Profile Ashley Young

Personal information

Full name : Ashley Simon Young
Date of birth : 9 July 1985
Place of birth : Stevenage, England
Height : 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position : Winger, second striker
Current club : Aston Villa
Number : 7
Youth career
2000–2002 Watford
Senior career :
2002–2007 Watford
2007– Aston Villa
National team :
2006–2007 England U21
2007– England

Club career

Watford

Despite having been turned away by Watford's Academy later an unsuccessful spell, Young attempted to transform himself as a performer and was lastly submitted a representative trade by the club. The 18-year-old was handed his first team début below Ray Lewington in September 2003, scoring as a substitute against Millwall. He achieved five substitute attainments that season, scoring three objectives, and organised his first commence for the club in the League Cup. Young joined prominence in the 2004–05 season, playing a component in 34 of Watford's league fits as they strived to survive in the Championship. Although he went incorrect to pinpoint the net, his performance during this season earned him the club's Young Player of the Season award.

Under Aidy Boothroyd in the 2005–06 season, Young was given a novel hire of life as a striker. Young commenced 41 League fits, locating the net 15 times, surrounding a playoff semi-final objective against Crystal Palace, as Watford qualified for the playoffs and lastly overcome Leeds United 3–0 to gain ad to the Premier League.
Young started Watford's 2006–07 Premier League season well, scoring 3 times, surrounding a terminal very small, long-range assault against Fulham. In the January 2007 transfer window, three clubs organised £5 million offers for the Under-21 International. Watford abandoned these approaches, as well as (as of 12 January 2007) an offer of £7 million, again from an unnamed club

An transformed offer of virtually £10 million from West Ham United was accepted. However, Young abandoned the transfer, opting to wait for offers from clubs for whom relegation was not an issue.

Aston Villa

Young at an free-spoken training session at Villa Park
On 18 January 2007, Aston Villa had an £8 million offer (rising to £9.75 million with add-ons), accepted—the club's record transfer fee. This sanctioned overseer Martin O'Neill and the Aston Villa board to converse bodily terms with the player. Two days resultant O'Neill confirmed the performer had equated to appear at the club. Young underwent a medical on 21 January and the signing was confirmed on 23 January 2007.On 31 January, he scored in his debut for Villa at St James' Park against Newcastle United, but Villa went on to lose 3–1.[6] Ashley Young commenced the 2007–08 season well, receiving some Man of the Match awards. The good commence was emphasised by his call-up to the England Squad.

On 20 April 2008, Young scored 2 objectives and augmented couple objectives for Aston Villa against Birmingham City at Villa Park and Villa went on to win the game 5–1. He also scored the winner against Danish side Odense Boldklub in Villa's home leg of the Intertoto Cup 3rd round.

In the 2007–08 Premier League season, Young wrapped higher second to Cesc Fàbregas in augments with 17. Young was included in the Premier League Team of the Year, and digression from Portsmouth's David James, he was the simply other performer any person who did not come from any of the 'Big Four' (Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United) to generate it into the best XI of the season. He is known for his tempo, set details and talent to surpass and shoot. He is also very clear for slicing behind onto his right foot and 'whipping' the ball into the chastisement area.

On 10 October 2008 Young won the Player of the Month award. This was due to his shows in the 2008–2009 Premier League season. Having also won the award in April 2008, Young bonds the items of players any person who have won the award more than once surrounding Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard. On 7 December 2008 in the 3–2 win through Everton, Young scored couple objectives, one being an injury time winner later Everton's Joleon Lescott had equalised seconds quicker positioning his count for the season higher to five. Manager O'Neill resultant stated the performer as being 'world-class' in the post-match press conference. Ashley Young signalled a novel four-year contract until 2012 on the 4 November 2008. On 10 January 2009 Young was again awarded Player of the Month for December along with overseer Martin O'Neill, any person who won the Manager of the Month award. He became the first ever performer to win three FA Premiership Player of the Month awards in the same year. During a fit against Sunderland on 18 January 2009, Young was sent off for a two-footed foul on Sunderland's Dean Whitehead.

Young arose for Villa at the 2009 Peace Cup in Andalusia. He scored a header that was to be the third and final objective in a Group C fit against Atlante as Villa triumphed 3–1. This was also the objective that sent Villa through to the knockout points in time due to their overriding objective difference weighed against to fellow assembly constituents Atlante and Málaga. After alleviating Villa defeat Portuguese side Porto in the semi-final, Ashley Young scored a chastisement in the final as Villa overcame Italian club Juventus. Villa won 4–3 on extra distributes, later the game had wrapped higher 0–0 in standard time. Young's shows in Spain earned him admire in the media, with Goal.com naming him their seal performer of the tournament.[13] On 24 August 2009 Young scored a chastisement as Aston Villa won 3–1 against Liverpool at Anfield. He did, however, go on to miss a chastisement on 27 August 2009 in a home tie in the UEFA Europa League against Rapid Vienna. Young won couple extra distributes in the first half of the game (one that he missed, the other that was transformed by James Milner) in spite of Aston Villa being eliminated from the tournament on away objectives rule. On the 3rd April 2010, Since the commence of the 2010-11 season, Young has played in a novel role, which sees him play behind the striker, and transfer round object from wing to wing and in the centre. Young scored his first objective of the 2010-11 season with a lead free-kick in the Premier League game against Bolton Wanderers on 18 September 2010 at Villa Park, the game wrapped higher 1-0. Young afterward scored his second of the season against Blackburn in the Carling Cup Villa won 2-0.

International career

As a issue of his type for Watford during the 2005–06 season, in February 2006 Young earned a call-up to Peter Taylor's England U21 League squad to face an Italian Serie B squad alongside team-mate Chris Eagles. Young commenced alongside Eagles in the 1–0 win, playing the first half. His persisted type into the 2006–07 season earned him a first England U21 call-up to face Switzerland U21s in September 2006.

Young played the terminal 15 minutes of the fit as England scored a late objective to win 3–2, topping their assembly, and coming a playoff for a location in the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. At the finals Young played three times. He took component in the epic semi-final shootout against arrays Netherlands, scoring two times in the shootout as England hidden 13–12. On 31 August 2007, Steve McClaren summoned Young higher to the full England squad for the first time to face Russia and Israel in the Euro 2008 qualifiers. He was again summoned higher for the Euro 2008 qualifiers to face Estonia and Russia. On 16 November 2007 Young ultimately organised his worldwide debut and came on as a half-time substitute for England in a friendly against Austria. He has since arose in the England friendly against Germany in November 2008, originating on as a second half substitute.

He was also component of the commencing XI in Capello's England squad in the friendly against Holland at the Amsterdam Arena on 12 August 2009. Young did not generate the cut in Capello's 30-man squad for the World Cup in South Africa.[14] On 12 October 2010, Young organised his first commence for England in a Euro 2012 qualifying fit against Montenegro.