Michael Gray (soccer player)
| Michael Gray | ||
 Michael Gray in 2014
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | 3rd August 1974 | |
| place of birth | Sunderland , England | |
| size | 170 cm | |
| position | Full-back , midfield (left) | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1988-1990 | Manchester United | |
| 1990-1992 | Sunderland AFC | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1992-2004 | Sunderland AFC | 363 (16) |
| 2003 | → Celtic Glasgow (loan) | 7 (0) |
| 2004-2007 | Blackburn Rovers | 64 (0) |
| 2005 | → Leeds United (loan) | 10 (0) |
| 2007 | → Leeds United (loan) | 6 (0) |
| 2007-2009 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 41 (4) |
| 2009 | → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) | 4 (0) |
| 2009-2010 | Sheffield Wednesday | 39 (2) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1999 | England | 3 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Michael Gray (born August 3, 1974 in Sunderland ) is a former English football player .
Career
The left defender began his football career with the Castle View School school team. After very successful games, he went to the youth team of Manchester United and later to the youth of Sunderland AFC . At the beginning of the 1997/98 season he came to the first team. Early in the 2003/04 season, Gray moved to the Celtic Glasgow in the Scottish First Division. In the middle of the 2003/04 season he went back to the south of the British Isles and moved to the Blackburn Rovers for the first time . After half a year with the Rovers, he went to Leeds United for a year . Since the beginning of the 2005/06 season he has been playing again with the Blackburn Rovers, a year later he was loaned again by Leeds, before he finally left the Rovers in 2007 and hired for the Wolverhampton Wanderers . Before his resignation in May 2010, he had last played since January 2009 for about 1½ years for the second division team Sheffield Wednesday .
Gray played three games for the English national football team in 1999 . He made his debut under Kevin Keegan on April 28, 1999 as a substitute on the occasion of the 1-1 draw against Hungary . This was followed in early June 1999 two last international matches against the Swedish national football team (0-0) and Bulgaria (1: 1), where he was in the last-mentioned game in the regular formation. It was noteworthy that Gray, as a second division player at the time, remained the last field player below the English top division for a long time until David Nugent followed suit in 2007.
Web links
- Michael Gray in the soccerbase.com database
- Profile at Sheffield Wednesday
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Wolves win race for defender Gray” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Owls ace calls it quits" ( memento of the original from March 29, 2012 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. (Sheffield Wednesday)
- ↑ "England Players - Michael Gray" (englandfootballonline.com)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gray, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd August 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sunderland |