Luke Young (footballer)

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Luke Young
Personal information
Full name	Luke Paul Young
Date of birth	19 July 1979 (1979-07-19) (age 29)
Place of birth	Harlow, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position	Right-back/Left Back
Club information
Current club	Aston Villa
Number	2
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1997–2001 2001–2007 2007–2008 2008–	Tottenham Hotspur Charlton Athletic Middlesbrough Aston Villa	058 (0) 187 (4) 035 (1) 034 (1)
National team2
1998–2000 2005	England U21 England	017 (1) 007 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:39, 25 May 2009 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 13:33, 12 July 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Luke Paul Young (born 19 July 1979) is an English footballer, currently playing in the right back position for Aston Villa in the English Premier League, and is also currently an England international.

Contents 1 Family 2 Career 2.1 Tottenham 2.2 Charlton 2.3 Middlesbrough 2.4 Aston Villa 3 International career 4 Honours 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Family

Young was born in Harlow, Essex, and has an older brother, Neil Young, who is also a professional footballer and most notably played for Bournemouth. During Neil's testimonial match, Neil captained the Bournemouth team and brother Luke captained the Charlton Athletic team, who were the opponents. The final score was a 5–2 win for Charlton.

[edit] Career

[edit] Tottenham

Young started his career playing for Tottenham Hotspur in 1997, making over 50 appearances, mainly at full-back. He was transferred to Charlton in 2001, for a fee of £4 million.^[1]

[edit] Charlton

He had made over 180 league appearances for Charlton, once playing alongside Mark Fish, Jorge Costa and Jonathan Fortune in a defence whose last names combined to 'Young Fish Cost a Fortune'. In the spring of 2005 he was voted player of the year by the Charlton fans.

Before Alan Curbishley left Charlton, Young had handed in a transfer request, since he and Curbishley had not got on.^{[citation needed]} After Curbishley left, Young withdrew his transfer request, but after Iain Dowie was appointed manager he reinstated it, citing the club not offering him a new contract even though he still had a year left on his existing contract. The following day Young was offered a new three year deal at The Valley^[2]. On 19 July 2006, Young signed a new four year contract at Charlton.^[3] However, Charlton had a very poor Premiership season, and went through three managers: Iain Dowie, Les Reed, and Alan Pardew (who had been dismissed by West Ham). Charlton finished 19th and were relegated to the Championship. Young requested a transfer, which was accepted. He was then linked with Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United, and Middlesbrough.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Middlesbrough

Young was signed by Middlesbrough for a fee of £2.5 million on a four-year deal in July 2007.^[4] He made his debut for Middlesbrough against Newcastle. His first goal for Middlesbrough, a sizzling long-distance drive into the top corner, came against his former club, Tottenham Hotspur, at The Riverside in a Premiership match on 3 November 2007, with the match ending 1–1.

Young played all but the first 3 games of the season and was nicknamed "Mr.Consistent" by Middlesbrough fans after a very good solid season on Teesside and just missed out on the Middlesbrough fans player of the season award.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Aston Villa

On August 7, 2008, Aston Villa completed the signing of Young in a deal that could reach £6 million^[5], on a three-year contract. Young made his Aston Villa debut in their opening day Premiership fixture against Manchester City, which they won 4–2 thanks to a hat-trick by Gabriel Agbonlahor and a goal from John Carew. He scored his first goal for the club in a 3-2 home victory over Blackburn Rovers, finding the net from close range on the second attempt, an important equaliser on the stroke of half-time. After some solid performances at right-back in the early part of the 2008-09 season, Young has become a fans favourite amongst the Villa supporters.A long term injury to first choice left back Wilfred Bouma has meant that Young has been switched to the left side of defence to cover Bouma's absence, however this has not affected his good run of form.

[edit] International career

Young's first call up to the England team came at the end of the 2004–05 season. His first game for England was on 28 May 2005, when he came on as substitute against the USA with 14 minutes to play. His first full appearance in an England shirt came on 3 September 2005, when he played the full 90 minutes in the World Cup qualifying game against Wales, which England won 1-0. However, due to injury Young failed to make the final England squad for the 2006 World Cup. On 21 March 2007, Steve McClaren drafted Young into the England team for the qualifiers against Israel and Andorra because of injuries to squad members.

As of 12 July 2007 he has played for his country seven times, although the last time he was capped was against Argentina in November 2005. He has been called up by both Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, most recently for the friendly against Spain, but has played for neither. ^[6]

[edit] Honours

Tottenham Hotspur

• Football League Cup: 1999

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Luke Young career stats at Soccerbase
• TheFA.com profile

Sporting positions
Preceded by Matt Holland	Charlton Athletic F.C. captain 2005–2006	Succeeded by Darren Bent
Awards
Preceded by Dean Kiely	Charlton Athletic F.C. Fans' Player of the Year 2004–2005	Succeeded by Darren Bent

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