Luke Young (footballer)

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Luke Young
[1]
Personal information
Full name	Luke Paul Young
Date of birth	July 19, 1979 (age 27)
Place of birth	Harlow, Essex, England
Height	183 cm (6 ft)
Playing position	Right-back
Club information
Current club	Charlton Athletic
Number	2
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1997–2001 2001–-	Tottenham Hotspur Charlton Athletic	058 (0) 178 (4)
National team2
2005-	England	007 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:11, 3 March 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of May 19, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Luke Paul Young (born 19 July 1979 in Harlow, Essex) is an English footballer, currently playing with Charlton Athletic.

Contents 1 Family 2 Career 3 Miscellaneous 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] Family

Luke has an older brother who is also a professional Footballer. Neil Young, who plays for A.F.C. Bournemouth. During Neil's testimonial match, Neil captained the AFC Bournemouth team and brother Luke captained the Charlton Athletic team, who were the opponents. The final score was a 5-2 win for Charlton Athletic. Luke also has a younger brother who is currently at West Ham's Youth Academy.

[edit] Career

Luke started his career playing for Tottenham Hotspur in 1997, making over 50 appearances, mainly at full-back. He was transferred to Charlton in 2001, for a fee of £4 million. He has made over 120 appearances for Charlton, once playing alongside Mark Fish, Jorge Costa and Jonathan Fortune in a defence whose last names combined to 'Young Fish Costa Fortune'.

In the spring of 2005 he was voted player of the year by the Charlton fans, and this was soon followed by a call-up to the English national team. His first game for England was on 28 May 2005, when he came on as substitute against the USA with 14 minutes to play. His first full appearance in an England shirt came on 3 September 2005, when he played the full 90 minutes in the World Cup qualifying game against Wales, which England won 1-0. As of 13 November 2005 he has played for his country seven times. On the 21st March 2007 Steve Mclaren drafted Luke into the England team for the qualifiers against Israel and Andorra because of injuries to squad members.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Before Alan Curbishley left Charlton Athletic Luke Young had handed in a transfer request, since he and Curbishley had not got on. After Curbishley left Young withdrew his transfer request, but after Iain Dowie was appointed Charlton manager he once again put in a transfer request, citing the club not offering him a new contract, even though he still had a year left on his existing contract. The following day Young was offered a new three year deal at The Valley,^[1] but seemed intent on traveling to West Ham United. Many speculated this was because he wanted to be at a bigger club, and to play in the UEFA Cup. West Ham had offered Charlton £3.8 million for Young, but the Charlton Chairman Richard Murray wanted to keep him at The Valley.

On 4 July 2006 West Ham decided to move on after it is believed Charlton boss Iain Dowie persuaded Young to remain at Charlton. However, there is continued speculation in the press that Young decided to stay with Charlton only because he failed a medical conducted by West Ham^{[citation needed]}. On 19 July 2006, Luke Young signed a new four year contract at Charlton Athletic.^[2]

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• TheFA.com profile
• Luke Young career stats at Soccerbase

Charlton Athletic F.C. - Current Squad

2 Young | 3 Hreiðarsson | 4 Faye | 5 Reid | 7 M. Bent | 8 Holland | 9 Zheng | 10 D. Bent | 11 Ambrose | 12 Lisbie | 14 Thomas | 15 El Karkouri | 16 Song | 17 Gibbs | 18 Hasselbaink | 19 Rommedahl | 20 Hughes | 22 Bougherra | 23 Diawara | 27 Elliot | 28 Sankofa | 30 Weston | 32 Thatcher | 33 Randolph | 34 Tanska | 35 Ashton | 36 Myhre | 37 Walker | 38 Carson | 39 Gíslason | –– Dickson | Manager: Pardew