Deon Burton
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Deon Burton | ||
Personal information | ||
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Full name | Deon Burton | |
Date of birth | October 25, 1976 (age 30) | |
Place of birth | Reading, England | |
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |
Position | Striker | |
Club information | ||
Current club | Sheffield Wednesday | |
Professional clubs* | ||
Years | Club | Apps (goals) |
1994-1997 1996-1997 1997-2002 1998 2002 2002 2002-2004 2003 2003 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006- |
Portsmouth Cardiff City (loan) Derby County Barnsley (loan) Stoke City (loan) Portsmouth (loan) Portsmouth Walsall (loan) Swindon Town (loan) Brentford Rotherham United Sheffield Wednesday |
65 (13) 5 (2) 125 (25) 3 (0) 12 (2) 6 (3) 10 (1) 3 (0) 4 (1) 50 (10) 27 (14) 30 (4) |
National team** | ||
1997- | Jamaica | 18 (?) |
* Professional club appearances and goals |
Deon Burton (born 25 October 1976 in Reading, England) is a British-Jamaican football striker who currently plays for Sheffield Wednesday.
Burton began his professional career with Portsmouth, with whom he made his debut in the 1993-94 league season, playing in two games. Burton would play intermittently for Portsmouth over the next three seasons before moving to Derby County for the 1997-98 season. Burton would again struggle to establish a starting role at Derby, playing intermittently there until 2002-03, when he would again return to Portsmouth. Burton stayed shortly at Portsmouth, but, unable to establish a starting role, was loaned to Walsall and Swindon Town, before moving to Brentford for the 2004-05 campaign.
In July 2005 he joined Rotherham United on a free transfer. After an impressive first half of the season, scoring 14 goals in just 27 appearances, Championship strugglers Sheffield Wednesday bought Burton off Rotherham for a fee of £110k (considered a derisory amount by most Rotherham supporters, considering his impressive goal tally). This caused much controversy amongst the Rotherham public, as Burton was alleged to have trained with Sheffield Wednesday before the transfer window opened. He also failed to turn up at the Yorkshire derby between Rotherham and Doncaster Rovers on New Year's Eve. However, his reasons for this were not disclosed. He scored his first goal for the Owls in March 2006 after recovering from a minor injury, his first in nine appearances.
He went on to play a crucial part in Sheffield Wednesday's Championship survival and returned to play against his old club Derby County on the final day of the 2005/06 season, captaining the Wednesday side.
His good form for Wednesday led to a recall to the international stage. Named as a standby for the friendlies against Ghana and England, he was eventually called up as a replacement for Watford striker Marlon King who was sent home for a breach of discipline. Burton made a second-half appearance as substitute in the 6-0 defeat.
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Sheffield Wednesday F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Crossley | 2 Bullen | 3 Gilbert | 4 Lunt | 5 Coughlan | 6 Whelan | 7 Tudgay | 8 O'Brien | 9 MacLean | 10 Burton | 11 Brunt | 12 Adams | 14 Hills | 15 Small | 16 Wood | 17 Sam | 20 Simek | 21 Bougherra | 22 Adamson | 23 McArdle | 25 Talbot | 27 Boden | 28 McClements | 29 O'Donnell | 31 Folly | 32 Spurr | 33 McAllister | 34 Bowman | 35 McMenamin | Manager: Laws |
Jamaica squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup | ||
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1 Barrett | 2 Malcolm | 3 Dawes | 4 Dixon | 5 Goodison | 6 Simpson | 7 Cargill | 8 Gayle | 9 Williams | 10 Boyd | 11 Whitmore | 12 Sewell | 13 Lawrence | 14 Ricketts | 15 Gardner | 16 Earle | 17 Lowe | 18 Burton | 19 Sinclair | 20 Powell | 21 Brown | 22 Hall | Coach: Simões |
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