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Revision as of 17:32, 12 January 2013

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Chris Wood
Wood playing for Brighton & Hove Albion in 2011
Personal information
Full name Christopher Grant Wood[1]
Date of birth (1991-12-07) 7 December 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth Auckland, New Zealand
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[2]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Leicester City
Number 39
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2008 Waikato FC 5 (0)
2008 Hamilton Wanderers 17 (16)
2009–2013 West Bromwich Albion 21 (1)
2010 → Barnsley (loan) 7 (0)
2010–2011 → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) 29 (8)
2011–2012 → Birmingham City (loan) 23 (9)
2012 → Bristol City (loan) 19 (3)
2012 → Millwall (loan) 19 (11)
2013 → Leicester City (loan) 1 (2)
2013– Leicester City 3 (6)
International career‡
2007 New Zealand U17 3 (0)
2012– New Zealand U23 5 (1)
2009– New Zealand 29 (10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:20, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12:29, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Christopher Grant "Chris" Wood (born 7 December 1991) is a New Zealand footballer who plays as a striker for Leicester City. Wood has been capped more than 25 times for the New Zealand national team.

Early life

Born in Auckland, Wood attended Royal Oak Primary and Cambridge East primary then St Paul's Collegiate School and started his youth and senior career with Cambridge playing in the Northern League from the age of 15 years, after which he attracted the attention of Waikato FC Academy prior to playing for the senior ASB Premiership club Waikato FC. He then later transferred to play for Hamilton Wanderers[3] in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Premier before moving to English club West Bromwich Albion. His sister Chelsey Wood is also an accomplished footballer, having represented New Zealand at the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Chile and the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany.[4]

Club career

West Bromwich Albion

Wood was recommended to West Brom's Academy by Roger Wilkinson who coached Wood for two years in New Zealand, setting up a trial for Wood at West Brom.[5]

The young Kiwi found a rich vein of goal scoring form for West Brom's youth academy side, leading to a call up to the reserve team where he was just as prolific. Injuries to West Brom front-liners gave Wood a surprise call up to a trip to Fratton Park to play Premier League side Portsmouth in April 2009. Wood came off the bench to become just the fifth New Zealander to play in the Premiership.[6]

At the end of the 2008–09 season, Wood agreed his first professional contract, signing a two-year deal at Albion, with a further two-year option in the club's favour.[7] This was followed in December 2009 when he signed a new three and a half year deal, with West Brom having the option to extend that for a further year.[8] He scored his first professional goal for West Brom on 15 September 2009, a stunning 25 metre strike in to the top left corner, in a 3–1 win over Doncaster Rovers.[9]

He scored his second senior goal in a 2–0 win over Huddersfield Town less than 7 minutes after coming off the bench in West Brom's FA Cup 3rd round tie on 2 January 2010.[8]

Barnsley

Wood was sent out on a 93-day emergency loan for Barnsley on 24 September 2010.[10] He made seven league appearances for the club without scoring.

Brighton

On 19 November 2010 Wood signed on loan for Brighton & Hove Albion on a loan deal lasting until January 2011.[11] He scored on his debut against Bristol Rovers but saw a penalty saved just days later against Southampton. He added to his scoring tally by scoring in the 3–1 FA Cup win over Portsmouth. He then scored an impressive double against Peterborough.

Birmingham City

The day before the first match of the Football League Championship season, Wood joined Birmingham City on a month's loan.[12] He made his debut the following day, replacing Keith Fahey in the second half of a 2–1 defeat at Derby County.[13] Playing as the lone striker in Birmingham's first match in major European competition for nearly 50 years, the Europa League play-off round first leg against Portuguese club Nacional, Wood hit the frame of the goal twice. The game finished goalless.[14] He scored his first goal for Birmingham in the second leg of the tie against Nacional.[15] On 11 September, Wood scored a hat-trick to lead Birmingham to victory over Millwall,[16] followed by two goals against Nottingham Forest on 2 October to take his league total to seven goals from eight games.[17] His loan was then extended for a second time, until 5 January 2012.[18] His eighth, to clinch a 2–0 defeat of Leicester City, came when Marlon King played a cross-field ball for Wood to run on to and, according to The Independent, "the composure he revealed to go past Kasper Schmeichel and slot the ball home from an angle was impressive".[19] Four days later, Wood scored in the 10th minute of stoppage time to defeat Club Brugge 2–1 in the Europa League group stage.[20] His loan ended on 5 January 2012 after 29 games in all competitions, from which he scored 11 goals.[21]

Bristol City

After returning to the West Bromwich Albion team as an unused substitute in their third round FA Cup tie against Cardiff City,[22] Wood joined Championship club Bristol City on loan until the end of the 2011–12 season.[23]

Millwall

On 17 September 2012, Wood completed a two-month loan deal to championship side Millwall. Wood made his Millwall debut by coming on as a substitute against Cardiff City F.C. for Darius Henderson. Wood scored which proved only to be a consolation against his former club Brighton and Hove Albion on his full debut for the lions.

On 18 November 2012, Wood extended his loan until January 2013, also scoring the winner against Leeds United on the same day. On 24 November 2012, Chris Wood's goal against Blackburn won Sky Sports News Goal of The Day.

Leicester City

West Bromwich Albion recalled Wood from Millwall on 27 December 2012, and announced the following day that it had accepted offers from Millwall and fellow Championship club Leicester City for the permament transfer of Wood. Wood chose to join the latter, and the move was expected to be completed when the January 2013 transfer window opens.[24] Leicester confirmed that the player had agreed personal terms.[25] Wood started and scored twice after only 24 minutes in his first game for Leicester on 1 January 2013 against Huddersfield Town, initially joining on loan in order to be registered in time to play.[26] On 12 January, Chris Wood scored a first half hat trick versus Bristol City at Ashton Gate taking Wood's goal tally to 6 goals in 3 for Leicester City. He was named man of the match by BBC radio Leicester's Alan Young.

International career

Wood represented New Zealand at Under-17 level and was a standout performer for the Kiwis at the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup, a tournament which earned him a trial with English football club West Bromwich Albion, whom he later signed with.

After a string of impressive performances for club, Wood's rise on the international stage continued and was fast-tracked into All Whites' coach Ricki Herbert's squad for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa,[27] and made his debut in a friendly against Tanzania on 3 June 2009 in a warm up match prinenchdhcbchchjd Hdndor to the tournament.[28][29]

In May 2010, he was named in the All Whites World Cup squad, and at 18 was the youngest member of the New Zealand team which travelled to South Africa.[30]

Wood scored his first official international goal on 10 October 2010 in his country's 1–1 draw with Honduras.[31] Wood scored his first international hat-trick against Solomon Islands on 10 June 2012 in the OFC Nations Cup.

International goals and caps

Scores and results list New Zealand's goal tally first.

International career statistics

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Club statistics

As of match played 5 January 2013.
All-time club performance
Club Season Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals

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Waikato FC 2007–08[33] NZFC 5 0 0 0 — — 5 0

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West Bromwich Albion 2008–09[34] Premier League 2 0 0 0 0 0 — 2 0
2009–10[35] Championship 18 1 2 1 3 0 — 23 2
2010–11[36] Premier League 1 0 0 0 1 1 — 2 1
Club total 21 1 2 1 4 1 — 27 3
Barnsley (loan) 2010–11[36] Championship 7 0 0 0 0 0 — 7 0
Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) 2010–11[36] League One 29 8 2 1 0 0 — 31 9
Birmingham City (loan) 2011–12[21] Championship 23 9 — 0 0 6 2 29 11
Bristol City (loan) 2011–12[37] Championship 19 3 — — — 19 3
Millwall (loan) 2012–13[38] Championship 19 11 — — — 19 11
Leicester City (loan) 2012–13[38] Championship 1 2 — — — 1 2
Leicester City 2012–13[38] Championship 1 3 1 1 — — 2 4
Career totals 125 34 5 3 4 1 6 2 140 43

Honours

West Bromwich Albion

Brighton & Hove Albion

National team

  • New Zealand U-20 Men’s Player of the Year: 2008, 2009,2011

See also

References

Statistics

  • Infobox statistics (international): "All Whites: Player Profiles: Chris Wood". New Zealand Football. Retrieved 26 August 2012.

General

  1. ^ "List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
  2. ^ "Chris Wood (Old)". New Zealand Football. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  3. ^ Richens, Matt (13 April 2009). "City teen plays his way into big time". Waikato Times. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  4. ^ Junior Football Ferns named for cup Chelsey Wood NZ Football Profile
  5. ^ Lepkowski, Christopher (18 April 2009). "West Brom's Kiwi star Chris Wood is keeping his feet on the ground". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  6. ^ "West Bromwich Albion Team Profiles Chris Wood". West Bromwich Albion F.C. 11 April 2009.
  7. ^ "Wood pens pro contract". West Bromwich Albion F.C. 29 May 2009.
  8. ^ a b "West Bromwich Albion Player Profile Chris Wood". West Bromwich Albion F.C. Retrieved 10 March 2010. Cite error: The named reference "wbapp" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  9. ^ West Brom 3 – 1 Doncaster From BBC, Posted 15 September 2009.
  10. ^ "Tykes Seal Loan Move For NZ's Wood". FourFourTwo Australia. 24 September 2010. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
  11. ^ "West Brom striker Chris Wood signs for Brighton on loan". BBC Sport. 19 November 2010.
  12. ^ "Blues sign Wood ahead of season opener". Birmingham City F.C. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  13. ^ "Derby 2–1 Birmingham". BBC Sport. 6 August 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
  14. ^ Tattum, Colin (19 August 2011). "Nacional 0, Birmingham City 0". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  15. ^ "Birmingham 3–0 Nacional (agg 3–0)". BBC Sport. 25 August 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
  16. ^ "Wood hat-trick tames Lions". Sky Sports. 11 September 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  17. ^ "Nott'm Forest 1–3 Birmingham". BBC Sport. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
  18. ^ "Blues and Kiwi suit". Birmingham City F.C. 5 October 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  19. ^ Culley, Jon (17 October 2011). "Eriksson refuses to see red as Leicester pay for indiscipline". The Independent. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  20. ^ "Birmingham strike late to beat Club Brugge". UEFA. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  21. ^ a b "Player Profiles: Chris Wood". Birmingham City F.C. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  22. ^ "WBA vs Cardiff City". West Bromwich Albion F.C. 7 January 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  23. ^ "West Brom forward Chris Wood joins Bristol City on loan". BBC Sport. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  24. ^ "Wood set to join Foxes". West Bromwich Albion F.C. 28 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  25. ^ "Terms Agreed For Wood". Leicester City F.C. 28 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  26. ^ "New striker Chris Wood is perfect tonic for Leicester City's promotion push". Leicester Mercury. 2 January 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  27. ^ Kiwis call up teen for South Africa From FIFA, Posted 7 May 2009.
  28. ^ "Kiwis taste defeat in Africa". FIFA. 3 June 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.
  29. ^ "2009 Confederations Cup – New Zealand squad". FIFA.com. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
  30. ^ "All Whites World Cup squad named". Stuff.co.nz. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  31. ^ Woodzee nets as All Whites thrill
  32. ^ http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=33805
  33. ^ "Chris Wood: NZ Football Championship 2007/2008". worldfootball.net. Heimspiel Medien. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  34. ^ "Games played by Chris Wood in 2008/2009". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  35. ^ "Games played by Chris Wood in 2009/2010". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  36. ^ a b c "Games played by Chris Wood in 2010/2011". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  37. ^ "Games played by Chris Wood in 2011/2012". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
  38. ^ a b c "Games played by Chris Wood in 2012/2013". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 2 January 2013.

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