Kenwyne Jones
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| Kenwyne Jones | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Kenwyne Jones | |
| Date of birth | October 5, 1984 (age 22) | |
| Place of birth | Point Fortin, Trinidad and Tobago | |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.9 m) | |
| Position | Forward | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Southampton | |
| Number | 15 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| St. Anthony's College | ||
| Professional clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (goals) |
| 2002 2002-2004 2004- 2004-2005 2005 |
Joe Public W Connection Southampton →Sheffield Wednesday (loan) →Stoke City (loan) |
50 (7) 7 (7) 13 (3) |
| National team** | ||
| 2003- | Trinidad and Tobago | 31 (2) |
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* Professional club appearances and goals |
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Kenwyne Jones (born October 5, 1984) is a Trinidadian football player, who is currently under contract at Southampton of the Football League Championship. He is a utility player, but has recently been playing as a striker.
Jones began his professional career with Joe Public FC in his native Trinidad, and moved to W Connection in 2002 before being purchased by Southampton in July 2004. He debuted with the Trinidad and Tobago national team January 29 2003 in a game against Finland.
Jones went out on loan to Football League One club Sheffield Wednesday during December 2004 and although it finished on January 15 2005, he quickly become a fan favourite with 7 goals in 7 games for the Owls. Following the successful loan spell, Wednesday manager Paul Sturrock failed in his attempts to sign Jones permanently, offering only half of Southampton's original fund to bring him to the South Coast.
Following Southampton's relegation from the Premiership in May 2005 a number of competing forwards were sold and Jones started season 2005-06 as a key member of the squad with the responsibility for scoring the goals to make the Saints contenders for a return to the top flight. During a transitional period for Southampton, managerial change and boardroom unrest took its effect on the players. Having used 41 different players in the 2005-06 season (most were sold to cut costs) it was only towards the end that new manager George Burley began to develop a squad from those that remained.
In the 2006-07 season, Jones has become an established member of the strike-force and has appeared in most games, and is formimg a good relationship with his strike partners, Grzegorz Rasiak and Bradley Wright-Phillips. Unfortunately, this is not producing sufficient goals, and manager George Burley has admitted that he needs to sign a new striker if Southampton are to achieve promotion. [1]
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| Southampton F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Davis | 2 Östlund | 3 Pelé | 4 Sarmiento | 5 Lundekvam | 6 Powell | 7 Skácel | 8 Wright-Phillips | 9 Rasiak | 10 Wright | 11 Svensson | 12 Lička | 14 Idiakez | 15 Jones | 17 Belmadi | 18 Dyer | 19 Makin | 20 Prutton | 21 Baird | 22 Bale | 23 Viáfara | 25 Poke | 26 Miller | 27 Best | 28 Białkowski | 29 Surman | 35 McGoldrick | 36 Gillett | 38 Sparv | 41 Lallana | Manager: Burley |
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Trinidad and Tobago squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup | |
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1 Hislop | 2 Cox | 3 A. John | 4 Andrews | 5 Sancho | 6 Lawrence | 7 Birchall | 8 Gray | 9 Whitley | 10 Latapy | 11 Edwards | 12 Samuel | 13 Glen | 14 S. John | 15 Jones | 16 Wise | 17 Charles | 18 Theobald | 19 Yorke | 20 Scotland | 21 Jack | 22 Ince | 23 Wolfe | Coach: Beenhakker |
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