Andy Keogh
Andrew Declan "Andy" Keogh [ kjoʊ ] ( born May 16, 1986 in Dublin) is an Irish football player. The striker - preferably in the role as a center forward, but occasionally as a winger or something trailing striker - is the English first division club FC Millwall under contract and is an Irish national team.
Sports career
Born in the south of Dublin Keogh began playing football at the local Cabinteely FC and St. Joseph's Boys, before he went to the youth department of Leeds United at the age of 16 years to England; an offer of Wolverhampton Wanderers he had refused. The club Leeds lent him early in the season 2004/ 05 from the fourth division Scunthorpe United.
After his league debut, which had ended on 7 August 2004, a 3-1 win against AFC Rochdale, he scored for his second score in the 2-0 win at Cheltenham Town. In twelve games get him a total of two goals for Scunthorpe United; then his club called him back to Leeds because the injury situation came to a head in the first team. Nevertheless, he remained until the end of 2004 with the exception of a Cup wager on without obligation League game for Leeds. He was instead used permanently in the Reserveelf. In January 2005, he joined a second time on loan in the fourth division, where he was to replace the migrated to Preston North End David Nugent now at Bury FC.
Staying in Bury was short- lived, as Scunthorpes coach Brian Laws Leeds United successfully transfer bid of around £ 50,000, submitted in February 2005, and that Keogh was playing for Scunthorpe United on 14 February 2005. There in the rest of the season he scored a goal and was part of the team that rose behind Yeovil Town in the third-class Football League One.
The sporty breakthrough Keogh in the season 2005/06. He played together with the Billy Sharp committed by Sheffield United in the storm; together achieved by the two 19 -year-olds 38 goals, 15 of them Keogh. In the FA Cup Keogh scored in the third round in the 1-3 defeat at the first division Manchester City a goal against England international goalkeeper David James. The duo Keogh / Sharp was characterized by complementarity qualities. While Sharp showed total prolific, Keogh was technically accomplished and versatile, served as a ball safe scan station and more at launched offensives often made on the wing. The performance gain remained höherklassigeren clubs not hidden and so moved Keogh after another half season on 23 January 2007 on the Wolverhampton Wanderers, who played at the time in the second-rate Football League Championship. The transfer fee was 600,000 pounds plus additional erfolgsabhängigener bonus payments of up to 250,000 pounds.
Even in the higher division was Keogh immediately good performance; while the opposing coach of Queens Park Rangers called him after the 0-2 defeat of his club as " one of the best commitments of the season." With five goals, he helped in the remaining games of the season that the " Wolves " reached a place in the play -offs, their semi-final was lost to West Bromwich Albion. In recognition he received the prestigious jersey number 9, which is traditionally supported by the key players in the penalty area before the start of the subsequent season 2007 /08. With eleven competitive game hits throughout the season, he was second best scorer of his club, but with access to the committed in January 2008 Sylvan Ebanks -Blake alone twelve hits in the second half of the season.
In addition to the better scorer Ebanks -Blake properties of then also attended the additional new purchase Chris Iwelumo Charlton Athletic that Keogh was in his 42 missions in the promotion season of 2008/ 09 21 - times not initially participate in the team. Nevertheless, he signed a new contract in February 2009 in Wolverhampton, which bound him to the end of the 2011/12 season at the club. At the start of the Premier League season 2009/10 benefited Keogh violations of competitors Ebanks- Blake, Iwelumo and the other new signing Kevin Doyle; thus he was back regularly in the starting lineup and scored the only goal in a 1-0 victory at Wigan Athletic, the first Premier League away success ( and the first Erstligaauswärtssieg since 1984) in the history of Wolves simultaneously.
In August 2010, Andy Keogh joined on loan to Cardiff City in the Football League Championship. Originally, the lending for the entire 2010/11 season was created, yet he changed the end of January 2011 after 16 league games, and helped the Leihklub henceforth at Bristol City - also in the second division - from.
At the beginning of the 2011/12 season Keogh moved again on loan to Leeds United.
Irish national
After injury-related cancellation of Caleb Folan Keogh received in March 2007 under the then active coach Steve Staunton his first nomination to the squad of the Irish national team. He completed the first international match on 24 May 2007 in the friendly match against Ecuador in New York's Giants Stadium, which ended in a 1-1 draw. Then he came in three qualifying matches for Euro 2008 course. In the first game under the new athletic director Giovanni Trapattoni he shot exactly one year after his debut in the 1-1 draw in a friendly against Serbia his first goal for Ireland - the volley shot on the turn even later received the award for Ireland's " Goal of the Year ".