Justin Hoyte

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Justin Hoyte
Personal information
Full name	Justin Raymond Hoyte
Date of birth	November 20, 1984 (age 22)
Place of birth	London, England
Height	5'11"
Playing position	Full Back
Club information
Current club	Arsenal
Number	31
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002- 2005-2006	Arsenal → Sunderland (loan)	26 (1) 27 (1)
National team2
2004 —	England U21	13 (1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 12:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Justin Raymond Hoyte (born November 20, 1984 in Leytonstone, London) is an English football player who currently plays for Arsenal. He went to Hainault forest high school where he presented several awards for excellence on 28th of March 2007.

[edit] Club career

Hoyte signed professional terms in May 2003. Hoyte is primarily a right-back, but can play anywhere across the back. He is an England U-21 international player with thirteen caps (as of August 2006). He will be eligible for the U-21s until summer 2007.

He made his debut as an 89th minute substitute in Arsenal's 6-1 Premiership victory over Southampton in May 2003. Being down the pecking order, his first few appearances for Arsenal were mostly restricted to League Cup matches, though in 2004-05 he made five league appearances, four of them as starts.

During the summer of 2005, Hoyte was linked with a loan move to Ipswich Town, but Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger made clear he wanted the defender to play Premiership football. Therefore Hoyte instead joined Sunderland, on August 31, 2005 and played for the Black Cats for the entire 2005-06 season, making 31 appearances and scoring 1 goal against Newcastle United in April 2006. He returned to Arsenal at the end of the season.

With Ashley Cole absent from the Arsenal team due to his protracted transfer to Chelsea and Gaël Clichy's injury, Hoyte started the 2006-07 season as Arsenal's left back, starting against both Dinamo Zagreb and Aston Villa. However, he was widely seen as a temporary measure. This was proven when William Gallas signed for Arsenal a few weeks later and took Hoyte's left back position with Hoyte moving back to his preferred right side of defence to cover for the injured Emmanuel Eboué. His first few performances were shaky but improved as he got more and more games under his belt. As of January 2, 2007 he has played 45 times for Arsenal in all competitions.

His first goal for Arsenal came on January 2, 2007 at home against Charlton Athletic. He created history when, slotting the ball past Scott Carson, he became the first Englishman to score for Arsenal in the new Emirates Stadium.

[edit] Family sporting ties

Justin Hoyte's brother Gavin Hoyte, is a youth player at Arsenal, who also plays as a defender. His mother is Wendy Hoyte, a British sprinter and his father is Les Hoyte, a coach at Arsenal and a former sprinter.^{[citation needed]} His uncle, Trevor Hoyte is also former international sprinter.^{[citation needed]}

His cousins include James Naughton,^{[citation needed]} who is on the books of Luton Town, and Jonathan Moore, son of former international athlete Aston Moore.^{[citation needed]} His godfather is Linford Christie.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• Justin Hoyte career stats at Soccerbase

Arsenal F.C. - Current Squad
1 Lehmann | 2 Diaby | 4 Fàbregas | 5 Touré | 6 Senderos | 7 Rosický | 8 Ljungberg | 9 Baptista | 10 Gallas | 11 van Persie | 13 Hleb | 14 Henry | 15 Denílson | 16 Flamini | 19 Gilberto | 20 Djourou | 21 Poom | 22 Clichy | 24 Almunia | 25 Adebayor | 27 Eboué | 30 Aliadière | 31 Hoyte | 32 Walcott | 33 Connolly | 43 Randall | 45 Traoré | Manager: Wenger