Stuart Elliott
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| Stuart Elliott | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stuart Elliott | |
| Date of birth | July 23, 1978 (age 28) | |
| Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | |
| Height | 5'10' (178cm) | |
| Nickname | Billy, St.Stuart | |
| Playing position | Midfielder | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Hull City | |
| Number | 7 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1998–2000 2000–2002 2002- |
Glentoran Motherwell Hull City |
- (-) 70 (22) 181 (64) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2000- | Northern Ireland | 31 (4) |
|
1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Stuart Elliott (born July 23, 1978) is a Northern Irish professional footballer currently playing for Hull City. He plays as a left-winger, and is known for being one of the best attacking headers of the ball outside the top flight.
Elliott started his career at Glentoran before joining Scottish Premier League club Motherwell. He became a fans favourite at Fir Park and his impressive performances earned him his first cap for Northern Ireland against Malta in September 2000.
In May 2002, Motherwell went into administration and as a result had to sell many of their best players. Elliott joined Hull City for £230,000 and in his first season finished as the club's top scorer in 2002/03 with 12 goals. In 2003/04, he continued to impress and again hit double figures for his club.
As Hull City clinched a place in The Championship in 2004/05, Elliott enjoyed a fantastic season netting 27 goals in the league (which earnt him the golden boot, albeit shared with Dean Windass) as well as 2 in the cup, while also starring for Northern Ireland. This goal scoring tally is perhaps made all the more impressive given that Elliott does not play as a striker and was out for 6 weeks with an injury during mid-season.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Elliott was unable to maintain this incredible goal scoring form in the Championship. In fact, he found himself in-and-out of the team, but despite this he still finished 2005/06 as Hull's top scorer with 7 league goals. In 2006 it was revealed that he was suffering from a form of exercise-induced asthma, which affects his ability to perform for the full ninety minutes. In 2006/07 he has been used as an 'impact player' coming off the bench late in the game, such as in the January 13th match against QPR when he came on with eleven minutes to go and scored twice to give the Tigers a 2-1 victory.[1]
Elliott attended Ashfield Boys School in his native East Belfast, and worked as a window cleaner before becoming a full-time footballer. He was nicknamed "Zico" by fans of Glentoran, after the legendary Brazilian player of the 1980s. He is a born-again Christian, belonging to a demonination of which there are only three churches in the world; these being in Belfast, Motherwell and Hull, which by no coincidence correspond exactly to where he has played his club football.[2]
[edit] External links
- Hull City official club website
- Stuart Elliott career stats at Soccerbase
- Faith & Football: Stuart Elliott speaks
| Hull City A.F.C. - Current Squad |
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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 |
