Adam Stansfield

Adam Stansfield ( born September 10, 1978 in Tiverton, † 10 August 2010) was an English footballer. The striker played for Yeovil Town and Exeter City in English professional football.

Sports career

Stanfield played in the youth of Cullompton Rangers, Elmore FC before he joined. After graduating from tryouts with several höherklasig gambling clubs, he joined in 2001 Yeovil Town in the Conference National at. In the first year with his new club with eight goals this season, a performer, he had to pause almost the entire season in the subsequent season after a complicated fracture. Therefore, he added, with only a league application to the rise of the club in the Third Division, at that time the lowest flight of League football. After his recovery, he was a reserve player and came in his first professional season mainly as a substitute for use.

Therefore Stanfield returned to the Conference National and joined Hereford United on. There he impressed as a regular scorer and led the club with 19 goals this season in the promotion round, but in the club failed in the semifinals. The following season started disappointingly for the striker, as he could not score a goal for a long time. In the meantime, without regular place in the forward line, he fought against the end of the season in the team back and went with the club at the end of the season in League football on.

However, Stanfield left the club and signed up at Exeter City in the Conference National at. Again, a regular scorer, he managed the club in 2008 his third rise in League football. In the Football League Two, he scored ten goals this season and was one of the guarantors that the club marched through in the third-class Football League One. Again, he was one of the prolific players and scored seven goals this season until April.

In April 2010, a colon cancer was found in Stanfield. In August, he succumbed to the disease.