initially one month became a loan period of three months. After his return, he was still denied access to the Profielf in Wolverhampton, so that the "Cobblers" between October and November 2008 again on loan to Little's services. In the promotion season 2008/09 Little was represented in any competitive game with the "Wolves", for which a knee injury was partly responsible, which he suffered during his second time in Northampton and put him out of action by the end of February 2009 after an operation. Even at the beginning of the 2009/10 season Little could not prevail in the first team and so the club loaned him from October 2009 to the turn of the year to the fourth division club Chesterfield . In March 2010 followed with the second division relegation candidate Peterborough United, the next loan period and after the end of the 2009/10 season he was hired there despite relegation to the third-rate Football League One by a new three-year contract.

Little moved to Bristol City on June 25, 2014 .

Web links

• Mark Little in the soccerbase.com database
• Profile at Wolverhampton Wanderers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Little By Little" ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (wolves.co.uk) 
2. ↑ "Mark Little joins Chesterfield" ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Chesterfield FC) 
3. ^ "Wolves defender Mark Little makes Peterborough switch" (BBC Sport)