Wayne Routledge
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| Wayne Routledge | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Wayne Routledge | |
| Date of birth | January 7, 1985 (age 22) | |
| Place of birth | Sidcup, London, England | |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in / 1.69 m | |
| Playing position | Midfielder | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Fulham (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur) |
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| Number | 22 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2001 - 2005 2005 — Jan-May 2006 Aug 2006 — |
Crystal Palace Tottenham Hotspur → Portsmouth (loan) → Fulham (loan) |
110 (11) 3 (0) 13 (0) 19 (0) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2004 — | England U21 | 9 (1) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Wayne Routledge (born January 7, 1985 in Sidcup, London)) and attended The Archbishop Lanfranc School (Croydon) is an English footballer, who currently plays for Premier League club Fulham on loan from Tottenham Hotspur. He plays as a midfielder predominantly on the right wing but can also play on the left. He has represented England at under-16, under-19 and under-21 level.
Routledge began his career at Crystal Palace, making his starting debut (against Wolves) at the age of 17 in September 2002, and scored after just one minute on the field.
He was ever present as Palace battled for their Premiership place in 2004-05 and, although they just failed to avoid the drop, Routledge proved to be an exciting talent on the wing, chipping in with an impressive 8 assists. He was not to leave the top flight, though. After rejecting a contract with the side that developed him as a youngster in January, Spurs snapped him up on July 1, 2005. The clubs could not come to an agreement over a fee for Routledge so the transfer went to a tribunal. There it was agreed that Palace would receive an initial £1.25m, rising to £2m depending upon appearances in future.
After impressing in the pre-season, His career at White Hart Lane started slowly as he unfortunately suffered a broken foot on his league debut for the club, but on December 12, 2005 he made his return as a substitute in only his second game for Spurs against Portsmouth.
He was loaned to Portsmouth in the January 2006 transfer window and made 13 appearances for them before returning to Spurs at the season's end.
After impressing in the pre-season again, he was once again loaned out, this time to Fulham, as part of the deal that brought Steed Malbranque to the White Hart Lane Club. This was also partly due to the emergence of Aaron Lennon at both club and International level.
He was England's second ever player to score at Wembley
[edit] External links
- Wayne Routledge career stats at Soccerbase
- Photos and stats at sporting-heroes.net
- Profile at 4thegame.com
- Profile at premierleague.com
- Wayne Routledge Official Website at Icons.com
- Wayne Routledge's Myspace
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2 Volz | 3 Bocanegra | 4 Queudrue | 5 Christanval | 6 Knight | 7 Rosenior | 8 Brown | 9 Helguson | 11 Montella | 12 Laštůvka | 13 Radzinski | 14 Bouba Diop | 15 John | 16 Jensen | 17 Elliott | 19 Pearce | 20 McBride | 21 Bullard | 22 Routledge | 23 Dempsey | 24 Pembridge | 25 Davies | 26 Collins | 27 Elrich | 28 Milsom | 29 Niemi | 32 Omozusi | 37 Smertin | Manager: Coleman |
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