Nicky Shorey
Nicky Shorey in the jersey of Aston Villa (2009)
Nicholas " Nicky " Shorey ( born February 19, 1981 in Romford, London Borough of Havering, England) is an English footballer.
Sports career
Club career
Shorey started his footballing career when he joined the youth section of Leyton Orient in 1998. He came in the seasons 1999/2000 and 2000/ 01 occasionally inserts into the first team and made thereby gain recognition in the FC Reading time active coach Alan Pardew. For a fee of £ 25,000 Shorey finally changed on 10 February 2001 club and quickly developed at FC Reading an integral part of the team.
On 1 August 2006 Shorey extended his contract with Reading FC until June 2009, and following in his first Premier League season 2006/ 07 showed good performance - the supporters of the club selected him in the end in a vote for " Player of the Season " to second place. Thus he recommended for ambitious Premier League clubs, where he was associated primarily with a move to Newcastle United and West Ham United. On August 4, 2007 Steve Coppell as manager of Reading FC announced that Shorey had knocked out a contract extension offer to improved case. Speculation about a premature change denied Shorey but with an official statement that he intended not to leave Reading FC. On August 7, 2008 Shorey signed a three year contract with the Premier League rivals Aston Villa. About the transfer fee retained the clubs concerned silence.
After Shorey had been standing at the beginning of the 2009/10 season in the starting lineup of Aston Villa, he lost this position after the signing of Stephen Warnock. In late November 2009, he then moved on loan to second division Nottingham Forest and graduated from there until the end of January nine league games in which his new team remained unbeaten. Beginning of February 2010 gave Fulham the obligation Shorey 's known. He was on loan from Aston Villa until the end of the season.
On August 9, 2010 Shorey signed a temporary two-year contract with an option for a further year at West Bromwich Albion.
England national team
The good performance Shoreys in the club in the season 2006/ 07 initially led to the fact that the supporters of FC Reading the account of their left-back in the England team demanded by " Shorey for England " intoned regularly. As the season progressed, the to date in the English selection unrecognized Shorey then also found in the national media much wider appeal.
Finally Shorey came on 25 May 2007 in Turf Moor - usually the home ground of FC Burnley - in the English B- selection against Albania for use and was in a 3-1 win in the starting line before he was substituted after 73 minutes. Quite a few experts recommended then that Shorey should ascend to the senior team and Steve McClaren nominated him ultimately on May 26, 2007 for the upcoming friendly against Brazil as well as for the subsequent European Championship qualifying match against Estonia. Then the 1-1 against Brazil at the new Wembley stadium on 1 June 2007, he celebrated his debut as an English A-National player, but despite good reviews from professional page Shorey sat not even during the match against Estonia on the bench.
His second international match Shorey completed on 22 August 2007 again at Wembley in the 1-2 defeat against Germany.
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- Shorey is one of only a few football players who have come on all four English professional league levels used.
- In the internal association voted " best team of FC Reading all time" Shorey won at left-back position with a total of 53.1 %.
- In 2004, the career of Nicky Shorey was at a crossroads, as after a serious infection in the foot in the worst- case amputation threatened. However, after three -month break, he was fully recovered.