Graham Kavanagh

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Graham Kavanagh

Full name	Graham Anthony Kavanagh
Date of birth	December 2, 1973 (1973-12-02) (age 34)
Place of birth	Dublin, Ireland
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Sunderland
Number	28
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1990–1991 1991–1996 1996 1996–2001 2001–2005 2005–2006 2006– 2007 2008	Home Farm Middlesbrough → Stoke City (loan) Stoke City Cardiff City Wigan Athletic Sunderland → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) → Sheffield Wednesday (loan)	000 0(0) 035 0(3) 003 0(1) 202 (33) 142 (28) 048 0(0) 014 0(1) 007 0(1) 009 0(1)
National team
1998–2006	Republic of Ireland	016 0(1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:08, 15 March 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Graham Anthony Kavanagh (born December 2, 1973 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish footballer, currently playing for Sunderland, having also played for Home Farm, Middlesbrough, Stoke City, Cardiff City, Wigan Athletic and two loan spells at Sheffield Wednesday.

Kavanagh is well known for his hard tackling abilities as well as being able to add a creative dimension to his play. Nicknamed the 'Silver Fox' he has recently operated in a holding central midfield role, a slight contrast to his previous role at Cardiff, where he operated a more advanced attacking role as well as being club captain.

1 Career
2 International
3 Trivia
4 Honours
5 References

[edit] Career

Kavanagh began his career at Home Farm, before joining Middlsbrough in 1991 but struggled to ever hold down a first team place and was sold to Stoke City in 1996, after a short loan spell at the club, for £250,000. He was eventually to move to Cardiff City in 2001 for £1m, and went on to score fifteen times in his first season at the club and help them to promotion the following year when they beat Queens Park Rangers in the Division two play-off final.

During the 2004-05 season Cardiff chairman Sam Hammam revealed that the club was in serious financial trouble and as such a number of players left the club to attempt to regain losses, including Kavanagh who signed for Wigan Athletic for a fee close to £400,000.^[1] On 31 August 2006, he signed a three-year deal with Roy Keane's Sunderland for £500,000. During that season he played 14 games, scoring one goal, before he was ruled out for the majority of games due to lingering injury problems.

He joined Sheffield Wednesday on 21 September 2007 on a loan deal to regain his fitness^[2] where he played seven games, scoring one goal against Watford on October 2nd. On 29 December, Leicester City made a bid for Kavanagh, together with Márton Fülöp.^[3] However, on 31 January 2008 Kavanagh again joined Wednesday on a loan deal until the end of the season.