Darren Potter

Darren Michael Potter ( born December 21, 1984 in Liverpool) is an Irish football player. The central midfielder was in his hometown both in the youth team of Everton FC and Liverpool FC active, but could the latter club in the professional department ultimately prevail not. Currently, the Irish international is active for the second division club Sheffield Wednesday.

Sports career

Potter was active at a young age already in the youth departments of three renowned English football clubs. He started at Everton and returned via the detour of Blackburn Rovers at the age of 15 years in his hometown, where he was henceforth formed in the "Liverpool Academy". In the professional team of FC Liverpool he came mostly outside the Premier League to the course. He made his debut on 10 August 2004 in the Champions League qualifier against Grazer AK on as a substitute in the 85th minute for Steve Finnan - the game ended with a 2-0 away win - and stood in the return match against the Austrians on the full game time on the field. In the team that ultimately the " European crown " won, he came one last time in the first knockout round first leg against Bayer 04 Leverkusen to a 5 -minute short-term use. After Potter came against Charlton Athletic and on April 23, 2005 on 1 February 2005 against Crystal Palace in his first (and only ) Premier League appearances for Liverpool, he remained in the squad for the Champions League final against AC Milan disregarded. In the following season 2005/ 06 he was primarily active in the early phase of the Champions League and was from then loaned out to second division.

From January 2006 he first played for Southampton FC and moved to his return at the end of the season 2005/ 06 directly to Wolverhampton to playing there " Wolves " on. He was here in good shape, what the Wolverhampton Wanderers prompting, for £ 250,000 to undertake Potter in January 2007 and permanently endow him with a contract for 3 ½ years. However, the 2007/ 08 brought setbacks with and coach Mick McCarthy opened Potter the possibility of a change by the end of January 2008. This leaning of only a year previously committed players from, however, remained in Wolverhampton until the end of the season, before moving to mutual agreement was finally put on the transfer list. Since there was no buyer in the summer of 2008, they opened him the opportunity to get a place in the team fight back. However, without further application to get minutes, he moved in January 2009 on loan to Sheffield Wednesday where he succeeded already in his first race after 16 minutes, a long-range goal against Charlton Athletic ( 4-1 ).

On 10 July 2009, he signed with the " Owls " in Sheffield a new contract, the parties agreed not to disclose games on the transfer fee.

Irish national

After Potter had been in various Irish youth national teams and it stood in the squad for the Junior World Championship in the United Arab Emirates in 2003, he came on 23 May 2007 against Ecuador in New York's Giants Stadium for his first international match for the Irish national team.