Wayne Routledge
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Wayne Neville Routledge | |
| Date of birth | January 7, 1985 | |
| Place of birth | Sidcup, London, England | |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | |
| Playing position | Winger | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Aston Villa | |
| Number | 18 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2001–2005 2005–2008 2006 2006–2007 2008– |
Crystal Palace Tottenham Hotspur → Portsmouth (loan) → Fulham (loan) Aston Villa |
110 (11) 5 (0) 13 (0) 24 (0) 1 (0) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2004–2007 | England U21 | 12 (1) |
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Wayne Neville Routledge (born January 7, 1985 in Sidcup, London) and attended The Archbishop Lanfranc School (Croydon) is an English footballer, who currently plays for Premier League club Aston Villa. He plays as a midfielder predominantly on the right wing but can also play on the left. He has represented England at under-16, under-19 and under-21 level.
[edit] Football career
Routledge began his career at Crystal Palace, making his starting debut (against Wolves) at the age of 17 in September 2002, and scored after just one minute on the field. He made his Palace debut in October 2001 in a 1-0 home defeat by West Bromwich Albion, aged only 16. He was England's second ever player to score at the new Wembley Stadium.
He was an important member of the side which won promotion to the Premiership via the play-offs in 2003-04, and he was ever present as Palace battled for their Premiership place in 2004-05 and, although they just failed to avoid the drop, Routledge proved to be an exciting talent on the wing, chipping in with an impressive 8 assists. He was not to leave the top flight, though. After rejecting a contract with the side that developed him as a youngster in January, Spurs snapped him up on July 1, 2005.[1] The clubs could not come to an agreement over a fee for Routledge so the transfer went to a tribunal. There it was agreed that Palace would receive an initial £1.25m, rising to £2m depending upon appearances in future.
After impressing in the pre-season, His career at White Hart Lane started slowly as he unfortunately suffered a broken foot on his league debut for the club, but on December 12, 2005 he made his return as a substitute in only his second game for Spurs against Portsmouth.
He was loaned to Portsmouth in the January 2006 transfer window[2] and made 13 appearances for them before returning to Spurs at the season's end. Routledge impressed Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp in a home game against Bolton Wanderers in March 2006, when, with Bolton 1-0 ahead with only three minutes left to play, Routledge - who had only just come on as a substitute - outpaced three Bolton players into the penalty box to connect with a long pass from Matthew Taylor and set Azar Karadas up for a spectacular volley which levelled the match and ultimately earned relegation-threatened Portsmouth a crucial 1-1 draw against the Trotters, a result that began a run of good late season form for the South Coast club.
After impressing in the pre-season again, he was once again loaned out on a year deal to Fulham as part of the deal that brought Steed Malbranque to the White Hart Lane club.[3] This was also partly due to the emergence of Aaron Lennon at both club and international level.
His Fulham bow came as a 34th minute replacement for injury victim Jimmy Bullard in a 2-1 victory at Newcastle United. He went on to create two goals in the final ten minutes of the match.
On 18 August 2007, Routledge was selected in the starting line-up against Derby County. He had an impressive game, giving width to the team on the right of midfield which was previously missing with the absence of the injured Aaron Lennon. In the game, he came close to scoring what would have been his first goal for the first team when he was deemed to be offside. His outside-of-the-foot chip to put the ball in the back of the net was disallowed.
On January 30, 2008 Routledge joined Aston Villa on an 18 month contract in a deal worth £1.25 million. He scored the second goal in his reserve debut in a 6-0 away win at Derby County, played at Burton Albion's ground.[4] He made his first-team debut on April 5, 2008 coming on as a late substitute for Stiliyan Petrov in the 86th minute in a 4-0 win against Bolton Wanderers.
[edit] References
- ^ Tottenham agree deal on Routledge. BBC Sport (17 June, 2005).
- ^ Pompey sign Routledge & Koroman. BBC Sport (30 January 2006).
- ^ Malbranque & Routledge swap clubs. BBC Sport (31 August 2006).
- ^ James Pearson. "Villa bag Spurs man He made his first team debut against Bolton Wanderers on 5 April 2008. Which Villa won 4-0.", Sky Sports, 2008-01-30. Retrieved on 2008-01-30.
[edit] External links
- Wayne Routledge career stats at Soccerbase
- Photos and stats at sporting-heroes.net
- Profile at 4thegame.com
- Profile at premierleague.com
- Wayne Routledge Official Website at Icons.com
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