Kieron Dyer
Dyer training with West Ham United in 2010
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Kieron Courtney Dyer | ||
| Date of birth | 29 December 1978 | ||
| Place of birth | Ipswich, England | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1995–1996 | Ipswich Town | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1996–1999 | Ipswich Town | 90 | (9) |
| 1999–2007 | Newcastle United | 190 | (23) |
| 2007–2011 | West Ham United | 30 | (0) |
| 2011 | → Ipswich Town (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2011–2013 | Queens Park Rangers | 5 | (0) |
| 2013 | Middlesbrough | 9 | (2) |
| Total | 328 | (34) | |
| National team | |||
| 1997 | England U20 | 4 | (0) |
| 1997–1999 | England U21 | 11 | (1) |
| 1998 | England B | 3 | (0) |
| 1999–2007 | England | 33 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Kieron Courtney Dyer /ˈdaɪər/ (born 29 December 1978) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Born in Ipswich, he played youth football for his home club Ipswich Town before going on to make nearly 100 league appearances for the club's first team. He was sold to Newcastle United for £6 million, at the time the highest fee paid for an Ipswich player, and made nearly 200 appearances for Newcastle between 1999 and 2007. A move for the same fee to West Ham United followed, but Dyer suffered from various injuries, restricting him to 30 league appearances in four seasons. After a short loan back to Ipswich in March 2011, he signed for newly promoted club Queens Park Rangers ahead of their 2011–12 Premier League season. However, his time at QPR was again blighted by injuries and he made just eight appearances for the club before being released in January 2013, spending the rest of the season at Middlesbrough before retiring.
Dyer represented England on 33 occasions between 1999 and 2007. He was a member of the England squads which reached the quarter-finals at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2004.
Born in Ipswich, Dyer's career began with his hometown team, Ipswich Town, whom he signed for as a 17-year-old trainee in 1996. He broke into the Ipswich first team during his first season at the club, and quickly established a reputation as one of the top youngsters in English football outside of the Premier League. He had spent three years at Portman Road when he requested a transfer in order to further his international prospects following Ipswich's failure to gain promotion to the Premier League through the play-offs in 1999.
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