Victor Moses
Victor Moses ( born December 12, 1990 in Kaduna ) is a Nigerian- English footballer. He is currently in the Premier League at Chelsea under contract but played on loan at Liverpool.
Origin
Moses grew up as the son of a Christian pastor and Missonarin in Kaduna, Nigeria. When it came around the turn of the millennium violent attacks between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, were both his parents, who lived out their faith openly, killed by an attack by Islamist fundamentalists. Thereupon Moses by his uncle, fearing that he might be the victim of an assault, brought to England at the age of eleven years. There he sought to asylum and came under a host family in the south of London. Later he took on British citizenship. In the spring of 2009, his tragic story became known in England more widely, as the club so went to the press.
Club career
Youth Football
Moses was discovered at the age of 13 years at the Stanley Technical High School of Scouts of London's traditional club Crystal Palace and contracted. Previously, he had no club belongs and was active only in football park.
Thanks to its signing of the contract, he moved in a row in the prestigious Whitgift School, in their school team (Crystal Palace junior department ) he was coached by former Palace star Steve Kember and the former Chelsea player Colin Pates. In 2004 he won the National School Cup. Overall, he scored in the season 50 goals this season for his school, alone ten of them. , In his first game for the team In the final game of the National School Cup he scored all five goals for a 5-0 victory against the Healing specialist science college of Grimsby. Moses signed his first professional contract with Palace until 2012.
Professional football
In the season 2007/ 08 he made his debut for the first time in the first team of Palace. In his first season he came to 13 season with three inserts Torerfolgen. The club missed the fifth place just under the direct promotion to the Premier League and failed later in the play-off with two 0-1 defeats to Bristol City.
During the season 2008 /09, its operating times increased continuously until he had a regular place on the left wing at the end of the first round. The team played long against relegation and finished at the end of the 15th table will finish.
In the 2009/10 season the team played in the first round with an improved once again with Moses back to the climb. During the season, however, the präkere financial situation of the club became known, after which it became Moses ' departure. On 31 January 2010, he joined the Premier League club Wigan Athletic for a fee of the equivalent of three million euros.
In August 2012, he moved within the league for Chelsea.
On September 2, 2013 Moses was until end of season on loan at Liverpool.
National
Moses went through so far, the U -16, U -17, U -19 and U -21 teams of England.
With the English U -17 national team, he took in 2007 at the U-17 European Championship in Belgium in part. England made it to the finals, where they lost 1-0 to the Spanish selection. Moses was a three-goal ex aequo with the German Toni Kroos scorer of the tournament.
In the same year he also took part in the U- 17 World Cup in South Korea. England and Moses began with the group victory in the first round strongly into the tournament. Moses contributed three of the eight Preliminary Goals, but was injured in the final group game against Brazil and fell for the rest of the tournament course from. Without Moses England failed then after a 1:4 defeat in the quarter-finals to Germany.
In 2008 he took part with the English U-19 National Team at the U-19 European Championship in the Czech Republic. England difference in third place out in the preliminary round. Moses completed two of the three group games and recorded one assist.
Since 2012 he is on the national team of Nigeria.