Simeon Jackson
| Simeon Jackson | ||
 Simeon Jackson (2008)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Simeon Alexander Jackson | |
| birthday | March 28, 1987 | |
| place of birth | Kingston , Jamaica | |
| position | Storm | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Sunoco FC | ||
| Gillingham FC | ||
| Dulwich Hamlet | ||
| Rushden & Diamonds | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2004-2008 | Rushden & Diamonds | 88 (40) |
| 2005-2006 | → Raunds Town (loan) | |
| 2008-2010 | Gillingham FC | 102 (34) |
| 2010-2013 | Norwich City | 74 (17) |
| 2013-2014 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 9 (0) |
| 2014 | Millwall FC | 14 (2) |
| 2014-2015 | Coventry City | 28 (3) |
| 2015-2016 | Barnsley FC | 9 (0) |
| 2016 | → Blackburn Rovers (loan) | 17 (0) |
| 2016-2018 | Walsall FC | 46 (7) |
| 2018 | → Grimsby Town (loan) | 5 (1) |
| 2018-2019 | FC St. Mirren | 30 (6) |
| 2019-2020 | FC Kilmarnock | 4 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2006-2007 | Canada U-20 | 7 (0) |
| 2009-2017 | Canada | 47 (6) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of December 31, 2019 |
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Simeon Alexander Jackson (born March 28, 1987 in Kingston , Jamaica ) is a Jamaican- Canadian football player .
Club career
Born in Jamaica, Jackson was sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Mississauga , Canada when he was three and grew up there. During a tournament in England with his Canadian youth team Sunoco FC, he was invited by Gillingham FC to a trial training session. Due to his mother's origins, he also had a British passport, so when he was 15 he ventured to England, where he lived with his great-aunt in Croydon . At Gillingham he was released from the youth team after a few weeks and then played for the amateur team Dulwich Hamlet before he was accepted into the youth department of Rushden & Diamonds .
For Rushden he made his professional debut in Football League Two on August 28, 2004 , but came back this season on the last day of play against Macclesfield used. In the first half of the 2005/06 season without a competitive game, he was awarded to the ninth division Raunds Town for some time at the turn of the year 2005/2006 . After his return he came regularly to assignments; his five goals earned him the club's internal award for best youngster of the season. The club rose at the end of the season in the Conference National . In the fifth-rate National Conference Jackson was the club's best striker and finished his first season as a regular with 19 league goals. After leading the list of goalscorers in the following first half of the season with 16 goals after 28 matchdays, the relegation-threatened third division Gillingham FC signed the attacker for 150,000 pounds shortly before the transfer deadline. Jackson signed at Gillingham for three and a half years and scored four goals in the second half of the season. Gillingham rose to League Two at the end of the season.
In the 2008/09 season, the striker was also at Gillingham a top performer when he helped the club to a place in the promotion playoffs with 17 goals this season. In the second leg of the semi-finals against Rochdale, he scored both goals for a 2-1 success, which meant the final. In the final at London's Wembley Stadium , in front of over 53,000 spectators, he scored the 1-0 winning goal against Shrewsbury in the 90th minute of the game and thus ensured Gillingham's return to League One . Despite 14 league goals in the third division season 2009/10, including three in the 5-0 win at the start of the season against Swindon Town , Gillingham missed relegation at the end of the season due to the worse goal difference. In the summer break he left Gillingham and moved to the second division promoted Norwich City .
In the summer break of 2013, Jackson moved to Bundesliga promoted Eintracht Braunschweig and received a two-year contract there. He made his Bundesliga debut on August 10, 2013 (1st matchday) in the 0-1 defeat in the home game against Werder Bremen .
Jackson joined Millwall FC during the winter break .
National team
Jackson played in some friendly matches for the first time for the Canadian U-20s in 2006 and was nominated a year later for the 2007 Junior World Cup in Canada. Only a week before the start of the tournament did he receive Canadian citizenship and thus the right to participate. Jackson was used in all three tournament games in Canada, but remained, like the entire team, without a hit and was eliminated in the preliminary round.
In November 2008 he received his first appointment to the senior national team of Canada , but was not used in the World Cup qualifier against his home country Jamaica. In May 2009, he made his international debut in a friendly against Cyprus, scoring the 1-0 winner. In July 2009 Jackson was part of the 23-strong Canadian squad at the CONCACAF Gold Cup and was used in all four tournament games when reaching the quarter-finals. In late 2009, he was named Canada's Footballer of the Year .
Web links
- Profile at the Canadian Association
- Simeon Jackson in the soccerbase.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c telegraph.co.uk: Gillingham's Simeon Jackson has point to prove against Villa (Jan. 3, 2009)
- ↑ mississauga.com: Jackson heads Gillingham back to League One (May 25, 2009)
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2006-07 . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 1-84596-111-0 , pp. 210 .
- ↑ bbc.co.uk: Gills sign Diamonds star Jackson (Feb. 1, 2008)
- ^ Simeon agrees the deal
- ↑ canadasoccer.com: Jackson is male selection for 2009 Canadian Players of the Year award (Dec. 18, 2009) ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2011 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.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jackson, Simeon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jackson, Simeon Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kingston , Jamaica |