Jonathan Tuffey

Jonathan " Jonny " Tuffey ( born January 20, 1987 in Banbridge ) is a Northern Irish football goalkeeper, who has a contract with Scottish club Inverness Caledonian Thistle since July 2010.

Career

Association

Jonathan Tuffey learned to play football in the youth of Coventry City as a goalkeeper. After he, not a single competitive match completed at the Sky Blues as the club is called in England, he signed end of May 2006 a contract with Scottish club Partick Thistle. While he still had to queue as a replacement behind the long-term first-choice goalkeeper Kenny Arthur in the season 2006/ 07 and received only a few missions, he went after his move to Accrington Stanley on the goalkeeper of the team. In the following season Tuffey completed 33 league games for Partick and finished with the team to sixth place in the First Division. In the season 2008/ 09 he played in all 36 games of the First Division and finished the season on top of the second rank. Also in the 2009/10 season Tuffey was still a regular player in goal for the Thistle.

After he rejected a new contract offer from Partick Thistle in July 2010, the goalkeeper decided shortly afterwards to leave the club and sign a temporary two -year contract with Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

National

Jonathan Tuffey ran through from the U-17 national youth teams all of Northern Ireland. It made ​​his debut for the U -21 selection on 14 November 2006 in the match against Germany. After 13 games for the U -21 Northern Ireland, he made his debut on 19 November 2008 for the Northern Ireland national football team. The game against Hungary was lost with 0:2. Furthermore, he was in the games against Italy on 6 June 2009 (0:3) and on 12 August 2009 against Israel (1:1) between the posts.