Wayne Hennessey
Wayne Robert Hennessey ( born January 24, 1987 in Anglesey ) is a Welsh football goalkeeper. He is under contract at Crystal Palace and is the current Welsh national team.
Sports career
Hennessey grew up on the north-west island of Anglesey in Wales Beaumaris on and joined in June 2003, the Youth Academy of Wolverhampton Wanderers. When the then second division, he signed in April 2005, his first professional contract, but remained for the time being in the squad of junior and reserve team. In order to gain match practice, planned the " Wolves " in July 2006, a loan deal with the third division Bristol City. This was, however, limited to the month of August 2006 due to the sudden injury of trunk goalkeeper Matt Murray; Hennessey also came in the " Robins " due to an arm injury not used.
In January 2007, followed by a second loan deal. For first one months Hennessey played from now on for the fourth division Stockport County. He remained on his debut against Boston United without conceding a goal and five further operations, where he also held up harmless, the loan was extended for an extra month. Finally Hennessey remained stable in nine consecutive games without conceding a goal. He broke ( in combination with the nine victories that have been achieved so ) a 119 years old record of the Football League in February 2007 and received the award for player of the month in the Football League Two. After a total of 15 appearances for Stockport County in April 2007 Hennessey went back to Wolverhampton, where Murray was injured again and had been ready with the Dane January Budtz only a makeshift replacement.
Hennessey sat on the bench and as Murray in the play-off semi-final first leg against West Bromwich Albion broke his shoulder, he made his debut. Although the Wolves ultimately subject to " WBA ", experts and journalists described the acquisition as successful. In the 2007 /08 season Hennessey was goalkeeper, especially since Murray had to fight with other injury problems. He graduated ( with the exception of the League Cup ) all mandatory games, extended his contract until the end of the season 2011/12 and received the appointment to the "Team of the Year" by the Football League Championship and the appointment as " Player of the Season " at the Wolves two personal awards.
With a series of eight wins in nine games earlier in the season 2008/ 09 Hennessey tied initially to its good performance. After a 0-3 defeat against the rise of competitors Reading FC to coach Mick McCarthy decided then, however, to exchange his goalkeeper due to " mental fatigue " by Carl Ikeme who used promptly his chance. Only after injuring Ikeme, Hennessey returned until the end of the season back into the goal, with one extra competitor was put to the side while Ikemes absence through the Borrowing of the experienced Darren Ward. Also in the Premier League is not Hennessey Earn the lasting trust of the coach and fell in rank from November 2009 behind the 37-year veteran Marcus Hahnemann back.
On January 31, 2014, he was obliged by relegation-threatened first division club Crystal Palace.
National
Hennessey made his debut on May 26, 2007, compared New Zealand for the Welsh national team and has since been goalkeeper of the " Dragons ". Previously, he had already played U-19 U -17 and U- 21 for the junior teams. Special attention had to be doing free-kick goal from 35 meters found in a U-19 match against Turkey.