Stern John

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Stern Christopher John
Personal information
Full name	Stern Christopher James John
Date of birth	October 30, 1976 (age 30)
Place of birth	Trincity, Trinidad and Tobago
Height	180cms
Nickname	Bravo, The Postman,Side Jawn
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Sunderland
Youth clubs
1995	Mercer CC
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996 1997 1997 1998-99 1999-02 2002-04 2004-2007 2005 2007-	Malta Carib Alcons Carolina Dynamo New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers Columbus Crew Nottingham Forest Birmingham City Coventry City → Derby County (loan) Sunderland	005 0(0) 026 (16) 055 (44) 070 (18) 073 (16) 078 (26) 007 0(0) 010 0(4)
National team2
1995-	Trinidad and Tobago	100 (68)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:14, 1 April 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 14 October 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Stern Christopher John (born October 30, 1976 in Trincity, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidadian football player who currently plays for Sunderland He is a centre forward.

John moved to the United States to attend Mercer County Community College in 1995. he joined the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer from the now-defunct New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers of the A-League for the 1998 season. John received a tryout with Crew based on the good word from his older cousin, Columbus Crew defender and Trinidad and Tobago international, Ansil Elcock. With the Crew, he proved to be one of the most prolific scorers in league history. John led the league with 26 goals (and also with 57 points to be named the MLS Scoring Champion) in 1998. He was named to the MLS Best XI that year as well, and tied for the lead with 18 goals in 1999.

After the 1999 season with Columbus, John was acquired by Nottingham Forest of the English First Division for a fee of £1.5 million. However, eventually financial difficulties at Forest following the team's failed bid at promotion forced John's sale to Birmingham City of the FA Premier League for the sum of £100,000, having scored 18 goals in 49 starts for Forest. At Birmingham, John rarely played, having trouble breaking through an accomplished roster of forwards. However when he did play there were some memorable moments in the blue shirt of Birmingham. For example his majestic turn and finish away at West Ham in 2002, or more memorably his last minute equaliser at Villa park in the crunch Birmingham derby. His greatest moment in a Birmingham shirt had to be his last minute goal away at Milwall which put Birmingham through to the Playoff Final in 2002. However after generally falling out of favour he was sold to Coventry on September 14, 2004. In his first season with Coventry, John finished as the team's second highest goalscorer, managing to score 12 goals despite starting in barely half of Coventry's games. At the start of the 2005/06 season, following the signing of James Scowcroft, John found himself outside of Micky Adams's first-team plans. As a result he was loaned to Derby County on September 16, 2005, he rejoined Coventry three months later. Since returning, he has found himself to be rejuvenated and increasingly improving.

John has also been an important player for the Trinidad and Tobago national football team, currently the team's all-time leading scorer with 68 goals in 100 caps (as of October 14, 2006). He played in all three of his country's World Cup group matches at Germany 2006.

On the 29th January, Stern John was transferred to Sunderland AFC for an undisclosed fee. This Signing was Sunderland manager Roy Keane's sixth signing of the 2006-2007 season January tansfer window. he scored his first goals against southend in a 4-0

[edit] External links

• Stern John career stats at Soccerbase
• Soca Warriors Online

	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

Sunderland A.F.C. - Current Squad
2 Wright | 3 Simpson | 4 Evans | 5 Cunningham | 7 Edwards | 8 Whitehead | 9 Stokes | 10 Elliott | 11 Murphy | 12 Nosworthy | 13 Ward | 14 T. Miller | 15 Collins | 16 Hysén | 17 Welsh | 18 Mocquet | 19 Arnau | 20 John | 22 Clarke | 23 Leadbitter | 24 Carson | 27 Varga | 28 Kavanagh | 29 Hartley | 30 Richardson | 31 Connolly | 32 Fülöp | 33 Wallace | 34 Yorke | 36 L. Miller | Manager: Keane