David Nugent

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David Nugent
Personal information
Full name	David James Nugent[1]
Date of birth	2 May 1985 (1985-05-02) (age 24)
Place of birth	Huyton, England
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Portsmouth
Number	10
Youth career
2000–2001 2001–2002	Liverpool Bury
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002–2005 2005–2007 2007–	Bury Preston North End Portsmouth	88 (18) 94 (33) 31 0(3)
National team2
2005–2007 2007	England U21 England	14 0(4) 01 0(1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:32, 21 March 2009 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 20:47, 22 June 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

David James Nugent (born 2 May 1985 in Huyton, Merseyside) is an English footballer who currently plays as a striker for Premier League club Portsmouth.

Contents 1 Club career 1.1 Early career 1.2 Preston North End 1.3 Portsmouth 2 International career 2.1 International goals 3 Career statistics 3.1 List of honours 4 Leaked photographs 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Club career

[edit] Early career

Nugent, who started his career as a goalkeeper, was a member of the Liverpool youth academy but left in 2001, aged 15, without being offered a professional contract. It was only once he changed his position that he then became a professional with Bury, joining the club's successful Youth and Centre of Excellence department. After making his debut as a substitute against Port Vale in March 2002 at the age of just 16, Nugent initially struggled to live up to his early potential, but an explosive start to the 2004-05 Football League Two campaign saw several larger clubs take an interest.

[edit] Preston North End

Although a target for rivals Burnley, Nugent opted to join Preston North End rather than Northampton Town from Bury in January 2005 for a fee of £100,000 and proved himself more than worthy at Championship level.

He scored 10 league goals in 32 Championship appearances in 2005-06, as Preston finished fourth, losing to Leeds United in the playoff semi-final, thus failing to gain promotion. Despite transfer speculation, Nugent spent the following season at Preston, scoring 15 goals in 43 appearances, and winning England recognition. Preston finished seventh in 2006-07.

Nugent left Preston during the summer of 2007.

[edit] Portsmouth

After both Sunderland and Portsmouth had bids in the region of £6 million accepted for the player, Nugent was eventually unveiled as a Pompey player at a press conference alongside John Utaka on July 11 2007.^[2] However, rumours followed just weeks later that Derby County were considering a bid for Nugent and that he would be leaving Portsmouth in the same transfer window he arrived in. In a post-match press conference following a Carling Cup game in which Nugent scored his first goal, Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp stated Nugent would be free to leave the club if the right offer came in to help fund a move for more players. However, Nugent stated he wanted to stay at Portsmouth. ^[3]

A possible loan deal to Ipswich fell through in early March 2008 with Jim Magilton, the Ipswich manager, left questioning Nugent's integrity.^[4]

On 17 May 2008, David Nugent was used as a substitute for John Utaka in the 69th minute of the 127th FA Cup final, where he played on the right of midfield. Portsmouth went on to win the FA Cup 1-0 against Cardiff City.

Nugent scored his first league goal for Portsmouth on 18 January 2009, after 18 months at the club, in a 1-1 draw with Tottenham.^[5]

[edit] International career

He made his debut for England U21s against Wales in February 2005. He scored his first goal for the team on his debut, in the 2-2 draw with Moldova on 15 August 2006. Teamed up front again with Arsenal's young Theo Walcott, he scored his second goal for England U21s in the 3-2 win over Switzerland on 6 September 2006 that advanced the team into the play-off round of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He scored his third goal for the U21s against Spain on 6 February 2007 in a 2-2 draw, Stuart Pearce's first game as coach.

On 19 March 2007, following much speculation after Steve McClaren confirmed he had been watching Nugent, David was called into the full England squad to replace the injured Darren Bent of Charlton Athletic.

On 28 March 2007, Nugent made his debut as a late substitute for England in a Euro 2008 qualifying match against Andorra in Barcelona and marked the occasion with a late ninetieth minute goal, tapping in Jermain Defoe's effort on into the back of the net. Nugent, in his post-match press interview, expressed genuine satisfaction over having accomplished a "1 Goal/1 Cap" national team record.^{[citation needed]} Since then, Nugent has failed to secure another outing with the English Senior Team.

He was the first Preston North End player to play for the national team since Tom Finney some 49 years previously and the first England national team footballer from a club playing outside of football's top flight since David James of West Ham in 2003. He was also the first non-Premier League outfield player since Michael Gray of Sunderland in 1999.

Nugent is one of only three players to have exactly one substitute appearance and one goal for England, the others being Paul Goddard and Francis Jeffers.^[6]

In June 2007, he represented the Under-21s in the UEFA Under-21 Championship in the Netherlands.

[edit] International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
01.	28 March 2007	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona, Spain	Andorra	3 – 0	3 – 0	UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] List of honours

Portsmouth F.C.

• FA Cup: 2008

[edit] Leaked photographs

Leaked self-taken photographs of David Nugent posing naked were leaked to the national newspaper The Sun in October 2007. It is understood that Nugent took them to impress a 19 year old shop assistant who spurned his advances and forwarded the photographs to all of her friends.

Dave Nugent has been linked to an astonishing move to Leicester City for 4 million pounds who have just been promoted to the championship

^[7]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• David Nugent career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Portsmouth F.C. – current squad 1 James · 2 Primus · 3 Kaboul · 6 Mullins · 7 Hreiðarsson · 8 Bouba Diop · 9 Crouch · 10 Nugent · 15 Distin · 17 Utaka · 18 Mvuemba · 19 Kranjčar · 20 Cranie · 21 Ashdown · 22 Hughes · 23 Campbell (c) · 27 Kanu · 31 Begović · 33 Basinas · 35 Wilson · 36 Ritchie · 39 Belhadj · — Mokoena · Caretaker manager: Hart

Persondata
NAME	Nugent, David James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nugent, David
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	1985-05-02
PLACE OF BIRTH	Huyton, Knowsley, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH