Nicky Shorey

Nicky Shorey
Nicky Shorey in the jersey of Aston Villa (2009)
Personnel
Surname	Nicholas Shorey
birthday	19th February 1981
place of birth	Romford ,  England
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
1998-1999	Leyton Orient
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2001	Leyton Orient	15 0(0)
2001-2008	Reading FC	267 (12)
2008-2010	Aston Villa	24 0(0)
2009-2010	→  Nottingham Forest  (loan)	9 0(0)
2010	→  Fulham FC  (loan)	9 0(0)
2010–2012	West Bromwich Albion	14 0(0)
2012-2013	Reading FC	17 0(0)
2013–	Bristol City	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2007	England	2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2012/13

Nicholas "Nicky" Shorey (born February 19, 1981 in Romford , London Borough of Havering , England ) is an English football player .

Athletic career

Club career

Shorey began his athletic career when he joined the Leyton Orient youth division in 1998 . He then came in the seasons 1999/2000 and 2000/01 occasionally to appearances in the first team and thereby attracted the attention of coach Alan Pardew, who was then active at Reading FC . For a transfer fee of 25,000 pounds Shorey finally moved on February 10, 2001, the club and quickly developed into a permanent part of the team at Reading FC.

On August 1, 2006, Shorey extended his contract with Reading FC until June 2009 and then performed well in his first Premier League season in 2006/07 - the club's supporters voted him “Player of the Season” in the end. in second place. This made him recommended for more ambitious first division clubs, where he was mainly associated with a move to Newcastle United or West Ham United . On August 4, 2007, Steve Coppell announced as the coach of Reading FC that Shorey had turned down a contract extension offer for improved salaries. However, Shorey denied speculation about an early move with an official statement that he intended not to leave Reading FC. On August 7, 2008 Shorey signed a three-year contract with league rivals Aston Villa . The clubs involved kept silent about the transfer fee.

After Shorey had been in the starting lineup of Aston Villa at the beginning of the 2009/10 season, he lost this position after signing Stephen Warnock . At the end of November 2009, he then moved on loan to the second division Nottingham Forest and completed nine league games there by the end of January, in which his new team was undefeated. In early February 2010, Fulham FC announced Shorey's commitment. He was on loan from Aston Villa until the end of the season.

On August 9, 2010, Shorey signed a two-year contract with an option for an additional year at West Bromwich Albion .

English national team

Shorey's good performance at the club in the 2006/07 season initially meant that the supporters of Reading FC demanded that their left defender be considered in the English national team by regularly intoning “Shorey for England”. As the season progressed, Shorey, which had not yet been included in the English selection, found greater acceptance in the national media.

Finally, Shorey came on May 25, 2007 in Turf Moor - usually the home ground of Burnley FC - in the English B selection against Albania and was in the 3-1 win in the starting line-up before he was substituted after 73 minutes. Quite a few experts then recommended that Shorey should be promoted to the senior national team and Steve McClaren nominated him on May 26, 2007 for the upcoming friendly against Brazil and for the subsequent European Championship qualifier against Estonia . In the 1-1 draw against Brazil at the new Wembley Stadium , he made his debut as England national team player on June 1, 2007, but despite good reviews from experts, Shorey wasn't even on the bench during the game against Estonia.

His second international game completed Shorey on August 22, 2007 again in Wembley in the 1: 2 defeat against Germany .

useful information

• Shorey is one of only a handful of football players who have played on all four English professional league levels.
• In the club's internal election for "Reading FC's best team of all time", Shorey won on the left defensive position with a total of 53.1%.
• In 2004, Nicky Shorey's career was at a crossroads when, in the worst case scenario, he was threatened with amputation following a serious infection in his foot . After a three-month break, however, he was able to recover completely.

Web links

• Nicky Shorey in the weltfussball.de database
• Nicky Shorey in the soccerbase.com database
• Nicky Shorey , international match statistics on the homepage of the English Football Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "The secret of Shorey's success" (BBC Sport)
2. ^ "Reading complete Shorey deal" (BBC Sport)
3. ^ "Shorey set to stick with reading" (Daily Mail)
4. ↑ "Shorey dismisses move talk" ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (4thegame.com) 
5. ^ "Aston Villa sign Shorey and Young" (BBC Sport)
6. ↑ Forest bring in full-back Shorey (BBC Sport)
7. ↑ Aston Villa recall Shorey from Nottingham Forest (BBC Sport)
8. ↑ Fulham sign Shorey, Okaka and Buchtmann (BBC Sport)
9. ↑ West Brom boss Di Matteo signs Nicky Shorey (BBC Sport)
10. ↑ "Graduation earns a fanfare for Shorey" ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (The Independent) 
11. ↑ "Shorey riposte kick-starts Royals 'ascent' ( Memento of 18 February 2007 at the Internet Archive ) (The Guardian)
12. ↑ "McClaren's learning curve" (BBC Sport)
13. ↑ "Owen included in England B squad" (BBC Sport)
14. ↑ "England B 3-1 Albania" (BBC Sport)
15. ↑ "Garth Crooks' team of the season" (BBC Sport)
16. ^ "Beckham recalled to England squad" (BBC Sport)
17. ↑ "England 1-1 Brazil" (BBC Sport)
18. ^ "Joel Hufford's Nicky Shorey clockwatch" (BBC Radio Berkshire)
19. ^ "McClaren denied a famous victory" (The Daily Telegraph, Henry Winter )
20. ↑ "Estonia 0-3 England" (BBC Sport)
21. ^ "England 1-2 Germany" (BBC Sport)
22. ↑ "Shorey: Infection put my career at risk" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (Reading Evening Post)