Kevin Gibbens
Kevin Gibbens (* November 4, 1979 in Southampton ) is an English footballer. Gibbens played from 1998 to 2002 as a professional for Southampton FC and came at this time to nine appearances in the Premier League.
Career
Gibbens was active in the youth area of Southampton FC and, after convincing performances in the reserve team in January 1998, his first professional contract. On the side of players like Matt Le Tissier, Carlton Palmer and David Hirst, the midfielder made his debut on April 25, 1998 in Premier League, as he stood in a 4-2 win against West Ham United in the starting lineup. At the beginning of the 1998/99 season came Gibbens used several times, before it failed due to a groin injury and subsequent surgery for half a year from September, and only in March 1999, could compete for the reserve team again. Together with his team-mate Gary Monk Gibbens was issued in September for a month on loan at second division club Stockport County, for which he was used in four competitive games. Persistent injury problems Gibbens threw back in the subsequent period and he came last time in the winter of 2000 to some Premier League inserts. In the spring of 2002, he was finally released from his contract and joined in March 2002 free transfer to Oxford United in the Third Division, was there until the end of season but never use more and then continued his career in non -League football continued.
First stop there Basingstoke Town was under coach Ernie Howe, for the club, he was a season-long active as a regular in the Isthmian League. He then played for the 2003/04 season in the Southern League in Eastleigh Town, which had to pay a compensation payment of £ 2,000 to Basingstoke for Gibbens. Different views regarding its " lifestyle " already attended in January 2004 for his dismissal at Eastleigh and Gibbens continued his career as a player from the summer of 2004 at FC VT in the Wessex League continued. In VT Gibbens took over as a result the captaincy and went with the club in 2009 in the Southern League Division One. 2010 and 2011 he missed with the club, who renamed in summer 2010 in Sholing FC, both in the play-offs promotion to the Premier Division of the Southern League.