Michael Duberry

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Michael Duberry
Personal information
Full name	Michael Wayne Duberry
Date of birth	14 October 1975 (1975-10-14) (age 32)
Place of birth	Enfield, England
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.87 m)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Reading
Number	29
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993–1999 1995 1999–2005 2004–2005 2005–2007 2007–	Chelsea → Bournemouth (loan) Leeds United → Stoke City (loan) Stoke City Reading	87 (1) 07 (0) 57 (4) 15 (0) 80 (1) 21 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 May 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Michael Wayne Duberry (born 14 October 1975 in Enfield) is an English footballer. He attended Enfield Grammar School in north London.

Duberry started at Chelsea where he was a trainee and made his début during the 1993–94 season, before a brief loan period with Bournemouth. Duberry made a total of 115 appearances for Chelsea and scored 3 goals, including one in a 2-1 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford in 1996. He won the League Cup, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and the European Super Cup with Chelsea, all in 1998, but faced stiff competition for a place in the side from the likes of Marcel Desailly and Frank Leboeuf. Seeking regular football, Duberry eventually requested a transfer and moved to Leeds United in June 1999 for £4.5 million.

However, he again failed to break into the first team, as the likes of Jonathan Woodgate, Dominic Matteo and Rio Ferdinand took Leeds to the Champions League semi-finals. He was involved in a court case with Leeds team-mates Jonathan Woodgate and Lee Bowyer. The first season in which he played regularly for Leeds was 2003–04, as by this time Lucas Radebe had become increasingly injury-prone and crippling debt had forced the sales of Ferdinand and Woodgate. Unfortunately, however, Duberry failed to impress in a defence often made up of loan signings (such as Zoumana Camara and Didier Domi) and then youth-team players (such as Frazer Richardson and Matthew Kilgallon).

When Leeds suffered relegation to the Football League he stayed on for a season until Leeds manager, Kevin Blackwell allowed him to move to Stoke City where he went on to become a first team regular and club captain. All 80 of his appearances for the club were as a starter, not once did he feature on the bench.

On 31 January 2007, Duberry signed for Reading, who invoked a clause in his contract that allowed him to leave Stoke for a Premier League club if a set fee was received, rumoured to be in the region of £800,000.^[1] He made his league début for Reading on 24 February 2007 in their 2-0 defeat away to Middlesbrough.^[2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Michael Duberry profile at readingfc.co.uk
• Michael Duberry career stats at Soccerbase

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Persondata
NAME	Duberry, Michael Wayne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	14 October 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Enfield, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH