Matthew Etherington
Matthew Etherington (2009)
Matthew Etherington ( born August 14, 1981 in Truro, Cornwall ) is an English footballer who acts for Stoke City in the left side of midfield and as a left winger in the Premier League.
Sports career
Etherington began in 1996 his career with the club Peterborough United and already came in the season 1996/ 97 on the application in the third-tier Second Division. After two more games in the following season, he achieved a breakthrough in the season 1998/99 at the now fourth-rate club with a total of 29 missions and three gates.
In 1999 he took part in the Junior World Cup in Nigeria for the English U-20 national team and played alongside Stuart Taylor, Ashley Cole, Peter Crouch and Andy Johnson. After the team in three games but did not succeed a single goal, England resigned after the first round of the Table from the tournament.
In January 2000, he joined together with Simon Davies for 700,000 British pounds to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League. He was for a long time not prevail and was loaned in 2001 October to December at Bradford City, where he 13 games - and one goal - came.
After slightly more often came at Tottenham Hotspur in the following season to the course, he still went to the 2002/03 season in the second division to West Ham United. In a barter transaction Frederic Kanoute moved here from West Ham to Tottenham, with the first division was still paying an additional 3.5 million pounds transfer fee. Etherington graduated from the last season in the First Division and the first season in the Football League Championship then called second highest English league. Even in the first season he captured in his new club a regular place and was chosen immediately within the Association as the best player. At the end of the season 2003 /04 he scored a goal during the 2-0 second-leg victory against Ipswich Town and then helped his team to collect the elimination final. There he was defeated, although 0-1 against Crystal Palace, but could make up for the rise of the following year 2005. In the final, he prepared by edge before the door of Bobby Zamora, the West Ham United's ensured return to excellence. Even after the rise Etherington remained mostly a regular in the team. On 8 January 2009 he moved then for about two million pounds at Stoke City a new contract that binds him to the end of the 2011/12 season.
England national team
Before the 2006 World Cup in Germany his club coach Alan Pardew recommended him for the English national team to resolve the presumed weakness there on the left midfield position. The former England coach Sven -Goran Eriksson waived but on Etherington and called instead the left-footed Stewart Downing in the squad.