Wes Hoolahan
Wes Hoolahan 2013
Wesley " Wes " Hoolahan ( born May 20, 1982 in Dublin) is an Irish football player who is active for Norwich City since 2008.
Clubs
Shelbourne FC
Wes Hoolahan started his playing career in 2000 in his Irish homeland. With the resident in his hometown of Dublin Shelbourne FC he won in 2002, 2003 and 2004, three Irish Masters title in a row. In January 2006, he decided on a change to the Scottish first division club FC Livingston. The start for his new club was very successful, Livingston rather increased at the end of the season as Table from the Scottish Premier League 2005 /06 from. In the following season in the second-class Scottish First Division, the club acted as hoped and missed the direct re-emergence significantly. Wes Hoolahan spent the 2006/07 season but on loan at English third division side FC Blackpool.
Blackpool FC
With his new team, it turned all the more quickly a success. Blackpool achieved a third place in the standings behind Scunthorpe United and Bristol City and sat in the subsequent play-offs against Oldham Athletic and Yeovil Town through and thus achieved promotion to the second-rate Football League Championship. Hoolahan (42 games / 8 goals) distinguished himself as a regular player and thus achieved an obligation on a firm contractual basis. The season in the Football League Championship 2007/ 08 was satisfactory for the upstart by the team with 19th place achieved in the league. Hoolahan (45/ 5) was again a mainstay of the team and participated in the success. After the game time, Hoolahan decided to move to another club Norwich City.
Norwich City
In Norwich Hoolahan had again suffered a setback in his career. The club was relegated at the end of the season as the third from last in the Football League Championship 2008/ 09. Hoolahan (32 games / 2 goals) was injured in March 2009 and so missed the crucial games late in the season. For this, the team under new manager Paul Lambert in the third-tier Football League One tried and failed to promotion back to the Championship. The team led by the strong Wes Hoolahan (37 Spiele/11 goals) convincingly won the third league championship against Leeds United and Millwall FC. The return to the Football League Championship 2010/11 learned the following season, an increase by the runner-up behind Queens Park Rangers. Norwich City reached so that after six years of absence, renewed participation in the English top flight, the Premier League. Wes Hoolahan (41 Spiele/10 goals) was chosen on the end of the season with his teammates Grant Holt in the PFA Team of the Year England's second league.
Irish national
After he had in 2002 already contested three games for the Irish U -21, Wes Hoolahan made his debut on 29 May 2008 in a friendly against Colombia in the Irish national team.