Steve Vickers (footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stephen Vickers[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 13 October 1967[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Bishop Auckland,[1] England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1984–1985 |
Spennymoor United | ||
| 1985–1993 | Tranmere Rovers | 311 | (11) |
| 1993–2001 | Middlesbrough | 258 | (8) |
| 2001 | → Crystal Palace (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2001 | → Birmingham City (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2001–2003 | Birmingham City | 14 | (1) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Stephen "Steve" Vickers (born 13 October 1967), is an English former association footballer who played as a
Life and career
Vickers was born in
This deal was then made permanent for £400,000, and Vickers helped Birmingham gain promotion to the Premier League in the 2001–02 season. He scored his only goal for the club that season, against Stockport County.[2][4] Vickers retired from playing at the end of an injury-plagued 2002–03 season, which included a knee operation before the start of the season, a broken rib in his first game back,[5] a badly-gashed ankle following a two-footed challenge from Everton's Wayne Rooney which resulted in Rooney's first senior red card,[6] and a succession of minor problems.[7]
After his retirement from playing, he went into property development in his native north-east of England.[8] In 2010, he was employed as head of youth recruitment for the sports management division of a north-east-based law firm.[9]
Honours
Middlesbrough
References
- ^ a b c "Steve Vickers". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Games played by Steve Vickers in 2001/2002". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
- ^ "BRISTOL ROVERS 1 V TRANMERE ROVERS 2". trscireland.info. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- ^ "Stockport 0–3 Birmingham". BBC Sport. 29 December 2001. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ Hill, Graham (19 January 2003). "Vickers' time is running out". Sunday Mercury. Birmingham. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ Culley, Jon (27 December 2002). "Rooney finds out the hard way for Everton". The Independent. London. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ Clarkson, Ian (8 February 2004). "A blast from the past". Sunday Mercury. Birmingham. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
- ^ Tallentire, Philip (24 August 2005). "Where are they now? 10 years at the Riverside". Evening Gazette. Middlesbrough. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011.
- ^ "Meet The Team". BHP Sport. Archived from the original on 4 August 2010.
- ^ Moore, Glenn (16 April 1997). "Claridge's five-star silver service". The Independent. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
- ^ "Chelsea v Middlesbrough, 29 March 1998 - 11v11 match report". 11v11. AFS Enterprises. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
External links
- Steve Vickers at Soccerbase
