Mark Clyde

Mark Graham Clyde (* 27 December 1982 in Limavady ) is a Northern Irish football player. The central defender played between 2004 and 2005 three caps for Northern Ireland, in February 2007 before he retired at the age of only 24 years after a series of injuries and arthritis diagnosis from the professional sports. More than two years later, he launched a comeback on a semi-professional level in the sechstklassigen club Worcester City.

Sports career

Clyde went through the youth academy of Wolverhampton Wanderers and became the 2002/03 season promoted to the senior squad. At the start of the same season he played during a one-month loan four championship games for the fourth division Kidderminster Harriers, before he came to his first stakes in the second league. Here, the young central defender sat because of its mellow acting style of play at times even against the captain and veteran Paul Butler through and completed 17 league games in his first professional season, which was crowned at the end of the promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs - the decision however, took place without Clyde, who suffered from knee problems that necessitated an operation later.

In the Erstligasaison 2003/ 04 Clyde played nine games and at the end he received a new four-year contract. Following relegation in the Football League Championship, he stood in the first 13 games of the season 2004 /05 in the formation of the " Wolves ". These denied the former U-18, U - 20 and U -21 players on 8 September 2004 in a World Cup qualifier against Wales in a 2-2 his first senior international for Northern Ireland, but he had some bad luck as he initially during the October internationals twisted his ankle in February 2005 and returned his knee problems. He missed by a necessary operation, the entire 2005/ 06 and after a brief comeback in the first three games of the 2006/07 season under new manager Mick McCarthy his problems threw him back on a sustainable basis.

On 8 February 2007 Clyde announced after an incoming call with the physiotherapist and doctor of Wolverhampton Wanderers as a result of his persistent injury problems and a diagnosed arthritis, the end of his professional career. In the following years he took a civilian job as a landscape gardener.

In May 2009, Clyde returned to semi -professional basis for football and joined the sixth division side Worcester City.