Dean Windass

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Personal information
Dean WINDASS
Full name	Dean Windass
Date of birth	April 1, 1969
Place of birth	Hull, England
Height	5ft 10in
Position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Bradford City
Number	10
Youth clubs
1990-1991	North Ferriby
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1991-1995 1995-1998 1998-1999 1999-2001 2001-2003 2001 2001-2003 2003-	Hull City Aberdeen Oxford United Bradford City Middlesbrough Sheffield Wednesday (loan) Sheffield United (loan) Bradford City	176 (57) 78 (23) 33 (15) 74 (15) 37 (3) 2 (0) 20 (6) 135 (57)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:53, 24 November 2006 (UTC). ** National team caps and goals correct as of 30 August 2006.

Dean Windass (born April 1, 1969 in Hull) is an English footballer

He started his footballing career in non-League with North Ferriby United before a move to Hull City in October 1991, entering professional league football at the relatively late age of 22. Three years later he transferred to Aberdeen for £700,000. During his time at Aberdeen, he gained a reputation as a player who often got into trouble with the authorities. On November 9, 1997, during a league game with Dundee United, Windass contrived to be shown three red cards - once for foul play (having previously been booked); another for verbally abusing the referee, and a third for taking out his frustration on a corner flag as he left the field. This game was the club's last match under the management of Roy Aitken^[1], and Windass himself was to move on at the end of the season. In the three years he spent at Aberdeen he netted 23 goals in 78 League appearances. In July 1998 he moved to Oxford United for £400,000 and remains their record signing to this day. He won a Championship Player of the Month award and scored 15 goals in 33 league games before transfering to Bradford City in March 1999 for £1 million. He helped Bradford City to runners up position in Division One and thus gain promotion to the top division for the first time in nearly 80 years.

He moved to Middlesbrough in March 2001. However he did not become a first team regular at the Riverside, and spent periods on loan at Sheffield Wednesday and rivals Sheffield United before a permanent move to Sheffield United in January 2003. However this only lasted a few months, after which he returned to Bradford City in July 2003.

In September 2006, on Fifa Fair Play day, he was accused of grabbing fellow professional John Finnigan by the testicles during Bradford's 2-1 win over Cheltenham Town. ^[2]

On 19 October 2006 he signed an extension to his Bradford City contract that will see him stay at the club until 2009. He stated an ambition to score the 40 goals he needs to become the club's all time top scorer by the time his new contract ends.^[3]

[edit] References

^ My Dons Hell.
^ "Windass Grabs Victory by the Balls". Retrieved on 2006-09-25.
^ Windass signs new Bradford deal. BBC (2006).

[edit] External links

Dean Windass career stats at Soccerbase

Bradford City A.F.C. - Current Squad
1 Ricketts \| 2 Edghill \| 3 Parker \| 4 Doyle \| 5 Wetherall \| 6 Bower \| 7 Schumacher \| 8 Bridge-Wilkinson \| 9 E. Johnson \| 10 Windass \| 11 Holmes \| 12 J. Johnson \| 13 Howarth \| 15 Muirhead \| 16 Graham \| 18 Penford \| 19 Healy \| 21 Black \| 25 Bentham \| 26 Swift \| 27 Brown \| 28 Colbeck \| 29 Smith \| 30 Saynor \| 31 McGuire \| 32 Ainge \| Manager: Todd