Freddy Eastwood

Frederick "Freddy" Eastwood ( born October 29, 1983 in Basildon ) is a Welsh footballer Romanesque origin. The striker is currently the English second division club Coventry City under contract and is currently plaing for national player of the " Dragons ".

Sports career

Eastwood joined in 1999 by the renowned youth academy of West Ham United. Previously, he had already shown his talent at Southend United, but then preferred the London training center. In the youth team of the " hammer ", he played together with the later internationals Jermain Defoe, Anton Ferdinand and Glen Johnson, but was ultimately by the then manager Glenn Roeder as not good enough found and sorted out. It looked then that Eastwood a career in professional football should be denied and so he went temporarily a civilian job as a car salesman after. He played football from August 2003 when unterklassigen club Grays Athletic; he shot there in the season 2003/ 04 right off the bat 37 Goals in official matches, which he in turn attracted the attention of professional clubs up, including Northampton Town, Swindon Town, Charlton Athletic and his youth club Southend United.

The choice fell on the fourth division last mentioned. He first moved in October 2004 on loan to the " Shrimpers " and gave an impressive debut when he claimed only 7.7 seconds scored his first goal and thus set a record in English professional football in relation to the fastest goal a debutant. With two more goals he made almost single-handedly for the 4-2 win against the then leader Swansea City. From November 2004 Eastwood hired then - equipped with a three-year contract - permanently at Southend United and immediately celebrated his breakthrough. With a total of 24 goals in the season 2004 /05 he was instrumental partly responsible for his team to the play - off final achieved promotion to the third division and this against Lincoln City at the Millennium Stadium to Cardiff 2-0 also victorious designed - the first goal in the game, he scored also itself definitively in the " hero status " he promoted himself after another year, when he scored 23 goals, so that together with Billy Sharp from Scunthorpe United, the top scorer of the Football League One won and the direct walkover in the second-class Football League Championship ensured. For the promotion decision he had taken care of it himself with two goals to draw 2-2 at Swansea City again. In his first second-division match against Stoke City Eastwood shot already his 50th goal for the " Shrimpers ", but after the 1-0 victory to his team did in the 2006/07 season and went hard at the end as soon as possible back into the low ranks from. This again was offset by a climax when Eastwood shot by the only goal scored in the League Cup in a 1-0 upset win against Manchester United.

This was followed in July 2007 with the signing of a four year contract with Wolverhampton Wanderers and a transfer fee of 1.5 million pounds of the supposedly next development step. As mentioned in Southend Eastwood also showed the " Wolves " in the 2007/ 08 season in early form in his debut against Bradford City scored his first goal and also hit in the first two league games three times. Thus he was voted the best second division player of the month of August, but after increasing Torflauten he fell in the following months back in the pecking order behind Andy Keogh, Jay Bothroyd, Kevin Kyle and Sylvan Ebanks- Blake and sat at times not even even on the bench. In March 2008, the failure of a move to Coventry City at the last minute, but by the end of the season put coach Mick McCarthy him a change of clubs close. With just three goals in 35 games - of which, however, only ten games from the start - he was his coach believes a foreign body in the game the Wolves.

With four months late Eastwood went but the second division rivals Coventry City and 1.2 million pounds transfer fee changed hands in the opposite direction. One week after the first game for his new club 9 August 2008 against Norwich City ( 2-0), he met for the first time in a 2-1 win against Barnsley FC for the " Sky Blues ", but remained in the 2008 / 09 behind former Torquoten far back, which was in turn due to the fact that he often held the position in left midfield later in the season.

Welsh national team

Due to the paternal grandfather who was born in Wales Eastwood is eligible to play for the Welsh national team. There he stood for the first time for the upcoming games against New Zealand in May 2006 and a short time later for the European Championship qualifier against the Czech Republic in the squad, but had to cancel his participation due to injury. He played under coach John Toshack his first international match finally on 22 August 2007, scoring the only goal in a 1-0 away win against Bulgaria. and remained in 2008 despite his difficulties in Wolverhampton a fixture in the offensive game of the " Dragons ". Further evidence for this was on 26 March 2008, his two goals in the 2-0 win against Luxembourg.