Steve Vickers (footballer)

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Personal information
Steve Vickers
Full name	Stephen Vickers
Date of birth	13 October 1967 (1967-10-13) (age 40)
Place of birth	Bishop Auckland, England
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position	Defender (retired)
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1984–1985 1985–1993 1993–2001 2001 2001 2001–2003	Spennymoor United Tranmere Rovers Middlesbrough → Crystal Palace (loan) → Birmingham City (loan) Birmingham City Career	311 (11) 258 0(8) 006 0(0) 005 0(0) 014 0(1) 594 (20)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Stephen "Steve" Vickers (born 13 October 1967), is an English former association footballer who played as a central defender. He made nearly 600 appearances in the Football League and the Premier League, the majority of which were for Tranmere Rovers and Middlesbrough.

[edit] Playing career

Born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, Vickers began his professional career at Tranmere Rovers, who signed him from local non-league outfit Spennymoor United, and where he forged a reputation as one of the classiest defenders in England's lower leagues. He subsequently played in England's Premier League with Middlesbrough, whom he joined in 1993, winning the club's Player of the Year Award for the 1993–94 season. He was loaned to Crystal Palace in 2001, then to Birmingham City a season later. This deal was then made permanent for £400,000, and Vickers helped them gain promotion to the Premiership. Vickers retired from playing at the end of an injury-plagued 2002–03, which included a knee operation before the start of the season, a broken rib in his first game back,^[1] a badly-gashed ankle following a two-footed challenge from Everton's Wayne Rooney which resulted in Rooney's first senior red card,^[2] and a succession of minor problems.^[3] After his retirement from playing, he went into property development in his native north-east of England.^[4]

He is currently a soccer coach for a non-league club.

[edit] References

^ Hill, Graham. "Steve's time running out", Sunday Mercury, 2003-01-19. Retrieved on 2008-02-26.
^ Culley, Jon. "Rooney finds out the hard way for Everton", The Independent, 2002-12-27. Retrieved on 2008-02-26.
^ Clarkson, Ian. "A blast from the past", Sunday Mercury, 2004-02-08. Retrieved on 2008-02-26.
^ Tallentire, Richard. "Where are they now? 10 years at the Riverside", Evening Gazette, 2005-08-24. Retrieved on 2008-02-26.

[edit] External links

Steve Vickers career stats at Soccerbase

Persondata
NAME	Vickers, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vickers, Stephen
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	1967-10-13
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH