Andy Reid (footballer)
Andy Reid in 2007
Andrew Matthew "Andy" Reid ( born July 29, 1982 in Dublin) is an Irish football player who is active for the English second division Nottingham Forest since 2011.
Clubs
Nottingham Forest
In 1998, Reid from Ireland to Nottingham Forest. At first he was employed in the youth team with which he surprisingly won the British Youth Championship in the 1999/00 season. On 29 November 2000 he made his debut in the first team against Sheffield United and scored his first goal equal. Nottingham was relegated from the Premier League in the 1998/99 season and was also in the season 2000/2001 is still in transition. Coach David Platt had brought many new players, it rarely had a lucky hand. At the end of the season he was fired and replaced by Reid's former youth coach Paul Hart.
Also under new coach Forest was far from a promotion to the first division and had rather struggling with serious financial problems. Reid came in 30 games for use, but not score. 2002/ 03 finally succeeded for the entry into the play-off semi-final by a sixth place in the table. There, however, Reid failed (31 games / 2 goals) and his team at Sheffield United. The following year coach Paul Hart was released early February 2004 and replaced by Joe Kinnear, who reached the meantime endangered relegation with the team. Andy Reid (46 Spiele/13 goals) succeeded in this season final breakthrough and was chosen as the award for his good performances in the PFA Team of the Year the second division. 2004/ 05 rose from Forest in the third division. Reid (25 games / 5 goals) was changed already during the season along with Michael Dawson together for approximately 8,000,000 pounds to Tottenham Hotspur.
Tottenham Hotspur
Reid celebrated on 5 February 2005 his debut in the Premier League 2004 /05 in a 3-1 victory over Portsmouth. Coach Martin Jol was convinced of the quality of his new acquisition, and put him in the course of the season is often a. In May 2005, he scored in the 5-1 victory over Aston Villa his first and only goal for Tottenham. In a total of 26 league games it was therefore with only one goal, and in August 2006 he was sold for 3,000,000 pounds to Charlton Athletic.
Charlton Athletic
His new team was active in the first division, but increased in the 2006/07 season in the second division from. Reid earned himself a regular place and was also in the following second-division season to the service providers, before he opted for a return to the Premier League and the end of January 2008, 3 1/2 year contract with AFC Sunderland signed. In total, he scored eight goals in 38 games for Charlton.
Sunderland AFC
9th February 2008 Reid made his debut against Wigan Athletic, scoring end of March 2008 his first goal for Sunderland. The team reached in the Premier League 2007 /08 as a newly promoted League position 15, and thus the league. The next year brought back a 16th place ranking in the lower third of the table and a long battle against relegation. But the Premier League 2009/10 was complete without relegation worries. Especially striker Darren Bent made with 24 league goals for an average place in the table. Reid earned under manager Steve Bruce a place in the left side of midfield and contributed his part to the good season.
After Andy Reid rarely found in the following period his place in the starting line- he joined in late October 2010 on loan to second division club Sheffield United in the Football League Championship 2010/11. At the end of the lending agreement, Reid was transferred on 31 January 2011 to the first division club FC Blackpool.
Nottingham Forest
After his contract was not renewed in Blackpool, Andy Reid decided in early July 2011 for a return to Nottingham and signed a two -year contract with the club, coached by Steve McClaren.
National
In the Irish national football team he has so far played 27 games and scored 4 goals in the qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany. With Ireland since its debut in 2003, he succeeded not qualify for an international tournament. Even in qualifying for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa failed the Irish national team. After a second place in Group 8 behind world champions Italy, Ireland lost in two play - off matches against France unhappy. Under the new coach Giovanni Trapattoni Reid lost his place. After he at least found himself in the first three qualifying games on the bench, he did not even since heard on the squad.