Jon Nurse
Nurse playing for Barnet in 2013
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Jonathan David Nurse | ||
| Date of birth | 1 March 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Bridgetown, Barbados | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Winger, Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Metropolitan Police (first team coach) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2004 | Sutton United | 28 | (19) |
| 2004–2007 | Stevenage Borough | 86 | (18) |
| 2005 | → Lewes (loan) | 7 | (3) |
| 2006 | → Woking (loan) | 8 | (2) |
| 2007–2012 | Dagenham & Redbridge | 179 | (27) |
| 2012–2015 | Barnet | 55 | (5) |
| 2014 | → Farnborough (loan) | 5 | (1) |
| 2015 | Metropolitan Police | 6 | (2) |
| 2015 | Loxwood | ||
| 2016– | Metropolitan Police | 6 | (1) |
| Total | 375 | (77) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2008–2011 | Barbados | 6 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10:38, 12 March 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22:18, 4 November 2011 (UTC) |
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Jonathan David "Jon" Nurse (born 28 March 1981) is a Barbadian footballer who is currently first-team coach at Metropolitan Police.
Nurse began his career at Sutton United in 2003, spending a season with the club before signing for Stevenage Borough ahead of the 2004–05 campaign. During the season, he was loaned out to Conference South team Lewes, before returning to his parent club and being part of the side that narrowly missed out on promotion to the Football League. He spent two further seasons at Stevenage, winning the FA Trophy during the 2006–07 season. At the start of that season, Nurse was briefly being loaned out to Woking. He eventually moved into the Football League with newly promoted Dagenham & Redbridge in May 2007. He spent five seasons at Dagenham, most notably scoring the winning goal in the League Two play-off final in May 2010 as the club secured promotion to League One. He signed for League Two team Barnet on a free transfer ahead of the 2012–13 campaign. Nurse has also represented his native Barbados at international level, earning six caps.
At a young age, Nurse started to play for Malden Vale U13s, before representing Wallington Wanderers until the age of 17. During this period, he had spent time on trial at both Crystal Palace and Wimbledon, but ultimately no move materialised. Nurse then joined Morden and District League side Sutton Athletic of Sunday league football. Nurse stated that he "went on to score lots of goals and was lucky enough to appear in a number of finals and promotion winning teams", as well as saying it was during this time that he "really learnt how to play football". In 2002, he joined Nuwood of the Surrey South Eastern Combination, and after impressing that season, he subsequently signed for Sutton United. After impressing in the reserve side at the start of the 2003–04 season, scoring freely for Sutton United's second string, he earned a call-up to the first-team in October 2003. His first start for Sutton was a game against Basingstoke Town, and scored his first goal shortly after in a 1–0 away victory at Kettering Town. The goal sparked a run of eight goals in as many games, scoring in eight consecutive matches. He went on to score consistently for the remainder of the season, netting 19 times in 28 games. During the season, he had spent time on trial at Colchester United, who invited him back for a second trial, as well as speaking to Wimbledon about a potential trial.
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