Kevin Cooper (footballer)
Kevin Cooper ( born February 8, 1975 in Derby) is an English footballer. The winger mostly used on the left side was mostly active in the second English League and is since January 2010 at Neath AFC in the ( sporty little meaningful ) highest Welsh league contract.
Sports career
Cooper was promoted after successful youth training in the professional department of his home club Derby County, remained there but with only five competitive stakes behind expectations. His preliminary sporty luck found the now 22 -year-old midfielder until the spring of 1997 at third division Stockport County, where he joined the nearly two years after his league debut for Derby on May 7, 1995 to the Watford FC (1:2) on loan until the end season 1996/97, twelve championship matches played - while he shot his debut in the winning goal in a 1-0 win against Crewe Alexandra, was followed two more goals later, and rose with the club at the end in the second highest league in England on. In summer, the club agreed on a permanent transfer and 150,000 pounds moved Cooper finally in the Edgeley Park.
Nearly four years spent the winger, who made off with his strengths in the backlash and dribbling a name with " County " in the second-class First Division and denied to March 2001 more 173 Official matches. 15 months before the end of the contract he moved for £ 800,000 to FC Wimbledon, pursued ambitions towards Premier League in contrast to the " strugglers " Stockport County. However, the stay at the " Dons " lasted only a year and after ten hits in the course of the season 2001/ 02 - the best yield in his career - he joined in March 2002 for a million pounds again his former coach from Stockport Dave Jones to who was now in charge of the second division rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers. An offer of the competitor West Bromwich Albion he had just knocked out.
Cooper represented in the " Wolves " in the remaining games of the season 2001/ 02 the injured Irish Mark Kennedy. He could not prevent the club still slipped from a direct promotion place in the play-off zone and there failed in the playoffs at Norwich City, where he had scored in the second leg a spectacular long-range goal to make it 1-0 final score, the However, in view of the previous 1-3 defeat was not enough. A year later, the club took on the Premier League climb, although Cooper despite regular missions during this time was no longer a regular player. In the English elite class Cooper graduated from the start of the 2003/04 season in the 0-4 home defeat to Charlton Athletic he collected only use as a substitute and until the new year at the 2004 second division Leihklubs AFC Sunderland and Norwich City again match practice. In Norwich, he served ten times for the " Canaries " on the side of his former Wolves team-mates Marc Edworthy and in the end won the second division championship. In the summer of 2003, Cooper returned to the freshly relegated to the second division club from Wolverhampton and was now back frequently in the local team again. Nevertheless, he asked in May 2005 to a transfer release and hired a month later a third time with a trained by Dave Jones at club - the Welsh Cardiff City, who was like Wolverhampton represented in the subprime Football League Championship.
Right off the bat Cooper was at the Welsh capital club regulars and played in the season 2005/ 06 a total of 38 compulsory games. However, he could not obtain this status and already in the subsequent round in 2006 /07, his new club loaned him first to the third division and Yeovil Town in February 2007 in the Football League Two to the Walsall FC from. After that, Cooper was back on the transfer list and after a change of club did not materialize, he was demoted to the reserve squad of the " Bluebirds ". Only in October 2007, he again helped with the Tranmere Rovers in a professional team, where he advocated for a month of long -term absentees Steve Davies. On February 1, 2008 Cardiff City and Cooper broke up the mutual agreement and only a week later, a now 33 -year-old found with the fourth division FC Chesterfield a new employer until the end of the season 2007/08. For an extension of the contract occurred in the summer of 2008 but no longer; Instead, it went to Newport County in the Conference South, one of two English divisions of the sixth level. He remained there until October 2009.
In January 2010, Cooper hired in the highest Welsh League at Neath AFC.