Adam Miller (footballer, born 1982)

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Adam Miller
A man wearing a black t-shirt and blue shorts standing on a grass pitch, with a spherical football ball next to one of his feet.
Miller with Gillingham in 2009
Personal information
Full name Adam Edward Miller[1]
Date of birth (1982-02-19) 19 February 1982 (age 42)[1]
Place of birth Hemel Hempstead, England
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2000 Ipswich Town 0 (0)
2000–2002 Canvey Island 59 (9)
2002–2003 Grays Athletic 26 (6)
2003 Gravesend & Northfleet 4 (1)
2003–2004 Aldershot Town 38 (9)
2004–2006 Queens Park Rangers 15 (0)
2005 → Peterborough United (loan) 2 (0)
2006–2008 Stevenage Borough 59 (11)
2007–2008 → Gillingham (loan) 7 (2)
2008–2010 Gillingham 82 (11)
2009–2010 → Dagenham & Redbridge (loan) 8 (0)
2010–2012 Cambridge United 5 (0)
Total 305 (49)
International career
Northern Ireland U18
2004
England National Game XI
 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Adam Edward Miller (born 19 February 1982) is a retired

England National Game XI and played at Wembley Stadium in the final of the FA Trophy
.

Early life

Miller was born in Hemel Hempstead, but grew up in the Monkwick district of Colchester, where his family still lived as of 2004. He attended The Stanway School in the town.[2][3] At the age of 16 he joined Ipswich Town as a trainee.[4][5] At around the same time he was called up to represent Northern Ireland at under-18 level, qualifying by virtue of the fact that his maternal grandfather was born in the country.[6]

Career

Canvey Island

Miller proved unable to break into Ipswich's

Isthmian League Premier Division, playing 48 times in total.[11]

Grays Athletic and Aldershot Town

In August 2002, after two final games for Canvey,

England National Game XI in February 2004, although it was to be his only cap for the semi-professional national team.[19] In November 2004, Miller played for Aldershot against the reserve team of Queens Park Rangers, the team he had supported since childhood.[20][21]

Queens Park Rangers

Rangers manager

Football League debut on 4 December 2004 in a 2–1 defeat to Nottingham Forest, and played in more than half of the team's remaining league matches that season.[23] By late September 2005, he had made just one league appearances since the start of the season,[24] and was sent to Peterborough United on what was originally intended to be a three-month loan.[25] A month later he was recalled to Loftus Road,[26] but he was not to feature again in the Rangers team.[24]

Stevenage

In January 2006, he had a brief trial with

Conference National, initially on an 18-month contract.[27]

Miller featured regularly for Stevenage,[28] and was in the starting line-up for the 2007 FA Trophy final, the first competitive match at the new Wembley Stadium, in which Borough came back from two goals down to beat Kidderminster Harriers and win the Trophy.[29]

Gillingham

Stevenage manager,

2007–08 season, Miller was identified as a key player and singled out for praise by Stimson, who said "If eight players play like Adam Miller we won't be in this position but if we've only got one or two we will be".[34]

The following season, he remained a regular selection in Stimson's team, acting as captain in Barry Fuller's absence,[citation needed] but injury kept him out of the team at the end of the season as Gillingham clinched a place in, and ultimately promotion through, the play-offs.

In the

loan.[35] Miller's debut for Dagenham came on 14 November in a 1–0 away win against Accrington Stanley.[36] He returned to Gillingham at the end of his loan spell, but Stimson announced that the club was considering paying off the remainder of the player's contract.[37] Despite this, Miller played regularly during the remainder of the 2009–10 season.[38]

Cambridge United and retirement

At the end of the season he left Gillingham and joined Cambridge United.[39] Miller played several times at the start of the 2010–11 campaign, but was seriously injured in early September against Eastbourne Borough.[40] Two years later, he announced his retirement from football as a result of the injury.[41] He subsequently set up a company leasing luxury cars to other footballers.[42]

Honours

References

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  2. ^ "Soccer: Miller's living the dream". Chelmsford Weekly News. 10 December 2004.
  3. ^ "Soccer: Miller eyes a cup shock". Chelmsford Weekly News. 13 November 2003.
  4. ^ a b c "Ryman clubs swap players". Non League Daily. 26 August 2002. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  5. ^ "Adam Miller". Pride of Anglia. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  6. ^ "Adam Miller's delight at grabbing Gillingham goal". Belfast Telegraph. 29 March 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
  7. ^ "Soccer: Late mistake costs Blues' reserves". Braintree and Witham Times. 31 August 2000.
  8. ^ "Soccer: Mixed views of Gulls-Blues clash". Basildon Recorder. 3 August 2001.
  9. ^ "Canvey Statistics at a Glance (2000–01)". Canvey Island F.C. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  10. ^ "FA Trophy Final 2000–01". Soccerbase. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  11. ^ "Canvey Statistics at a Glance (2001–02)". Canvey Island F.C. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  12. ^ "Canvey Statistics at a Glance (2002–03)". Canvey Island F.C. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  13. ^ "Player Details: Season 2002–2003: Adam Miller". soccerfactsuk. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
  14. ^ "News & features archive – May 2003". Grays Athletic F.C. Archived from the original on 7 July 2003. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
  15. ^ Williams, Mike; Tony Williams (2007). Non-League Club Directory 2007. Tony Williams Publications Ltd. p. 144. 1-8698-3355-4.
  16. ^ "Games played by Adam Miller in 2003/2004". Soccerbase. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
  17. ^ "Shots make double swoop". BBC. 20 October 2003. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  18. ^ "News from Deva Stadium 2004". Chester City F.C. 30 May 2004. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  19. ^ Williams. Non-League Club Directory 2007. p. 859.
  20. ^ "QPR sign Shots midfielder Miller". BBC. 16 November 2004. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  21. ^ a b "Miller bids fond farewell to Shots". Farnborough News and Mail. 16 November 2004. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
  22. ^ "It's Miller time!". Aldershot News and Mail. 27 January 2005. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
  23. ^ "Games played by Adam Miller in 2004/2005". Soccerbase. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
  24. ^ a b "Games played by Adam Miller in 2005/2006". Soccerbase. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
  25. ^ "Posh beat Millers to sign Miller". BBC. 22 September 2005. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  26. ^ "Peterborough extend Hand's loan". BBC. 25 October 2005. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  27. ^ "Stevenage swoop for QPR's Miller". BBC. 24 January 2006. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  28. ^ "Adam Miller – All time playing career". Soccerbase. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
  29. ^ Ian Hughes (12 May 2008). "Kidderminster 2–3 Stevenage". BBC. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  30. ^ "Gills unveil Stimson as new boss". BBC. 1 November 2007. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  31. ^ "Gillingham capture Stevenage pair". BBC. 23 November 2007. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  32. ^ "Games played by Adam Miller in 2007/2008". Soccerbase. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
  33. ^ "Miller & Nutter make Gills switch". BBC. 4 January 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  34. ^ "Time to do the basics – Stimson". BBC. 9 March 2008. Archived from the original on 13 March 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
  35. ^ "Miller joins the Daggers". Gillingham F.C. 10 November 2009. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
  36. ^ "Accrington Stanley 0 – 1 Dag & Red". BBC. 14 November 2009. Archived from the original on 17 November 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2009.
  37. ^ "Gillingham look to pay off Adam Miller". BBC. 14 January 2010. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
  38. ^ "Games played by Adam Miller in 2009/2010". Retrieved 23 May 2010.
  39. ^ "Midfielder Adam Miller makes Cambridge move". BBC. 23 June 2010. Archived from the original on 26 June 2010. Retrieved 23 June 2010.
  40. ^ "Cambridge United's Miller positive following surgery". BBC. 19 October 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
  41. ^ "Cambridge's Adam Miller retires after long fitness battle". BBC. 11 September 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  42. ^ Hammond, Stuart (23 September 2012). "Hugh'd do very well to follow Mac's lead". The Non-League Paper.

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