Michael Higdon

Michael Higdon
Michael Higdon in the jersey of FC St. Mirren (2011)
Personnel
birthday	2nd September 1983
place of birth	Liverpool ,  England
size	186 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2002	Crewe Alexandra
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2007	Crewe Alexandra	81 (10)
2007-2009	FC Falkirk	62 (15)
2009-2011	FC St. Mirren	61 (18)
2011-2013	Motherwell FC	72 (40)
2013-2014	NEC Nijmegen	32 (14)
2014-2016	Sheffield United	15 0(2)
2015	→  Oldham Athletic  (loan)	11 0(5)
2016–	Tranmere Rovers	9 0(2)
1 Only league games are given. As of December 7, 2014

Michael Higdon (born September 2, 1983 in Liverpool ) is an English football player . Known above all for his physical strength and the powerful shot, Higdon has been a striker since the beginning of his career. With 26 goals he was elected top scorer in the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Footballer of the Year in the 2012/13 season .

Career

Michael Higdon began playing football at Crewe Alexandra . With the club's U-14s, he won the Milk Cup when it was held in 1998. Higdon made his debut for the first team of the railway workers in the 2003/04 second division season against Crystal Palace in December 2003 when he came on for Dean Ashton . Higdon scored his first goal as a professional in April of the following year in the game against Coventry City , when he marked the interim opening goal in the 3-1 home win at Alexandra Stadium . In the following two years he was able to achieve three goals per season. Nevertheless, he rose with Crewe at the end of the 2005/06 season from the championship to Football League One . After a season in League One with Alexandra, which ended with a 13th place in the table, Higdon moved to the Scottish club FC Falkirk on a free transfer . In the very first league game for the new club, which is based in the Midland Valley in southern Scotland, the attacker scored a brace against FC Gretna . By the end of the 2007/08 season he scored eight more goals. In the last game of the 2008/09 season he saved Falkirk from relegation to the First Division when he scored the 1-0 winner against direct rivals Inverness Caledonian Thistle . At the beginning of the new 2009/10 season , Higdon moved to FC St. Mirren , who was placed behind Falkirk in the table last year. With the club from Paisley Higdon lost in the final of the Scottish League Cup 2009/10 with 0: 1 to the Glasgow Rangers through a goal from Kenny Miller . After two seasons with a total of 61 league games and 18 goals for the Saints , he moved to Motherwell FC . For the ambitious Scottish first division club, Higdon made his debut on matchday 1 2011/12 against Inverness Caledonian Thistle in Fir Park . Just a month after signing with Stuart McCall's team , the striker scored Motherwell's first goal in the league cup against FC Clyde , and three days later in the Premier League against Dunfermline Athletic the first two league goals . In February 2012 he was able to mark his first hat trick of his career against Hibernian Edinburgh . In the 2012/13 season he was the top scorer in the Scottish Premier League with 26 goals this season, ahead of Leigh Griffiths and Billy McKay . As the second Englishman after Gary Hooper and the last player ever, as the league will be played as the Scottish Premiership from the 2013/14 season . With Motherwell he was only runner- up behind Celtic Glasgow , but was able to win the award for Scotland's Footballer of the Year . In July 2013, Higdon surprisingly signed a two-year contract with NEC Nijmegen from the Dutch Eredivisie . For the club, Higdon scored 14 goals in 32 games, but could not prevent relegation at the end of the season. In August 2014 he sold this to Sheffield United from his English homeland, where he received a two-year contract.

successes

In the club

with Crewe Alexandra:

• Milk Cup : 1998 (U-14)

Individually

• Scotland's Footballer of the Year : 2013
• Top scorer : Scottish Premier League 2012/13

Individual evidence

1. ^ Crewe's Higdon signs for Falkirk. BBC Sport, June 14, 2007, accessed March 24, 2014 . 
2. ↑ St. Mirren sign up striker Higdon. BBC Sport, June 24, 2009, accessed March 24, 2014 . 
3. ↑ St. Mirren 0: 1 (0: 0) Rangers. BBC Sport, March 21, 2010, accessed March 24, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Michael Higdon completes move to Motherwell. BBC Sport, June 3, 2011, accessed March 24, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Motherwell 3: 0 (2: 0) Inverness CT. BBC Sport, July 23, 2011, accessed March 24, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Clyde 0: 4 (0: 2) Motherwell. BBC Sport, August 24, 2011, accessed March 24, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Dunfermline 2: 4 (0: 2) Motherwell. BBC Sport, August 27, 2011, accessed March 24, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Motherwell 4: 3 (0: 1) Hibernian. BBC Sport, February 22, 2012, accessed March 24, 2014 . 
9. ↑ NEC ties topscorer Schotse Premier League. (No longer available online.) Voetbalprimeur.nl, July 8, 2013, archived from the original on March 24, 2014 ; Retrieved March 24, 2014 (Dutch). 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.  
10. ↑ NEC amplifies team with top scorer Michael Higdon. (No longer available online.) Nec-nijmegen.nl, July 8, 2013, archived from the original on March 24, 2014 ; Retrieved March 24, 2014 (Dutch). 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.  
11. ↑ Blades delight at striker capture. sufc.co.uk, August 4, 2014, accessed August 4, 2014 . 

Web links

• Michael Higdon in the soccerbase.com database
• Michael Higdon in the soccerway.com database
• Michael Higdon in the database of weltfussball.de