Steve Adams (soccer player, 1980)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steve Adams
Personnel
Surname Stephen Marc Adams
birthday September 25, 1980
place of birth Plymouth ,  England
position Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years station
Plymouth Argyle
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2005 Plymouth Argyle 157 (7)
2005-2007 Sheffield Wednesday 20 (0)
2007-2008 Swindon Town 2 (0)
2008-2010 Torquay United 17 (0)
2009 →  Forest Green Rovers  (loan) 6 (0)
2009-2010 →  Truro City  (loan)
2010-2013 Truro City
Callington Town
1 Only league games are given.

Stephen Marc "Steve" Adams (born September 25, 1980 in Plymouth ) is a former English football player .

Career

Adams was the captain of the Plymouth Argyle youth team and was still a trainee with the club when he came on December 8, 1998 in the Auto Windscreens Shield as a substitute for his first competitive minutes in the professional field. In July 1999 he signed his first professional contract, but was only used on the last match day of the 1999/2000 season in the Third Division against Mansfield Town (final score 2-2), but received a contract extension at the end of the season. With the arrival of Paul Sturrock as Plymouth coach in October 2000, Adam's career took off. After he was limited to 17 missions in the 2000/01 season due to injuries, he played all 46 league games in the 2001/02 season , which was completed as a third division champion. He was also named “Young Player of the Year” for the second time in a row by supporters of the club. After an eighth place in the 2002/03 season, won Adams, whose strengths were as a defensive midfielder in winning the ball and his understanding of the game, with Plymouth Argyle in 2004, the championship of the Second Division and went to the club by the subprime Football League Championship on .

After a few game days of the 2004/05 season , Adams lost his regular place and finally moved to third division Sheffield Wednesday in March 2005 , where Sturrock accompanied the coaching. At the end of the season Sheffield rose through the play-offs, in which Adams came to a brief stint in the semifinals against Brentford , in the second highest division. There Adams fell out most of the 2005/06 and 2006/07 seasons due to injury with calf and Achilles tendon problems and his contract, which expired in the summer of 2007, was not extended by the club.

In August 2007 he followed Sturrock again, who had meanwhile become coach at third division promoted Swindon Town . Adams received only a half-year contract and came in the following months across all competitions to six missions. Although Sturrock had left the club in the meantime and Adams was out for nine weeks because of a thigh injury, he was offered a contract until the end of the season from the new coach Maurice Malpas . Adams refused this, however, and instead signed a 2.5-year contract with fifth division Torquay United in January 2008 . After 16 competitive appearances in the second half of the season, including the final in the FA Trophy against Ebbsfleed United (final score 0: 1) at London's Wembley Stadium in front of over 40,000 spectators, he came in the 2008/09 season as Torquay over the play-offs Returning to the Football League made only four competitive appearances, the last time in March 2009.

In the last year of his contract with Torquay Adams was initially loaned from August to September 2009 to the fifth division team Forest Green Rovers , from October he spent the rest of the season, as did his teammate Lee Hodges , on loan from the Southern League club Truro City . After his contract with Torquay was not renewed, as expected, he moved permanently to Truro City in July 2010. In 2011 he rose with Truro City as champions of the Southern League in the sixth class Conference South before he left the financially troubled club in early 2013 and joined the locally playing club Callington Town .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1999, ISBN 1-85291-607-9 , pp. 9 .
  2. ↑ In some publications (including Rothmans Year Book) Adams is assigned a use by substitution in the FA Cup replay against Kidderminster on December 1, 1998, but contemporary press reports refute this. (See match reports in the Evening Herald of December 2 and December 9, 1998)
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2000, ISBN 1-85291-626-5 , pp. 9 f .
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2001-2002 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Exxus Ltd, London 2001, ISBN 0-946531-34-X , pp. 9 .
  5. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2002/2003 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2002, ISBN 1-85291-648-6 , pp. 13 .
  6. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2004/2005 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2004, ISBN 1-85291-660-5 , pp. 13 .
  7. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2005/2006 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2005, ISBN 1-85291-662-1 , pp. 14 .
  8. ↑ yorkshirepost.co.uk: Owls target Friio as Adams is ruled out (Jan. 6, 2006)
  9. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2006-07 . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 1-84596-111-0 , pp. 14 .
  10. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2007-08 . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2007, ISBN 978-1-84596-246-3 , pp. 14 .
  11. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2008-09 . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2008, ISBN 978-1-84596-324-8 , pp. 14 .
  12. ↑ swindon-town-fc.co.uk: Player Profile - Steve ADAMS
  13. ↑ westbriton.co.uk: Ellis and Adams back at Plainmoor (17th Sep. 2009) ( Memento of the original from 5th March 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.westbriton.co.uk
  14. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Torquay's Steve Adams and Lee Hodges to stay at Truro (January 13, 2010)
  15. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Midfielder Steve Adams signs for Truro City (July 28, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adams, Stephen Marc (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Plymouth