Elliott Ward
Elliott Ward ( born January 19, 1985 in Harrow, London) is an English footballer. The defender has since 2013 at AFC Bournemouth under contract. His brother Darren is also a professional footballer in England.
Club career
Ward came in 2001 as a youth player at West Ham United and moved in 2003 to the senior squad. In the season 2004/ 05 he was briefly at Peterborough United and Bristol Rovers on loan. In the second round he came to his first appearances for West Ham, mainly due to the injury of defender Christian Dailly and Malky Mackay. On the side of Anton Ferdinand West Ham lost only one of eleven league games and thus reached the playoffs rise to the Premier League. Even there he was in all three games used and managed with West Ham 's return to the English top flight football.
At the beginning of the season 2005/ 06 undertook West Ham defender Danny Gabbidon among other things, and James Collins, which Ward fell again from the root formation. In the following years he was very little inserts and so he was given for three months in the second division club Plymouth Argyle. In February 2006 he returned to West Ham and came to end of the season to three other stakes in the Premier League.
Coventry City
Although Ward had signed a new four-year contract at West Ham in August 2005, he joined in the summer of 2006 for a million pounds to the second division club Coventry City and signed a contract until 2010 there. Ward was the first million transfer for Coventry City since the signing of Lee Hughes in 2001. Among manager Iain Dowie Ward was from February 2007 to the end of the season Coventry's captain.
Norwich City
Since May 26, 2010 Elliott Ward is at Norwich City under contract. In the Football League Championship 2010/11 the Movers & Shakers with regulars Ward ( / 39 games 1 goal) reached as runner-up promotion to the Premier League.
On October 26, 2012 Ward moved for two months on loan to second division Nottingham Forest.
AFC Bournemouth
On June 18, 2013 Ward signed a one-year contract with the second division promoted AFC Bournemouth.