Jon Otsemobor

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Personal information
Jon Ostemobor
Full name	Jon Ostemobor
Date of birth	March 23, 1983
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Crewe Alexandra
Number	2
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
2002-2005 2003 (loan) 2004 (loan) 2005-2006 2004-2005 (Loan) 2006-Present	Liverpool Hull City Bolton Wanderers Rotherham United Crewe Alexandra Crewe Alexandra	4 (0) 9 (3) 1 (0) 10 (0) 14 (1) 35 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Jon Ostemobor (born 23 March 1983, Liverpool) is a professional Football (soccer) player who plays for Crewe Alexandra. Ostemobor is a defender who can play as centre-back or full-back.

1 Liverpool
2 Rotherham United
3 Crewe Alexandra
4 References

[edit] Liverpool

Ostemobor signed for Liverpool as a trainee on 1 July 2002. He made his debut for the club in Liverpool's 3-1 win over Southampton in the league cup. He was loaned out to Hull City for the rest of the season to gain some first team experience. Ostemobor scored his first career goal for Hull, in their 4-2 defeat to Rushden & Diamonds, also scoring in Hull's 2-0 win over Shrewsbury Town and the 2-1 defeat at Wrexham. In the 2003/2004 season, Ostemobor played 5 more games for Liverpool, making appearances in the 1-1 draw with Newcastle United and the 3-1 win over Bolton Wanderers. He also appeared in the newspapers in October 2003, when he was shot in his backside during a gun incident in a bar. He was then loaned out again, this time to Bolton Wanderers where he only played one game, which was Bolton's 3-1 defeat to Manchester City. Ostemobor was then loaned out to Crewe Alexandra on a season long loan. He made his debut for Crewe in the 3-0 win over Watford. He scored one goal during his loan at Crewe, which was in the 2-2 draw with Leicester City.

[edit] Rotherham United

Ostemobor signed for Rotherham United on 5 July 2005 on a free transfer from Liverpool. At Rotherham, Ostemobor made eight appearances and scored one goal for the club before being sold again, this time on a free transfer to Crewe Alexandra.

[edit] Crewe Alexandra

Ostemobor signed for Crewe Alexandra on 19 January 2006. Although it wasn't his actual debut, he made his first appearance as a permanent Crewe player in the 2-1 defeat to Plymouth Argyle. Ostemobor, along with Steve Foster, Madjid Bougherra and Billy Jones were considered the main reason for Crewe's final attempt for safety in the final few months of the 2005/2006 season, which eventually failed. Ostemobor also appeared in all of the games during Crewe's five game undeafeated streak.

During pre-season, in June 2006, Otsemobor failed to return to training on an agreed date. From 9th June 2006 to 14th June 2006, club manager Dario Gradi failed to make contact with Otsemobor and reasons for his absence were unknown.^[1] On June 14, 2006 Otsemobor returned to Crewe citing a long holiday and mis-understanding as the reason he missed training.^[2]