Ben Wright (footballer, born 1980)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Benjamin Wright | ||
| Date of birth | 1 July 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Münster, West Germany | ||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Nelson Suburbs | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Deeping Rangers | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–1999 | Kettering Town | 11 | (0) |
| 1998–2001 | Bristol City | 2 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | → Woking (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | Viking | 48 | (7) |
| 2003–2007 | IK Start | 68 | (29) |
| 2006 | → Moss FK (loan) | 11 | (2) |
| 2007–2009 | Lincoln City | 67 | (17) |
| 2009–2010 | Macclesfield Town | 39 | (6) |
| 2011 | Richmond Athletic | 16 | (26) |
| 2012– | Nelson Suburbs | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 08:30, 1 May 2010 (UTC). |
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Benjamin "Ben" Wright (born 1 July 1980) is an English footballer who is a player and co-coach of Nelson Suburbs.
Wright spent the first 13 years of his life in Münster, Germany, where his father had a teaching job within the British Army before the family returned to the United Kingdom, settling in Lincolnshire. He began his career in the youth system at Deeping Rangers and was also part of the Deepings School team which won the Lincolnshire Schools County Cup in 1999. He was soon snapped up by local football conference side Kettering Town and began to attract scouts from the football league, appearing twice for Leeds United in the FA Premier Academy Under-19 League before joining Bristol City for £30,000 in March 1999.
He spent the majority of his time at Bristol City in first the youth team and then the reserves. He found first-team opportunities hard to come by, though he did spend a week on trial with Bolton Wanderers and a month on loan with Woking.
In April 2001 Wright linked up with his former manager Benny Lennartsson at Norwegian club Viking. he spent two seasons with Viking and attracted attention when he scored a 90th-minute header against Chelsea in a UEFA Cup First Round, First Leg, match at Stamford Bridge in September 2002. Though Viking lost the game 2–1, it was a vital away goal and put pressure on Chelsea for the away leg which they subsequently lost 4–2.
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