Miles Addison
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Miles Vivien Esifi Addison | ||
| Date of birth | 7 January 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Newham, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender / Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Kilmarnock | ||
| Number | 4 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ?–2006 | Derby County | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2012 | Derby County | 65 | (3) |
| 2011–2012 | → Barnsley (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2012 | → Bournemouth (loan) | 14 | (1) |
| 2012–2015 | Bournemouth | 20 | (0) |
| 2014 | → Rotherham United (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2014 | → Scunthorpe United (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2015 | → Blackpool (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Peterborough United | 3 | (1) |
| 2016– | Kilmarnock | 17 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2009 | England U21 | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:11, 4 March 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 01:02, 23 January 2016 (UTC) |
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Miles Vivien Esifi Addison (born 7 January 1989) is an English footballer who plays for Kilmarnock. He can play as a central defender or central midfielder.
Though born in London, Addison moved to Nottingham at the age of three, where he was spotted by scouts from the Derby County youth system. Addison was handed his first team debut by interim manager Terry Westley, who he had worked closely with in the youth and reserve teams, towards the end of the 2005–06 season, in the 1–1 Championship draw with Hull City on 17 April 2006, where he played in the centreback position alongside side another academy graduate Lewin Nyatanga. He kept his place for the following match, a 2–0 defeat away to Ipswich five days later.
With the appointment of Billy Davies as Derby manager, Addison found himself frozen out of the first team at Derby and didn't appear in the starting eleven again until Davies' successor, Paul Jewell, gave him a surprise start, again at centreback, in a 3–1 defeat away to Blackburn in the penultimate game of the 2007–08 Premier League season.
Derby's poor start to the 2008–09 season saw Addison given a chance to cement a place in the first team and he was given his first start of the campaign in the 1–0 League Cup win at Preston on 26 August 2008. Starting in his preferred position of central midfield for the first time, Addison impressed enough to retain his place for the subsequent match away to Barnsley. This was the start of a run of 15 consecutive appearances in the first team, which was only ended when suspension for reaching five yellow cards ruled him out of the League Cup 4th round tie against Leeds United. Addison formed a formidable midfield partnership with Paul Green during this time as the Rams embarked on a run of only two defeats in 13 matches and moved from the bottom of the table to the fringes of the playoff places. Addison's form earned high praise from Jewell as an example to the club's other academy players and saw him sign a new three-and-a-half year deal with the club on 2 September to keep him at the club until 2011. November saw Addison linked with a £2 million move to Premier League Stoke. However, Jewell denied this, saying "I spoke to Tony (Pulis, Stoke manager) about another matter and he never mentioned it. We are not going to sell Miles Addison. He won't be getting sold. Everybody has their price I guess, but we have worked too hard over the past year and gone through too many tortures to now start selling our best players". Addison was denied his first goal for the club in the controversial East Midlands derby on 2 November 2008 when Stuart Attwell incorrectly ruled two late Addison headers which would have given Derby a 2–1 win, with the match instead finishing 1–1. but eventually got his first professional goal with the second in a 3–0 home win over Sheffield Wednesday on 15 November 2008. On 20 December 2008 he captained the winning side against Watford. Addison said "it was a dream to captain the side who I support". Addison was substituted during Derby's 4–1 win over Blackpool F.C., an injury which was later diagnosed to be a stress fracture of his foot, which ruled him out for the rest of the 2008–09 season. Despite missing the latter part of the campaign Addison's form was such that he won the Sammy Crooks Trophy – Derby County's Young Player of the Season award – for the 2008–09 season.
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