Matthew Etherington
| Matthew Etherington | ||
 Matthew Etherington (2009)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | August 14, 1981 | |
| place of birth | Truro , Cornwall , England | |
| size | 178 cm | |
| position | Winger (left) | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1997-2000 | Peterborough United | 51 (6) |
| 2000-2003 | Tottenham Hotspur | 45 (1) |
| 2001 | → Bradford City (loan) | 13 (1) |
| 2003-2009 | West Ham United | 165 (16) |
| 2009-2014 | Stoke City | 152 (13) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| England U-21 | 3 (0) | |
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1 Only league games are given. As of November 5, 2014 |
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Matthew Etherington (born August 14, 1981 in Truro , Cornwall ) is an English football player who last played for Stoke City in the left midfield and as a left winger in the Premier League .
Athletic career
Etherington began his career in 1996 with the club Peterborough United and came in the 1996/97 season to a use in the third-rate Second Division . After two more games in the following season, he made his breakthrough in the 1998/99 season at the now fourth-class club with a total of 29 missions and three goals.
In 1999 he took part in the Junior World Cup in Nigeria for the England U-20 national team, where he played alongside Stuart Taylor , Ashley Cole , Peter Crouch and Andy Johnson . However, after the team failed to score a single goal in three games, England was eliminated from the tournament as bottom of the table after the preliminary round.
In January 2000, he and Simon Davies moved to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League for £ 700,000 . There he could not assert himself for a long time and was loaned to Bradford City in 2001 between October and December , where he came to 13 games - and one goal.
After he came a little more frequently in the following season at Tottenham Hotspur, he went to the second division for West Ham United for the 2002/03 season . In a swap, Frédéric Kanouté moved from West Ham to Tottenham, with the first division team paying a further £ 3.5 million transfer fee. Etherington completed the last season in the First Division and the first season in the then Football League Championship called the second highest English league. Already in the first season he won a regular place in his new club and was immediately voted the best player within the club. At the end of the 2003/04 season, he scored a goal during the 2-0 second leg win against Ipswich Town and helped his team move into the elimination game. There he lost 1-0 to Crystal Palace , but was able to make up for promotion in the following year 2005. In the final, he set up a cross from Bobby Zamora that ensured West Ham United's return to excellence. Even after the rise, Etherington remained mostly a regular in the team. On January 8, 2009, he then changed a new contract for around two million pounds at Stoke City , which binds him until the end of the 2011/12 season.
English national team
Before the start of the 2006 World Cup in Germany , his club coach Alan Pardew recommended him for the English national team in order to remedy the weakness suspected there in the left midfield position. The then English coach Sven-Göran Eriksson waived Etherington and instead called the left-footed Stewart Downing in the squad.
Web links
- Profile at Stoke City
- Matthew Etherington in the soccerbase.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Etherington completes Stoke move" (BBC Sport)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Etherington, Matthew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Truro , Cornwall , England |