Lee Hurst (footballer)

Jason Lee Hurst ( born September 21, 1970 in Nuneaton ) is a retired English footballer. The midfielder played in the early 1990s 49 Erstligapartien for Coventry City before he had to end his career due to injury early on.

Career

Lee Hurst came in October 1985 during his school days at Coventry City and was awarded in 1987 after graduating from school, a contract as a trainee (German trainee) under the Youth Training Scheme. In May 1989, Hurst signed his first professional contract and was on 29 January 1991 in the FA Cup against FC Southampton, his competitive debut. In the following weeks the young players came as a replacement for Paul Edwards on the left-back position several times in the First Division for use.

Although Coventry with the 86- time English national team Kenny Sansom undertook another left-back in the spring of 1991, Hurst put it in the 1991/92 season due to injury- related absences to ten games of the season. For the following season, the first in the newly formed Premier League, Hurst was preferred by coach Bobby Gould on the left midfield position. There he secured himself with his speed and dangerous edge runs a regular place. In season 35 missions, all of them as part of the starting XI, he scored two goals and was elected several times as "Man of the Match".

In preparing for the season 1993 /94 Hurst suffered a serious knee ligament injury and had to stop to have denied without another competitive match his professional career in the sequence. In 1998 he made a brief comeback in the United States at Charleston Battery, where he played 14 games in the season USISL A-League. Hurst is a member of the Coventry City Former Players Association and attend regular meetings with former and charity games.