Freddy Eastwood
Eastwood at the Boleyn Ground, 2010
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Freddy Eastwood | ||
| Date of birth | 29 October 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | Epsom, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1997–1999 | Southend United | ||
| 1999–2002 | West Ham United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2003 | West Ham United | 0 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Grays Athletic | 55 | (34) |
| 2004 | → Southend United (loan) | 4 | (4) |
| 2004–2007 | Southend United | 111 | (49) |
| 2007–2008 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 31 | (3) |
| 2008–2012 | Coventry City | 113 | (17) |
| 2012 | → Southend United (loan) | 7 | (2) |
| 2012–2014 | Southend United | 57 | (9) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2007–2011 | Wales | 11 | (4) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:29, 23 May 2014 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 August 2008 |
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Freddy Eastwood (born 29 October 1983) is a professional footballer who is a free agent after being released by Southend United on 23 May 2014. He started his career with West Ham United and has also played for Grays Athletic and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He has played eleven times in his international career for Wales.
Eastwood began his career as a West Ham United Academy player after turning down an offer of a scholarship at Southend where he had been a promising youth player. At West Ham, Eastwood played in the same youth team as Jermain Defoe, Anton Ferdinand and Glen Johnson but was not considered good enough by the then manager Glenn Roeder and was released by the Hammers in May 2003. After being released, he considered quitting football altogether and worked briefly as a car salesman.
Eastwood joined Conference South side Grays Athletic in August 2003 He scored 37 league and cup goals in his first season, winning the Grays' Golden Boot and prompting attention from a number of professional clubs including Northampton Town,Swindon Town and Charlton Athletic as well as Southend United.
Eastwood joined Southend United in October 2004, initially on loan. He made his debut for the club in spectacular style, scoring the opener after 7.7 seconds, an English league record for a debut, and going on to score two more to record his first of three hat-tricks for the club as Southend beat top of the table Swansea City 4–2. Eastwood joined Southend on a permanent basis in November 2004 for an undisclosed fee in a three-year deal from Grays. He finished the 2004–05 season with 24 goals from 42 appearances in all competitions and scored the opening goal in his club's 2–0 win over Lincoln City in the League Two Play-off Final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff in May 2005 that resulted in promotion for Southend United.
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