Chris Herd
Herd pictured in February 2008.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Christopher Herd | ||
| Date of birth | 4 April 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Melbourne, Australia | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Utility player | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Gillingham | ||
| Number | 4 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ECU Joondalup SC | |||
| Bayswater City | |||
| 2005–2010 | Aston Villa | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2015 | Aston Villa | 36 | (1) |
| 2008 | → Port Vale (loan) | 11 | (2) |
| 2008 | → Wycombe Wanderers (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | → Lincoln City (loan) | 20 | (4) |
| 2014 | → Bolton Wanderers (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2015 | → Wigan Athletic (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Chesterfield | 23 | (0) |
| 2016 | Perth Glory | 0 | (0) |
| 2016– | Gillingham | 11 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2009 | Australia U20 | 2 | (0) |
| 2014– | Australia | 3 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 February 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 October 2014 |
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Christopher "Chris" Herd (born 4 April 1989) is an Australia international footballer who plays for EFL League One side Gillingham. Herd can be described as a utility player who can perform competently in a number of positions, including central defence, full back and central midfield. He has represented Australia at under-20 level, and won his first senior cap in September 2014.
A graduate of the Aston Villa Academy, he was loaned from Aston Villa out to Port Vale and Wycombe Wanderers in 2008, before spending the 2009–10 campaign on loan at Lincoln City. He made his Premier League debut in November 2010, and went on to become a regular first team player in the 2011–12 season. He was largely absent from the first team for the next two seasons, and was loaned out to Bolton Wanderers in September 2014, and then Wigan Athletic in January 2015. He signed with Chesterfield in September 2015, before signing a deal to join Australian side Perth Glory in April 2016, however, he decided to terminate the contract for family reasons and signed for Gillingham in October 2016.
Born in Melbourne, Australia and raised in Perth, Western Australia, Herd signed for Aston Villa from Australian club Bayswater City SC in February 2005, along with fellow Australian Shane Lowry, initially in a deal that was made up of a two-year Youth Training Scheme followed by him signing a one-year professional contract with the club. He made 19 appearances and scored twice for Aston Villa Reserves during his YTS campaign, as well as 21 appearances and 1 goal for the Academy. Herd was also part of the squad that won the HKFC Philips Lighting International Soccer Sevens in May 2007, and was rewarded with a two-year contract following the success. He played in a variety of positions in his early career, most notably in central-midfield and on the right-wing, although in the 2007–08 Reserve season, he was heavily deployed at right-back. In July 2008, Herd was awarded with a new two-year deal. On 17 December 2008, he was selected on the bench for Villa's UEFA Cup match against Hamburger SV in Germany.
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