Zat Knight
Zat Knight at Aston Villa (2008)
Zatyiah " Zat " Knight ( born 2 May 1980 in Solihull ) is an English footballer. The central defender is currently at Bolton Wanderers signed and completed in 2005, two caps for the English national team.
Sports career
Fulham FC (1999-2007)
The dark-skinned Englishman played in the youth team of Rushall Olympic and changed on 19 February 1999 for Fulham. Since Knight was as full age athletes with no contractual obligations, the FC Fulham was not in the obligation to pay a transfer fee; However, the club sent as a "small thank you" 30 tracksuits on "Olympic".
However, at his first official matches of the tall central defender came only a year later in the fourth division, as the FC Fulham loaned him to Peterborough United from February to May 2005. He played there for eight championship games and upon his return to West London, he came in the season 2000 /01 in the League Cup for the first time in the Profielf the " Cottagers " for the course. On September 22, 2001 he was in the 1-0 away win against Leicester City Knights first Premier League game. The final breakthrough celebrated the former U-21 international, who had played in 2002, also at the U -21 European Championship in Switzerland two games in the season 2003/04. In the two seasons after that he was top performers in the central defense composite Fulham and scored his first four competitive goal. After the injury of Luís Boa Morte Knight was also temporarily Team Captain. In May 2005 he stood within three days in two international matches of the English national team against the USA ( 2-1) and Colombia ( 3-2 ) during a tour of the United States.
Aston Villa ( 2007-09 )
On 29 August 2007 signed Knight for a transfer fee of 3.5 million pounds a new four-year contract at Aston Villa. Just hours before Knight was arrested with his brother and another person in Birmingham - the brother had to play it because of a drugs-related offense the transition to prison, while Zat Knight was accused of any crime in the year. Nevertheless, Knight scored on his debut for Villa 's 2-0 victory against Chelsea on 2 September 2007, a goal. In the battle for positions in central defense to Knight competing Martin Laursen and Curtis Davies was suspended and coach Martin O'Neill led by a steady rotation. Due to a violation of Laursen, the use number of Knight increased in the meantime something.
Bolton Wanderers (since 2009)
On July 25, 2009 Knight hired on for three years at Bolton Wanderers. The amount of the transfer fee, the parties kept silence, and they have been suspected in the English press, an amount of about four million pounds .. On August 15, 2009 Knight was in the 0-1 home defeat against AFC Sunderland its debut in Bolton.