Mark Little (footballer)

Mark Little ( born August 20, 1988 in Worcester ) is an English footballer. The youngsters mostly used as a right-back of Wolverhampton Wanderers was already at the age of 18 years a fixture in the " Wolves " until he initially lost the connection there and was taken to various lending phase in the summer of 2010 by Peterborough United.

Sports career

The young Mark Little started his footballing career at the Academy of Wolverhampton Wanderers and was part of the youth team that moved into the semi-finals of the FA Youth Cup in 2005. He signed on his 17th birthday, the first - over three years doped - professional contract and developed in the 2005/ 06 first-team regular in the reserve team. In April 2006 he sat for the first time on the bench of the professional team, but did not initially used.

The next development steps followed in the season 2006/07. Against the Chesterfield FC Little graduated on 23 August 2006 in the League Cup his first competitive game for the first team (0-0 ); On 10 September 2006, the new coach Mick McCarthy moved him in a second division match against Leeds United ( 1-0 ) on the position of the left-back a first time. With a total of 26 league operations, he established himself, finally, between November 2006 and early February 2007 as a right-back. In addition, Little was represented at this time permanently in the English U-19 selection after he had already played for the U -17 and U-18 team.

In the 2007 /08 season, especially the commitment of the Irish Kevin Foley made ​​sure that Little the right side of defense remained permanently denied and so the " Wolves " decided in January 2008 to lend its own junior players. The goal was the third division Northampton Town and from initially one months was a loan period of three months. After his return he remained access to Profielf in Wolverhampton blocked, so that the " Cobblers ' between October and November 2008 a second time on loan resorted to Littles services. In the promotion season of 2008/ 09 Little was not represented in any competitive game at the " Wolves ", for which a knee injury was partly responsible, which he had contracted during his second time in Northampton and set him after surgery until late February 2009 out of action. At the beginning of the 2009 /10, Little did not prevail in the first team and so the club loaned him from October 2009 until the turn of the year to the fourth division FC Chesterfield from. In March 2010, followed by the second division strugglers Peterborough United the next loan period and after the 2009/10 season he signed there, despite the descent into third-rate Football League One by a new three-year contract to.