Clyde Wijnhard

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Clyde Wijnhard
Personal information
Date of birth (1973-11-01) 1 November 1973 (age 50)
Place of birth Paramaribo, Suriname
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1995 AFC Ajax 4 (2)
1993–1994 → FC Groningen (loan) 28 (14)
1995–1997 RKC Waalwijk 50 (18)
1997–1998
Willem II
 29 (14)
1998–1999 Leeds United 18 (3)
1999–2002 Huddersfield Town 63 (16)
2002 Preston North End 6 (3)
2002–2003 Oldham Athletic 26 (10)
2003–2004 Beira-Mar 29 (9)
2004–2006 Darlington 39 (15)
2005–2006 → Macclesfield Town (loan) 12 (6)
2006 Macclesfield Town 8 (2)
2006 Brentford 9 (0)
Total 321 (112)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Clyde Wijnhard (born 1 November 1973) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Born in

Willem II before joining Premier League club Leeds United for a £1.5 million fee in 1998. He joined Huddersfield Town in 1999 but suffered a near-fatal car accident the following year. He joined Preston North End and later had spells with Oldham Athletic, Beira-Mar, Darlington, Macclesfield Town and Brentford
before retiring in 2006.

Playing career

Early career

Born in

Willem II on a two-year contract in September 1997.[4] He scored 14 goals in 29 matches during the 1997–98 season.[2]

Leeds United

Wijnhard joined

George Graham, and he scored 4 goals in 25 matches across all competitions during the 1998–99 season.[4][6]

Huddersfield Town

Wijnhard signed for First Division club Huddersfield Town in summer 1999 for a fee of £750,000.[7]

In September 2000, Wijnhard suffered a near-fatal car accident which left him unable to play for the next 18 months.[3]

Preston North End and Oldham Athletic

In March 2002, Wijnhard joined First Division side Preston North End on a free transfer.[8] He made his debut for the club on 23 March 2002, starting in their 2–0 win away to Stockport County.[8]

In summer 2002, he turned down an offer of a three-year deal at Preston.[9] He subsequently had trials at Barnsley and Galatasaray[10][11] before joining Oldham Athletic on a non-contract basis on 29 August 2002.[12] He signed a contract until the end of the season the following week.[13]

Later career

Wijnhard spent the 2003–04 season in Portugal with Beira-Mar on a week-to-week contract but eventually left the club due to a lack of game time, and returned to England.[4][14]

In October 2004, Wijnhard joined Darlington on a match-by-match contract.[15] He scored on his debut for the club on 2 October 2004 as they beat Southend United 4–0 on 2 October.[16] The following month, he signed a contract until summer 2006.[17] On 7 October 2005, the club announced that they had terminated his contract,[18] but his registration was retained and he joined Macclesfield Town on loan on 14 October.[19] He joined the club on a permanent deal in January 2006.[20] He was released by Macclesfield at the end of the season.[21]

After trial spells at Chester City and NAC Breda,[22][23][24] he joined Brentford on trial in September 2006,[25] and signed a three-month contract with the club later that month.[26] He was released by the club in December 2006, shortly prior to the end of his contract.[27]

Wijnhard appeared for Bramham FC of the Harrogate and District Association Football League, who he joined in the summer of 2006.[

Yorkshire Old Boys League (now Yorkshire Amateur League).[28] He has also appeared again for Leeds United albeit in Masters Football alongside Darren Huckerby
.

After football

He helps young Dutch men's footballers gain trials at English clubs.[29]

References

  1. ^ "Clyde Wijnhard". premierleague.com. Premier League. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Clyde Wijnhard". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Misset, Robèrt (11 October 2004). "Wijnhard zoekt het oergevoel in League Two". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b c "Willem II trekt Wijnhard en Van Wanrooij aan". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). 10 June 1997. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  5. ^ a b Parkes, Ian (25 August 1998). "Football: Clyde looks to Dutch master". The Independent. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Games played by Clyde Wijnhard in 1998/1999". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Club-by-club guide to the Premiership". The Guardian. 7 August 1999. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  8. ^ a b Hughes, Matt (25 March 2002). "Clyde's whines hard to reconcile". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Wijnhard rejects Preston deal". BBC Sport. 16 July 2002. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  10. ^ "Barnsley give Wijnhard trial". BBC Sport. 30 July 2002. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Wijnhard at Galatasary". BBC Sport. 9 August 2002. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  12. ^ "Latics near Wijnhard signing". BBC Sport. 29 August 2002. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  13. ^ "Wijnhard signs season-long deal". Sky Sports. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  14. ^ Chronicle, Evening (20 February 2005). "Why Clyde gave up the good life". ChronicleLive. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  15. ^ "Wijnhard joins Quakers". BBC Sport. 1 October 2004. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  16. ^ "Wijnhard scoort tijdens winnend debuut". Voetbal International (in Dutch). 3 October 2004. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  17. ^ "Wijnhard signs Quakers contract". BBC Sport. 12 November 2004. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  18. ^ "Quakers terminate Wijnhard deal". BBC Sport. 7 October 2005. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  19. ^ "Macc sign Wijnhard in loan deal". BBC Sport. 14 October 2005. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  20. ^ "Macclesfield seal Wijnhard deal". BBC Sport. 3 January 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  21. ^ "Macclesfield release five players". BBC Sport. 9 May 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  22. ^ "Chester ponder move for Wijnhard". BBC Sport. 5 September 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  23. ^ Powell, Dave (4 July 2019). "The past Chester pre-season trialists you may have forgotten about". CheshireLive. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  24. ^ "Clyde on trial at NAC". Sky Sports. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  25. ^ "Brentford give trial to Wijnhard". BBC Sport. 18 September 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  26. ^ "Wijnhard and O'Connor boost Bees". BBC Sport. 25 September 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  27. ^ "Brentford striker Wijnhard leaves". BBC Sport. 23 December 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  28. ^ "Leeds United: My Whites playing days – Wijnhard INTERVIEW". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  29. ^ "Whatever Happened To Clyde Wijnhard?". Whatever Happened To... Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2011.

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