Mark Philo
| Mark Philo | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Mark William Philo | |
| birthday | 5th October 1984 | |
| place of birth | Bracknell , England | |
| date of death | January 14, 2006 | |
| Place of death | Reading , England | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | right midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Wycombe Wanderers | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2003-2006 | Wycombe Wanderers | 17 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Mark William Philo (born October 5, 1984 in Bracknell , † January 14, 2006 in Reading ) was an English football player.
Career
Philo went through the youth department of the Wycombe Wanderers and reached in the 2001/02 season with the U-19 the fifth round of the FA Youth Cup , the best result in the history of the club. In the summer of 2003 he received his first professional contract and made his debut under coach Tony Adams in February 2004 in the Football League Second Division . By the end of the season Philo had twelve appearances, mostly in the right midfield; to three of his four starting eleven appearances this season, he brought it on the last three game days, when relegation to Football League Two was already certain. In a preparatory game for the following season, he suffered a broken ankle, which threw the young player back, and only made his comeback in March 2005 possible. As in the previous season, he was again in the starting line-up on the last match days of the season, but suffered a stress fracture in the last game of the season that again kept him away from the action for several months. Nevertheless, his performance moved the club officials to equip him with a new contract. Philo came in the 2005/06 season to two appearances in the Football League Trophy and was trying to catch up with the team when he was killed on January 14, 2006 in a car accident.
As the investigation into the accident showed, Philo had sat behind the wheel of his car after a pub crawl with 1.2 per thousand blood alcohol and had collided with an oncoming car in Finchampstead near Wokingham after he had hit the oncoming lane. While the driver of the other vehicle was still dying at the scene of the accident, Philo was admitted to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading with serious injuries , to which he died that afternoon. The Wycombe Wanderers blocked his shirt with the number 14 after his death, which has not been awarded since then.
Web links
- Mark Philo in the soccerbase.com database
- Photo gallery on chairboys.ndirect.co.uk
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2005/2006 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2005, ISBN 1-85291-662-1 , pp. 323 .
- ↑ getreading.co.uk: Boozy footballer blamed for death (May 30, 2006)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Philo, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Philo, Mark William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th October 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bracknell |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 2006 |
| Place of death | Reading |