Dean Windass

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Personal information
Dean Windass
Full name	Dean Windass
Date of birth	April 1, 1969 (age 38)
Place of birth	Hull, England
Height	5ft 10in
Nickname	Deano
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Hull City (on loan from Bradford City)
Number	20
Youth clubs
1990-1991	North Ferriby
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991-1995 1995-1998 1998-1999 1999-2001 2001-2003 2001 2002 2003 2003- 2007	Hull City Aberdeen Oxford United Bradford City Middlesbrough → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) → Sheffield United (loan) Sheffield United Bradford City → Hull City (loan)	176 (57) 078 (23) 033 (15) 074 (15) 037 0(3) 002 0(0) 004 0(3) 016 0(3) 142 (60) 012 0(7)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of March 31, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Dean Windass (born April 1, 1969 in Hull) is an English footballer. He is currently on loan to Hull City, the club that he first joined, from Bradford City.

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. Finnigan was then sent off for violent conduct after hitting Windass. ^[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] However, on 17 January 2007, it was confirmed that Dean Windass would return to Hull City on loan until the end of the season.^[4]

[edit] References

^ My Dons Hell.
^ "Windass Grabs Victory by the Balls". Retrieved on 2006-09-25.
^ Windass signs new Bradford deal. BBC (2006).
^ Hull capture Windass in loan deal. BBC Sport (2007).

[edit] External links

Dean Windass career stats at Soccerbase

Hull City A.F.C. - Current Squad
1 Myhill \| 2 Doyle \| 3 Dawson \| 4 Ashbee \| 5 Coles \| 6 Turner \| 7 Elliott \| 8 Barmby \| 9 Forster \| 10 McPhee \| 12 Duke \| 14 Parlour \| 16 Delaney \| 17 Bridges \| 19 Welsh \| 20 Windass \| 21 Ricketts \| 22 Marney \| 23 Collins \| 24 Livermore \| 26 Vaz Té \| 27 Peltier \| 28 Fry \| 29 France \| 33 Plummer \| 34 Featherstone \| 36 Aspden \| 37 Wilkinson \| Manager: Brown