Steve Stone (footballer)
Steven Brian Stone ( born August 20, 1971 in Gateshead, England ) is a former English footballer
Nottingham Forest
Steve Stone began his football career at Nottingham Forest. Forest played at this time in the First Division and reached in the 1988/89 season the semi-finals of the FA Cup against Liverpool. Here, the Hillsborough disaster, which is one of the greatest ills of the international football occurred. However, Stone did not begin until the following season, his professional career. In 1991, he reached with his team the final of the FA Cup. 80,000 spectators at Wembley but Nottingham lost with 1-2 against Tottenham Hotspur at Paul Gascoigne and Gary Lineker. Interacting with him were, among others at this time Roy Keane, Des Walker, Teddy Sheringham and Stuart Pearce. 1992/93 he experienced with his team in the first season after the introduction of the Premier League game raven year and rose from the Table.
According to the Direct resurgence Forest reached in the Premier League 1994/95 a third place and qualified for the UEFA Awards 1995 /96 apply. In the UEFA Cup, the team failed after victories over Malmö FF, AJ Auxerre and Lyon in the quarter -finals at Bayern Munich. The highlight of his career saw Steve Stone after the season in which he was appointed to the Executive of the English national team for the European Football Championship in England in 1996. In the season 1996/97 Forest rose again from the second division. After a repeated direct re-emergence, followed in 1998/99 the first direct relegated again. Steve Stone and we decided to change to a club and signed a contract with Aston Villa.
Aston Villa
In his first season 1999/2000 he reached with his new club the final of the FA Cup. Stone, who was only a substitute in the 79th minute, but his second final defeat suffered after 1991. The decisive goal in the 0-1 defeat against Chelsea scored Roberto Di Matteo. Teammates of Stone have included Gareth Southgate and Gareth Barry. For the season 2002/ 03 he moved to three years in Birmingham again the club, this time to Portsmouth.
Portsmouth
His team played this season in the Football League Championship, but managed after a very strong season with 29 wins in 46 games and table number 1 promotion to the Premier League. After 13th place in the Premier League 2003/ 04, he graduated with his team the Premier League 2004 /05 as from 16. After this season, he signed the last contract of his career and moved to Leeds United.
Leeds United
The now 34 -year-old Steve Stone came in his first year in Leeds due to injuries only at the end of the season to a few uses. United reached number 5, missed the play- offs but the climb. In the season 2006/07, Stone was able to achieve his second goal for his team against West Bromwich Albion, but decided to end his career by re- occurring injuries in December 2006.
England national team
His debut in the national team celebrated Steve Stone in October 1995 in a friendly against Norway. His first goal he succeeded in his second international game in a 3-1 home win against Switzerland. For taking place in England European Football Championship 1996 Stone was appointed coach Terry Venables in the squad and came in the first two group games against Switzerland and Scotland respectively used. In the quarterfinals, he got substituted in extra time against Spain and moved to 4-3 on penalties after the semi-finals. There failed his team on penalties to Germany without him was used. After Venables resigned after the European Championships, Steve Stone was no longer appointed by the successor Glenn Hoddle in the national team.