Mikele Leigertwood
Leigertwood playing for Reading in 2011
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mikele Benjamin Leigertwood | ||
| Date of birth | 12 November 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Enfield, London, England | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Wimbledon | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2004 | Wimbledon | 56 | (2) |
| 2002 | → Leyton Orient (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2004–2006 | Crystal Palace | 63 | (1) |
| 2006–2007 | Sheffield United | 21 | (0) |
| 2007–2011 | Queens Park Rangers | 131 | (12) |
| 2010–2011 | → Reading (loan) | 22 | (1) |
| 2011–2014 | Reading | 75 | (6) |
| Total | 376 | (22) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2008–2014 | Antigua and Barbuda | 11 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:01, 6 May 2014 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 01:02, 13 June 2012 (UTC) |
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Mikele Benjamin Leigertwood (born 12 November 1982) is an English-born Antiguan retired footballer who last played for Reading. He also played for the Antigua and Barbuda national football team.
Leigertwood was born in Enfield. He began his career with Wimbledon, but he made his professional debut while on loan to Leyton Orient in November 2001. He got his first game at Wimbledon at the end of the 2001–2002 season, in a 1–0 defeat against Barnsley. While at Wimbledon, he played 65 games, scoring just three times in games against Norwich, Watford and Portsmouth in the League Cup.
He transferred to Crystal Palace for £155,000 in January 2004, becoming the first permanent signing of Iain Dowie, and played in 10 league games for the remainder of the 2003–2004 season, helping to secure Palace's promotion to the FA Premier League. In the 2004–2005 season, he made 23 appearances for Palace, including his first goal for the club against Tottenham Hotspur.
After the relegation of his club Crystal Palace, he joined Sheffield United on a three-year deal after the Blades paid a £600,000 compensation fee. Although Leigertwood was out of contract, a fee was due as he was under 24 years of age at the time. Leigertwood joined Queens Park Rangers for a fee of £900,000 in August 2007.
During his time at Queens Park Rangers, he made 141 appearances and 12 goals for Queens Park Rangers. Leigertwood went on loan to Reading in November 2010 after being out of favour with Neil Warnock. After a series of consistently good performances, this was extended to the end of the 2011 season, including the playoffs should it be needed. He scored his first goal for the club against Stevenage in the FA Cup on 29 January 2011. A week later Leigertwood added another goal to his tally with a 21st minute deflected strike against Cardiff City in a 2–2 draw.
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