Charlie Oatway

Charlie Oatway (2011)

Anthony Philip David Terry Frank Donald Stanley Gerry Gordon Stephen James " Charlie" Oatway ( born November 28, 1973 in Hammersmith ) is a retired English footballer. His professional career spanned between 1994 and 2007 thirteen years he spent on a total of five professional clubs. Since his retirement from professional football in August 2007, he is acting in a personal union as a player and Kotrainer for unterklassigen club Havant & Waterlooville.

Career as a professional footballer

After his initial station at FC Yeading Oatway moved in 1994 to the third highest English league for the Welsh club Cardiff City. There he had to descend into the Viertklassigkeit accept and only a short time later he joined in December 1995, the league rivals Torquay United on. There, however, the sporting successes were made ​​as well and so Oatway marked with his new club, the bottom side of the " Third Division " said fourth league. The descent into Fünftklassigkeit did not materialize, as the Master of the Nationwide Conference lacked the economic conditions for participation in the professional league and so Oatway played another year in the seaside town of Torquay. He finished the season 1996/97 on the 21st place in the table (with 24 clubs ) and subsequently joined ultimately to Brentford FC.

Although he was so active again in the third highest league, he also found there is no sporting luck. The team that had played in the previous season yet for the promotion to the second division, found himself with Oatway again in a relegation battle again and Oatway was also borrowed from October to November 1998 Lincoln City. However, a peculiar feature is the fact that Oatway played in Brentford, as in Cardiff and Torquay, under manager Eddie May. Oatway increased with Brentford FC from the fourth league and moved to Brighton & Hove Albion only one season later.

In Brighton Oatways career took a positive turn. Already in his second season he won the 2001 fourth league championship, leaving only a year later with a further rise of the direct walkover in the " First Division " ( the then second highest league in England ) follow. There, the team was not able to hold and immediately rose again in the third league, but only a year later Oatway could accomplish his second promotion to the second division. His last game for the " Seagulls " he completed on December 26, 2005, in the 1-0 win over Queens Park Rangers. A serious ankle injury eventually prevented the continuation of his professional career and on 3 August 2007 Oatway announced the end of his playing career in Brighton.

Away from the football

Oatways full name is " Anthony Philip David Terry Frank Donald Stanley Gerry Gordon Stephen James Oatway ". Behind this unusually high number of name hides the fact that his parents were designated supporters of Queens Park Rangers and her son subsequently furnished them with the name of the full first team QPR in 1973. When the parents of the newborn aunt opened the name, uttered these that the baby " just like a real Charlie look," and this nickname ultimately prevailed.