Phil Jagielka

Phil Jagielka
Phil Jagielka (2015)
Personnel
Surname	Philip Nikodem Jagielka
birthday	17th August 1982
place of birth	Sale , Greater Manchester ,  England
size	183 cm
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
	Hale Barns United
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2007	Sheffield United	254 (18)
2007-2019	Everton FC	322 (14)
2012	Everton FC U-21	1 0(0)
2019–	Sheffield United	2 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2002-2003	England U21	6 0(2)
2007	England B	1 0(0)
2008-2017	England	40 0(3)
1 Only league games are given. As of October 4, 2019 2 As of May 25, 2017

Philip "Phil" Nikodem Jagielka (born August 17, 1982 in Sale , Greater Manchester ) is an English football player . The central defender , who started his career at Sheffield United in the central defensive midfield , is under contract with the Premier League club Everton FC . He made his debut in the English senior team in 2008 and was appointed to the “Three Lions” squad for Euro 2012 in Ukraine and Poland as well as for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil .

Athletic career

Sheffield United (1999-2007)

Phil Jagielka, whose older brother Stephen also became a footballer, is of Polish descent. The talent scouts first noticed him when he pulled the strings in midfield at a small football club called Hale Barns United in Altrincham . In this position he also came primarily in the youth academy of Sheffield United to train. On May 5, 2000 he played on the last day of the end of the 1999/2000 season for the first time against Swindon Town a game for United's senior team. Until the turn of the year 2000/01 he fought his way into the starting lineup more and more often. Coach Neil Warnock then decided to contract the young talent to the club for three and a half years in January 2001.

By the 2002/03 season at the latest, Jagielka was a regular at Sheffield United and attracted the attention of other clubs, including Leeds United , who wanted to sign him with teammate Michael Brown for six million pounds. Numerous other interested parties from the Premier League for the English junior international followed, including West Ham United in June 2005. After a four-million offer from Wigan Athletic in July of the same year, West Ham improved its offer again. After another rejected offer from Bolton Wanderers , Jagielka, who had since been promoted to team captain in Chris Morgan's absence , signed a new three-year contract in August 2006 with Sheffield United, which had recently been promoted to the Premier League.

On September 30, 2006, he scored the 2-1 winner at the last minute against Middlesbrough FC, securing his club's first Premier League victory since April 1994. Although he was a key player in the first division season and on December 30, 2006 even replaced the injured goalkeeper Paddy Kenny against Arsenal (1-0) for half an hour, the club's management declared Jagielka to be generally for sale in December 2006. When Sheffield returned to second division at the end of the 2006/07 season , signs increased that Jagielka would be leaving Sheffield. He had played 133 league games in a row and played all championship games from the 2004/05 to 2006/07 seasons.

Everton FC (2007-2019)

Jagielka's path led to Everton , where he hired on July 4, 2007 for four million pounds as Sheffield United's most expensive footballer to date. After a steady rise within the team hierarchy and two goals against AZ Alkmaar (3: 2) and Wigan Athletic (2: 1) he was the best player ("Man of the Match") in the games against Tottenham Hotspur , Brann Bergen and Manchester City . He was in top form at the beginning of the 2008-09 season and was the heart of the Everton FC defense. After he was elected league-wide best player of the month in February 2009, he received the club's internal award for best player at the end of the round. He also converted the last penalty kick in the successful penalty shootout against Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-finals. The successful season ended on April 25, 2009 for Jagielka with the rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament, causing him to be out for the rest of 2009. A month after this incident, he nevertheless signed a new five-year contract with Everton. On February 25, 2010 he made his comeback against Sporting Lisbon , but after his substitution for Philippe Senderos in the 52nd minute after a 0-0 intermediate result, it ended with a 0-3 defeat. After another brief assignment three days later in the Premier League, he was back on the field for over 90 minutes in the 5-1 win against Hull City on March 7th of that year. At the side of Sylvain Distin , he regained a place in Everton's central defense.

In March 2011 Jagielka signed a contract extension to 2015 and an offer from Arsenal in the summer of the same year in the amount of thirteen million pounds was rejected by coach Moyes - the "Gunners" then signed Per Mertesacker . Although Johnny Heitinga, a competitor in Jagielka's position, won the club's internal award for "Player of the Year" with good performances in the 2011/12 season, it was the center-back pair of Distin and Jagielka in the 2012/13 season that was the "first choice" was valid and halfway through the season Everton extended the contract with him again - now until 2017. After the departure of Phil Neville , Moyes' coaching successor Roberto Martínez promoted him to the new captain in the summer of 2013.

Under Jagielka's "direction", Everton remained a serious competitor for a long time in the 2013/14 season in the battle for the Champions League qualifying places. With only 39 goals conceded, he was only fifth in the end, but at the same time he was praised for his good performances at the side of Distin and his qualities as a promoter of the new talent John Stones - Stones had Jagielka during his injury break (thigh problems) represented. In time for the end of the season and thus in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Jagielka reported recovered.

English national team

The former England U-21 international played on 10 May 2007 against Albania for England's B selection, replacing his future team-mate Phil Neville in the second half on the right full-back position. On May 11, 2008 Jagielka received his first nomination for the English senior team and on June 1, 2008 he made his debut as a substitute against Trinidad and Tobago . This was followed in the friendly against Spain on February 11, 2009, the first game for the "Three Lions" from the start.

However, he still had to wait for the next noteworthy development steps and the then national coach Fabio Capello did not nominate him for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa . In the first game after the tournament Jagielka completed his fourth international game, with an own goal in the 2-1 against Hungary . From then on he played three qualifying games for England for Euro 2010 , all of which were victorious against Bulgaria (4: 0), Switzerland (3: 1) and Wales (2: 0). Despite some good performances as a central defender - especially in November 2011 in the 1-0 friendly match against world champions Spain when he played with a broken toe - he was initially not part of the English squad again at the European Championship finals in Ukraine and Poland. The new coach Roy Hodgson nominated him after Gareth Barry was injured , but Jagielka was not used in any of the four English tournament games.

When John Terry resigned from the national team shortly afterwards , Jagielka was now more often in the starting lineup. Together with Gary Cahill , he often formed the new central defense and contributed seven internationals to successfully qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil . He was then nominated for the final squad. At the end of the season he had been able to report in good shape and in the meantime business games that had Terry's comeback as the subject matter (against the background that Terry and Cahill also provided the defense headquarters at Chelsea and this was quite successfully in the past 2013/14 season), were discarded.

Title / Awards

• PFA Team of the Year (2): 2004 (2nd division), 2006 (2nd division)
• England's Footballer of the Month (1): February 2009

Web links

• Phil Jagielka in the database of weltfussball.de
• Phil Jagielka in the soccerbase.com database
• Phil Jagielka , profile on the homepage of Everton FC (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile on the FA website , accessed April 1, 2015 (English)
2. ^ "From time keeper England center half rise rise of Phil Jagielka" (Daily Mail)
3. ↑ "Warnock hails teenage ace" (BBC Sport)
4. ^ "Blades deny Leeds approach" (BBC Sport)
5. ^ "Blades warn Hammers off Jagielka" (BBC Sport)
6. ↑ "Jewell unhappy over Jagielka bid" (BBC Sport)
7. ^ Jagielka is not for sale, says Warnock , theboltonnews.co.uk
8. ^ "Jagielka commits future to blades" (BBC Sport)
9. ↑ "Sheff Utd 2-1 Middlesbrough" (BBC Sport)
10. ↑ "Sheff Utd 1-0 Arsenal" (BBC Sport)
11. ^ "Blades may sell Jagielka" (football.co.uk)
12. ↑ "Everton secure deal for Jagielka" (BBC Sport)
13. ↑ "Man Utd 0-0 Everton (aet)" (BBC Sport)
14. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who . Mainstream Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84596-474-0 , pp. 214 .
15. ^ "Phil Jagielka: Player profile" (Toffeeweb.com)
16. ↑ "Jagielka seals vital U21s victory" ( Memento of 5 July 2008 at the Internet Archive ) (The FA)
17. ↑ "Hart & Jagielka in England squad" (BBC Sport)
18. ^ "England 2-1 Hungary" (BBC Sport)
19. ↑ "Euro 2012: England confirm squad numbers" (BBC Sport)
20. ↑ "Phil Jagielka is painfully aware of John Terry's long shadow England" (The Guardian)