Martin Aldridge

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Martin Aldridge
Personnel
Surname Martin James Aldridge
birthday December 6, 1974
place of birth Northampton ,  England
date of death January 30, 2000
Place of death Oxford ,  England
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
Coventry City
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Ford Sports Daventry
1993-1995 Northampton Town 70 (17)
1995 →  Dagenham & Redbridge  (loan) 3 0(1)
1995-1998 Oxford United 72 (19)
1998 →  Southend United  (loan) 11 0(1)
1998-2000 Blackpool FC 27 0(7)
1999 →  Port Vale  (loan) 3 0(0)
2000 →  Rushden & Diamonds  (loan) 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Martin James Aldridge (born December 6, 1974 in Northampton , † January 30, 2000 in Oxford ) was an English football player . The striker played 183 games in the Football League from 1993 for a number of lower class English professional clubs , scoring 44 goals. He was killed in a car accident in January 2000.

Career

Aldridge was active during his school days at Coventry City , but was fired there before his 16th birthday. He then played for Ford Sports Daventry in the United Counties League and the recreational team Braunston Rangers before coming to Northampton Town as a junior player . In the summer of 1993 he received his first professional contract there and scored 17 goals in 70 missions in the Football League Third Division in his first two seasons , including the first competitive goal in the newly opened Sixfields Stadium on October 15, 1994 .

After he was no longer considered in the first half of the 1995/96 season, he moved to Oxford United in December for free in the Second Division . There he should compensate for the departure of Wayne Biggins . After two goals in his debut game against Brentford FC (final score 2: 1), he added seven more goals in 17 games in the following months before an injury caused the season to end prematurely. Oxford, meanwhile, managed to rise to the First Division as second in the table .

In the following second division season 1996/97 he was at Oxford with Paul Moody in the competition for the forward position at the side of Nigel Jemson . Also in the second highest English division Aldridge distinguished himself as a regular goalscorer and scored a hat trick in a 4-1 win against Sheffield United within 20 minutes. Aldridge, who celebrated most of his goals with a backflip, also developed his long throw-ins, which were used as an offensive variant, this season. In December 1997, the previous coach Denis Smith left the financially troubled club, he was followed by Malcolm Shotton , under whom Aldridge no longer played a role and who did not renew his expiring contract at the end of the season.

Aldridge, who often lurked in the penalty area for ricochets, found a new club in third division club Blackpool . Although Aldridge missed almost half of the season due to injury problems, he was the club's top scorer with ten competitive goals in the 1998/99 season. The following season, the striker with Blackpool trainer threw Nigel Worthington and spent time on loan at Port Vale before the career people in January 2000 and Rushden Diamonds in the Conference National was awarded. There he had attended a 6-0 victory as a substitute on January 29, 2000 when he collided with an oncoming car on the way home at Wellingborough . He died of his injuries the following day in an Oxford hospital .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1996, ISBN 1-85291-571-4 , pp. 11 .
  2. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1997-98 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1997, ISBN 1-85291-581-1 , pp. 11 .
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1998, ISBN 1-85291-588-9 , pp. 12 .
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1999, ISBN 1-85291-607-9 , pp. 11 .
  5. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Footballer dies in car crash (Jan. 31, 2000)
personal data
SURNAME Aldridge, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aldridge, Martin James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Northampton
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2000
Place of death Oxford