Kenwyne Jones

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Kenwyne Jones
Personal information
Full name	Kenwyne Joel Jones
Date of birth	October 5, 1984 (age 22)
Place of birth	Point Fortin, Trinidad and Tobago
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Southampton
Number	15
Youth clubs
	St. Anthony's College
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002 2002-2004 2004-Present 2004-2005 2005	Joe Public W Connection Southampton →Sheffield Wednesday (loan) →Stoke City (loan)	66 (16) 07 0(7) 13 0(3)
National team2
2003-	Trinidad and Tobago	28 0(2)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 07:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 07:56, 24 December 2006 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Kenwyne Jones (born October 5, 1984) is a Trinidadian football player, who is currently on the books of Southampton. He is a utility player, but has recently been playing as a striker.

Jones began his professional career with Joe Public FC in his native Trinidad, and moved to W Connection in 2002 before being purchased by Southampton in July 2004. He debuted with the Trinidad and Tobago national team January 29, 2003 in a game against Finland.

Jones went out on loan to Football League One club Sheffield Wednesday during December 2004 and although it finished on January 15, 2005, he quickly become a fan favourite with 7 goals in 7 games for the Owls. Following the successful loan spell, Wednesday manager Paul Sturrock failed in his attempts to sign Jones permanently, offering only half of Southampton's original fund to bring him to the South Coast.

Following Southampton's relegation from the Premiership in May 2005 a number of competing forwards were sold and Jones started season 2005-06 as a key member of the squad with the responsibility for scoring the goals to make the Saints contenders for a return to the top flight. During a transitional period for Southampton, managerial change and boardroom unrest took its effect on the players. Having used 41 different players in the 2005-06 season (most were sold to cut costs) it was only towards the end that new manager George Burley began to develop a squad from those that remained.

In the 2006-07 season, Jones has become an established member of the strike-force and has appeared in most games, and is forming a good relationship with his strike partners, Grzegorz Rasiak and Bradley Wright-Phillips. Unfortunately, this is not producing sufficient goals, and manager George Burley has admitted that he needs to sign a new striker if Southampton are to achieve promotion. [1]

On 26 December 2006, he received the first red card of his career for a push on Mark Hudson in the match against Crystal Palace[2], resulting in a 3-match suspension.

[edit] External links

• Kenwyne Jones career stats at Soccerbase

Southampton F.C. - Current Squad
1 Davis | 2 Östlund | 3 Pelé | 4 Saganowski | 5 Lundekvam | 6 Powell | 7 Skácel | 8 Wright-Phillips | 9 Rasiak | 10 Wright | 11 Svensson | 12 Lička | 15 Jones | 17 Belmadi | 18 Dyer | 19 Makin | 21 Baird | 22 Bale | 23 Viáfara | 24 Guthrie | 25 Poke | 26 Miller | 27 Best | 28 Białkowski | 29 Surman | 34 James | 41 Lallana | Manager: Burley

	Trinidad and Tobago squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup
1 Hislop | 2 Cox | 3 A. John | 4 Andrews | 5 Sancho | 6 Lawrence | 7 Birchall | 8 Gray | 9 Whitley | 10 Latapy | 11 Edwards | 12 Samuel | 13 Glen | 14 S. John | 15 Jones | 16 Wise | 17 Charles | 18 Theobald | 19 Yorke | 20 Scotland | 21 Jack | 22 Ince | 23 Wolfe | Coach: Beenhakker