Michael Carrick

Michael Carrick ( 2006)

Michael Carrick (born 28 July 1981 in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear ) is an English football player and active for the Premier League club Manchester United since the 2006/07 season. The central, most defensive oriented midfielders and current England international completed a use at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. His strengths are in above-average passing ability, good ball control in the midfield and in the above average strong positional play.

Sports career

Carrick attended the Wallsend 's Burnside Community High School, where he made in 1997 with the GCSE ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) graduated from high school. He was courted by several football clubs and then opted for the club West Ham United. From a young age he performed on a television program, in which life was portrayed by young football players. He won with a youth team in 1999 the FA Youth Cup, defeating Coventry City doing with the record - with respect to this contest - of 9:0. In August 1999 he made ​​his debut for the first team and was a substitute in the 3-0 win against Bradford City for Rio Ferdinand. Interrupted by only two each month lending periods at Swindon Town and Birmingham City, he played for many years for West Ham United and remained even after the descent in 2003 yet another year at West Ham, while other high-profile players such as Joe Cole, Jermain Defoe and Frédéric Kanoute immediately left the club.

Tottenham Hotspur ( 2004-06 )

He moved in 2004 for a transfer fee of € 2.75 million pounds to Tottenham Hotspurs and grew to become one of the more important within a part of the team 's most talented English players and. In the 2005/06 season in the home game against Sunderland with the late winning goal he scored his first goal and he was 2-1 against Manchester City followed by a second hit.

Manchester United ( since 2006)

On 31 July 2006 Carrick hired at Manchester United. In the " negotiation Poker" a 10 - million -pound offer was initially rejected, and only after significant rework of "United" it came to an agreement - the transfer fee now consisted of an upfront payment of 14 million pounds plus performance-related bonus payments of other 4.6 million pounds.

On August 23, 2006, he came in a 3-0 away win in the Premier League by Substitutes his debut for United and just three days later he was in the starting lineup for the first time. On the side of Paul Scholes, he was henceforth set in central midfield and was represented only briefly at a violation of the Irishman John O'Shea or the Scot Darren Fletcher. He immediately won the English championship and another highlight was the 7-1 win in the Champions League against AS Roma, which also reach Carrick shot two goals - in the semifinals, the team then failed at AC Milan. With the obligations of Owen Hargreaves and Anderson received Carrick more competition at his position and also an elbow fracture in October 2007 against AS Roma left the sporting prospects at first seem worse. After his comeback in November 2007, it remained a " conqueror ball " in the middle of a central character, won for the second time in a row the English championship and was on 21 May 2008 against Chelsea in the Champions League final. He played the entire 120 minutes and turned in the ultimately victorious penalty shoot- second penalty for United. Four days earlier, he had signed a new five-year contract in Manchester. Even with the completion of the " Premier League title hat-trick " in 2009 Carrick played a central role and made the 2-1 winning goal in the 86th minute at Wigan Athletic that his team an almost two games before the end of the season had secure 6-point lead over the toughest rivals Liverpool. The title defense in the Champions League failed because United was defeated 0-2 on May 27, 2009 after disappointing final performance against Barcelona. On winning the League Cup in the same year he had little share because he had completed only in the semi-final against Derby County the last quarter of an hour.

In the 2009/10 season, he contributed significantly more at the new League Cup win of the club and was standing in the Finalelf, who won 2-1 against Aston Villa. Other title success came from and Carrick did increasingly difficult to defend his midfield place against emerging competition. Due to a number of injury problems in defense Carrick also helped for the first time in his pro career in some games as a central defender from. Moreover, it was the yellow- red card in the 2-1 win at AC Milan in the Champions League Carrick 's first suspension after more than ten years as a professional.

England national team

Four years and three days after his first brief appearance on 25 May 2001 for the England senior team against Mexico came Carrick during an international match tour of the United States against the host nation for the first time in the starting lineup of the "Three Lions " for the course. Carrick was at this time, but only one of many alternatives in the central- defensive midfield English, to which the former coach Sven -Goran Eriksson also, for example, Scott Parker and Ledley King counted. In the function of the complement player Eriksson Carrick convened in May 2006, finally in the England squad and in the final tournament himself denied this in the second round against Ecuador behind the two central midfielders Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard his only game.

Although Carrick established in the period following the English giants Manchester United in stem formation, its use in the English national team remained rare even under Eriksson's successor Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello. Midfielders like Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Joe Cole and Gareth Barry were mostly preferred to him and between games against Germany (1:2 2:1 in August 2007 and now under Capello in November 2008 ) were just 15 months. In 2009, he came only to two internationals from the start - a friendly against Spain ( 0-2) and a meaningless for England World Cup qualifier against Ukraine (0-1) - and in May 2010 he was appointed Capello 's provisional 30 -man squad for the upcoming world Cup in South Africa.

Achievements

  • UEFA Champions League: 2008
  • Club World Cup: 2008
  • English Champion: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013
  • English League Cup: 2010
  • FA Youth Cup: 1999
  • FA Community Shield: 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
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