Peter Whittingham

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Peter Whittingham
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Peter Whittingham (2016)
Personnel
Surname Peter Michael Whittingham
birthday September 8, 1984
place of birth Nuneaton ,  England
date of death March 19, 2020
Place of death Cardiff ,  Wales
size 178 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
2001-2003 Aston Villa
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2007 Aston Villa 56 0(1)
2005 →  Burnley FC  (loan) 7 0(0)
2005 →  Derby County  (loan) 11 0(0)
2007-2017 Cardiff City 412 (85)
2017-2018 Blackburn Rovers 20 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2004-2007 England U21 17 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Michael Whittingham (born September 8, 1984 in Nuneaton , England , † March 19, 2020 in Cardiff , Wales ) was an English football player . The 17-time U21 international came from the youth division of Aston Villa ; From 2007 to 2017, the midfielder played at Cardiff City in over 450 competitive games, rose to the Premier League with the club in 2013 and made it to the finals of both the FA Cup (2008) and the League Cup (2012).

Career

Aston Villa

Whittingham made his debut for Aston Villa in the second half of the 2002/03 Premier League . His breakthrough as a regular for the club from Birmingham he achieved in the following season, when he was used in 32 league games. Due to shorter periods of play 2004/05 he was loaned to the second division Burnley FC in the second half of the season. In the 2005/06 season he moved on loan to Derby County , which also played in the second division. After Whittingham had rarely been able to act for his team in the 2006/07 Premier League , he signed a contract with second division Cardiff City in January 2007 for a transfer fee of £ 350,000 .

Cardiff City

Whittingham quickly found his way in his new team and played 19 league games in which he scored four goals. City occupied a place in the middle of the table at the end of the season. The following year, the Cardiff club found themselves in this region of the table, Peter Whittingham made 41 league appearances in 2007/08 and scored five goals. The highlight of the season was reaching the final of the FA Cup 2007/08 . Cardiff City had u. a. the Wolverhampton Wanderers and Middlesbrough defeated before in the semifinals of Barnsley FC waited. In front of 82,752 spectators at Wembley, Cardiff won 1-0 through an early goal from Joe Ledley and thus moved into the final. This lost the team on May 17, 2008 in front of 89,874 spectators at Wembley, but 1-0 against Portsmouth FC . Nwankwo Kanu scored the golden goal for the south of England in the 37th minute of the game. Peter Whittingham, who had scored three goals in the course of the FA Cup, was substituted in the 61st minute and replaced by the young Welshman Aaron Ramsey .

In the Football League Championship 2008/09 Cardiff was able to improve significantly and only narrowly missed the play-offs with seventh place. Only one more goal led the Preston North End team with the same point and goal difference to sixth place. City also played successfully in the 2009/10 season and ended the year in fourth place in the table. After a success in the first play-off round against Leicester City , Whittingham moved with his team into the play-off final. The game was played in Wembley on May 22, 2010 and Blackpool FC won 3-2. With that, Cardiff missed promotion to the Premier League very closely. Peter Whittingham had an excellent season, scoring 20 goals in 41 league appearances. He was together with Nicky Maynard of Bristol City top scorer of the second division. He also received the honor of being named Player of the Month October 2009 and was accepted into the PFA Team of the Year of the Football League Championship 2009/10.

National team

Peter Whittingham made 17 appearances for England's U21 national team between 2003 and 2007 , scoring three goals. He also participated with other players like Ashley Young , James Milner , Joe Hart and Leighton Baines at the U21 European Championship in 2007 in part in the Netherlands. England failed in the semifinals with 12:13 after penalties at the hosts.

death

Whittingham suffered a serious head injury in a fall in a pub in Barry on March 7, 2020 . He was admitted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in critical condition, where he succumbed to his injury twelve days later.

successes

Web links

Commons : Peter Whittingham  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b independent.co.uk: Peter Whittingham dead: Cardiff City confirm death of former footballer, aged 35 (March 19, 2020) , accessed March 19, 2020
  2. ↑ Blackpool 3 - 2 Cardiff , news.bbc.co.uk, accessed on March 19, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Whittingham, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whittingham, Peter Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuneaton , England
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2020
Place of death Cardiff , Wales