Ryan Mason

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Ryan Mason
Ryan Mason July 2010 USA tour.jpg
Ryan Mason on the US tour
of Tottenham Hotspur in July 2010
Personnel
Surname Ryan Glen Mason
birthday June 13, 1991
place of birth Enfield , London ,  England
size 178 cm
position Central midfield
Juniors
Years station
Cheshunt School
Enfield Grammar School
2007-2009 Tottenham Hotspur
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008-2016 Tottenham Hotspur 53 (2)
2009-2010 →  Yeovil Town  (loan) 28 (6)
2010 →  Doncaster Rovers  (loan) 5 (0)
2011 → Doncaster Rovers (loan) 10 (0)
2011 → Doncaster Rovers (loan) 4 (0)
2012 →  Millwall FC  (loan) 5 (0)
2013 →  FC Lorient B (loan) 4 (0)
2013 →  FC Lorient  (loan) 0 (0)
2013-2014 →  Swindon Town  (loan) 18 (5)
2016-2018 Hull City 16 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2006-2007 England U-16 5 (1)
2009-2010 England U-19 4 (1)
2011 England U-20 1 (0)
2015 England 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ryan Glen Mason (born June 13, 1991 in Enfield , London ) is a retired English football player on the position of midfielder . Mason played a game for England's senior team , at club level he had been with Tottenham Hotspur for the longest time , and in 2018 he had to end his career early due to a head injury sustained in early 2017.

Club career

Career start and professional debut

Ryan Mason was born and raised on June 13, 1991 in the London Borough of Enfield. He completed his school education at the Cheshunt School in Cheshunt and at the renowned and venerable Enfield Grammar School in his home in north London. From there, Mason, who was successful as a hurdler during his school days, was discovered by scouts in 2007 and associated with the English top club Tottenham Hotspur. After he was accepted by the club in June 2007, he went through the academy, where he was top scorer for two years in a row and thus quickly worked his way up to the professionals.

Twelve months after joining the club, the then 17-year-old signed his first professional contract with Spurs. He finally made his competitive debut on November 27, 2008 in a 1-0 away win in the group stage of the 2008/09 UEFA Cup against NEC Nijmegen , when he came on the lawn a few seconds before the end of the game for David Bentley . In the academy team Mason was the top scorer in 2009 with 29 goals in 31 games, after a 1-0 play-off defeat in the final against the academy of Arsenal , he was runner-up with the team in the Premier Academy League .

Regular player at Yeovil Town

On June 13, 2009 Mason was awarded to the then League One club Yeovil Town together with his teammate Steven Caulker . In Yeovil he came under Terry Skiverton as a regular player from the start and made his professional league debut on August 8, 2015 in a 2-0 home win in the first round match against the Tranmere Rovers , when he played through the full 90 minutes and in a way also the template made Gavin Tomlin's penalty goal 2-0 after being fouled in the penalty area by Aaron Cresswell . He also celebrated further personal successes in the two subsequent rounds of play, when he scored away against Colchester United with a free kick and also away against Exeter City with a long shot each once in the opposing goal.

Due to the good performance at the beginning of the 2009/10 season , Mason's expiring loan contract was extended early in August 2009 for a further three months. Since the midfielder was used in almost every game for the full length of the game and often demonstrated his offensive strength, the contract for the three Tottenham loans, Mason, Caulker and Obika , was signed for another six months at the beginning of November 2009 until the end of the season extended in May 2010. From February 2010 Mason was used less often, he brought it to the end of the season only on three missions, of which he did not manage a single over the full game, and on March 13, 2010 was brought back to his home club prematurely. By the end of the season, when the Glovers ranked 15th in the table, Mason had a record of six goals and five assists in 28 league games.

Return to the Spurs and on loan to the Doncaster Rovers

After the early return of the midfielder, however, this was only used by the pros from Tottenham Hotspur in the pre-season, including against the New York Red Bulls , and was loaned to the English second division Doncaster Rovers in August 2010 for two months . Subsequently, he was used in five league games until mid-September, of which he did not play through a single encounter for the full duration of the match, and was unused on the bench in another league encounter. Due to a back injury, this loan had to be canceled prematurely.

In January 2011 Mason moved again on loan, this time until the end of the season, to the Rovers. But even at the second attempt, Mason was unable to assert himself in Sean O'Driscoll's team and mostly did not get beyond his role as a substitute player. Ten goalless appearances stood at the end of the 2010/11 season , when the Doncaster Rovers barely managed to stay ahead of the game, before the midfielder returned to his regular club. Competitive appearances for his regular team, which made it to the quarter-finals in the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League , Mason was again unable to record any this season.

More time at Doncaster and move to Millwall

On July 28, 2011, the 1.78 m tall player signed a new two-year contract with Tottenham, so that his stay there until June 2013 was secured and then switched to the Doncaster Rovers for the third time in a row on loan for the entire season Football League Championship. Initially still used in the first round game of O'Driscoll, he was no longer used in the next matches and had to, among other things, because of an ankle injury that he suffered in the League Cup, after the departure of O'Driscolls and the new signing of Dean Saunders as a coach waiting for a long time before Saunders used him as a substitute on October 14 in a 3-0 home defeat by Leeds United . Even before the Rovers had to relegate to the third division at the end of the season due to the lack of success, Tottenham pulled the return option in November 2011 and brought the player back to Haringey after he had only four league appearances and one use, as well as one goal and one assist in League Cup 2011/12 .

On December 29, 2011, Ryan Mason and his teammate Harry Kane confirmed a loan move until the end of the season to the Football League Championship club Millwall , which came into effect on January 1, 2012. He made his competitive debut for Millwall at the end of the month when he played in right midfield in the 2-0 home defeat to Watford FC and was replaced by Chris Hackett from the 57th minute . With the newcomer he was used in only five league games by the end of the season, sat on the bench in two more without being used, but was not even in the squad for most of the rest of the season. He was able to record another appearance in the FA Cup 2011/12 , where he was only on the bench in the last game of his team before the elimination in the fifth main round against the Bolton Wanderers .

Via the Spurs to France and back again

After his return to Spurs, Mason was mainly used in the reserve team with play in the Professional Development League . On September 20, 2012 he made his comeback for the Lilywhites in the first game in the group stage of the 2012/13 Europa League against Lazio after almost four years. After this almost one-minute assignment, he was also in the two subsequent games of the Premier League 2012/13 , which ended the team in fifth place, unused on the bench before he was only on the bench in the second game of the Europa League group stage Had to take a seat. In between, however, he was also used for the first time from the start for the team from north London; in the 3-0 win over Carlisle United in the 2012/13 League Cup , he played until the 70th minute before being replaced by Tom Carroll .

Accompanied by the successes in the reserve team, for which he scored eight goals in ten games between August 2012 and January 2013 and prepared another three for his teammates, as well as acted as team captain for long stretches, the now 21-year-old soon found another club, where he was supposed to stay on a loan basis. On January 31, 2013, the last day of the transfer window, he moved to the French first division club FC Lorient for the remainder of the 2012/13 season . After he had only made four league appearances for Lorient's B-team in the fourth-highest division in the country (CFA) and sat on the bench in just one first division game (4-0 home win over Stade Brest ), the Lilywhites got him back to England on April 23, 2013.

Moved to Swindon Town and made his final breakthrough at Tottenham

Following these difficult years with relatively few professional appearances, Mason was supposed to make the breakthrough in English professional football from the 2013/14 season. On July 23, 2013, he moved to Swindon Town on loan for one season in the third highest football league in England, where he also met his Tottenham colleagues , who were also on loan, Massimo Luongo , Grant Hall and Alex Pritchard . After he debuted on August 3, 2013 in a 0-1 away defeat in the first round game of Football League One 2013/14 against Peterborough United over the full 90 minutes, he scored on his third appearance in the fifth round, a 5-0 home win via Crewe Alexandra , a flawless hat trick within 24 minutes and missed a penalty in the same game just before the end of the game. Under Mark Cooper , who was to remain the team's coach until October 17, 2015, Ryan Mason often acted as a regular in the midfield and was able to do it up to the 28th round when an injury in the game against Shrewsbury Town threw him off track and for the season ended prematurely, recording five goals and one assist in 18 league appearances. He was also used in the first two rounds of the 2013/14 League Cup , before the team was eliminated in Round 3 against Chelsea , and also had an appearance in the first round of the 2013/14 FA Cup , as the team Macclesfield Town lost 0: 4.

After a recovered injury, a successful season preparation in the United States and two appearances as well as a goal for the reserve team, Mason started from the sixth round in 2014/15 under Mauricio Pochettino as a permanent player in the Premier League. He started the season on September 27, 2014 with a 1-1 away draw against Arsenal and was on the field for the entire duration of the match. From this time on, a good cooperation with the Algerian national player Nabil Bentaleb, who was born in France, developed in the central midfield . During this time he was not only used in the Premier League, but also made two short appearances in the UEFA Europa League 2014/15 , where the team in the round of 32 against Fiorentina with a total score of 1: 3 back and forth Eliminated the second leg of the current tournament. There was a scandal on November 2, 2014 during the game against Aston Villa , when Mason bumped his opponent Christian Benteke with his head, who was sent off the pitch prematurely after a light slap in the face by Ryan Mason with the red card , during Mason's offense went unpunished by referee Neil Swarbrick . Subsequently, both clubs were fined £ 20,000 each by the English Association for not having their players under control. In January 2015, the then 23-year-old signed a five and a half year contract with the North London football club until summer 2020.

In the further course of the season, the player, who was mainly used in the central, but sometimes also in the defensive midfield, was also one of the main contributors to the team's entry into the final of the League Cup 2014/15 , where the team lost 2-0 to Chelsea. By the end of the season, when Tottenham again ranked fifth, Ryan Mason had made 31 Premier League appearances. The player, who was out of action for some time in January due to a thigh injury, scored one goal and prepared another four for his colleagues. Due to his performance in the league, he was called up by Roy Hodgson in March 2015 for a qualifying match for the Euro 2016 against Lithuania and a friendly international match against Italy in the English national football team , among other things after Adam Lallana was injured. After his shirt number was changed from 38 to 8 before the start of the Premier League 2015/16 , he was used in the first five games, but was eliminated in a 1-0 away win over Sunderland AFC when he was in the 82nd minute scored the winning goal and was voted Man of the Match in the end , just three minutes after his goal due to a bruised knee.

Moved to Hull City and retired early

In the summer of 2016, he moved to Hull City. On January 22nd, 2017, when the team played against Chelsea, he crashed into Gary Cahill in the 12th minute . He was changed after 9 minutes of treatment and hospitalized with a diagnosis of a fractured skull. On January 24th, it was announced that Mason had awakened from his coma. Due to the long-term effects of this injury, the end of his career was announced in February 2018.

National team

In 2006 and 2007, Ryan Mason made his debut in an English junior national team when he completed five international matches for the U-16 team in his home country . His first call-up to the English U-19 national team , he received as a Yeovil player at the time in a 2-1 win over his peers from Russia on September 8, 2009, but he was not used. In October 2009 he was called up by Noel Blake to qualify for the U-19 European Championship 2010 in the English U-19 squad, where he was used in two of the three group games and in the game against Slovakia (2-0- Victory) also contributed a hit. By 2010 he had played his third and fourth U-19 international in two friendly matches against Turkey and the Netherlands . In February 2011, Mason received a call-up to the English U-20 national team , which enters a friendly international match against France's U-20s . In this encounter, the midfielder was used from the 70th minute of the game and remained goalless.

Due to his performance in the league, Roy Hodgson brought him to the English national football team on March 23, 2015 for a qualifying match for the European Championship 2016 against Lithuania and a friendly international match against Italy to compensate for Adam Lallana's injury-related loss . After he was still unused on the bench against Lithuania, he finally made his senior national team debut in his home country on March 31, 2015 in the friendly against Italy, when he came on the pitch for Jordan Henderson in the 74th minute and in minute 79 did the preparatory work for Andros Townsend's equalizer. In September he was again unused on the bench in two further European Championship qualifying games against San Marino and Switzerland and expected to play in the other qualifying games in October, which he missed due to his knee bruise.

successes

with Tottenham Hotspur

Web links

  • Ryan Mason in the soccerbase.com database
  • Ryan Mason on the official website of the English Football Association (English)
  • Ryan Mason in the soccerway.com database
  • Ryan Mason at archive.mehstg.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NEC Nijmegen 0–1 Tottenham (English), accessed on October 19, 2015
  2. ↑ Arsenal win Academy League Final ( Memento from May 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ^ Yeovil to sign young Spurs duo , accessed on October 19, 2015
  4. ^ Yeovil 2–0 Tranmere , accessed October 19, 2015
  5. ^ Colchester 2–1 Yeovil , accessed October 19, 2015
  6. ↑ Exeter 1–1 Yeovil , accessed October 19, 2015
  7. ↑ THREE SIGN LOANS FOR SEASON ( Memento of November 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  8. ↑ Mason recalled ( Memento from March 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  9. ↑ Doncaster sign Spurs youngster Ryan Mason on loan , accessed October 19, 2015
  10. ↑ Doncaster Rovers re-sign Tottenham Hotspur's Ryan Mason , accessed October 19, 2015
  11. ↑ Doncaster Rovers return for Spurs' Ryan Mason , accessed October 19, 2015
  12. ↑ Mason ends Rovers stint , accessed October 19, 2015
  13. ↑ Millwall agree loans for Tottenham's Ryan Mason and Harry Kane , accessed October 19, 2015
  14. ^ Carlisle 0–3 Tottenham , accessed October 19, 2015
  15. ↑ Tottenham youngster Mason joins Lorient on loan (English), accessed on 19 October 2015
  16. ^ MASON TO TOWN , accessed October 19, 2015
  17. ↑ Swindon 5–0 Crewe , accessed October 19, 2015
  18. ↑ Swindon 3–1 Shrewsbury , accessed October 19, 2015
  19. ↑ Aston Villa 1–2 Tottenham , accessed October 19, 2015
  20. ↑ Aston Villa and Tottenham fined £ 20,000 each by FA , accessed October 19, 2015
  21. ↑ NEW DEAL FOR RYAN , accessed on October 19, 2015
  22. ^ Tottenham 3-2 Swansea: Ryan Mason and Andros Townsend kick start top-four chase and lift Spurs spirits after Wembley heartache , accessed October 19, 2015
  23. ↑ a b Ryan Mason gets England call as Lallana is ruled out , accessed October 19, 2015
  24. ↑ 2015–16 PREMIER LEAGUE SQUAD NUMBERS ANNOUNCED (English), accessed on October 19, 2015
  25. ↑ Spurs keep another clean sheet as Mason secures spoils vs. Sunderland , accessed October 19, 2015
  26. ↑ 2017/18 Ryan Mason Retirement Statement | Hull City Tigers. Accessed February 13, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Injury in a header duel: professional footballer ends career after fractured skull . In: Spiegel Online . February 13, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 13, 2018]).
  28. ↑ No Room For Mason As England Under 19s Win , accessed October 19, 2015
  29. ↑ Italy 1–1 England (English), accessed October 19, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Mason, Ryan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mason, Ryan Glen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Enfield , London , England