Profile Gabriel Agbonlahor

Personal information

Full name : Gabriel Imuetinyan Agbonlahor
Date of birth : 13 October 1986
Place of birth : Erdington, Birmingham, England
Height : 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position : Forward
Current club : Aston Villa
Number : 11
Youth career :
Great Barr Falcons
1994–2005 Aston Villa
Senior career :
2005– Aston Villa
2005 → Watford (loan)
2005 → Sheffield Wednesday (loan)
National team :
2006–2009 England U21
2008– England

Club career

Aston Villa 2005–06 season

Born in Erdington, Birmingham, Agbonlahor came through the youth ranks at regional club Aston Villa. As an 18-year-old, he was lent out to Sheffield Wednesday and Watford in 2005 to gain first team experience. Agbonlahor's FA Premier League debut for Villa came on 18 March 2006 at the age of 19, beneath administrator David O'Leary, against Everton at Goodison Park. O'Leary was coerced to delve into the youth academy because of a shortage of senior strikers due to injury, therefore earning Agbonlahor a rare start. He scored afterwards 63 minutes, however Villa went on to lose the suit 4–1.

2006–07 season

In five pre-season sport of the 2006–07 season, Agbonlahor netted four targets in five sport for Aston Villa. After netting a quick double salvo against Walsall (the first a near-post header, the latter a plug range finish) in a 5–0 victory.[9] Agbonlahor also netted in the second suit of Aston Villa's tour against NEC, which turned out to be a consolation target, in a 2–1 victory for NC.
Agbonlahor began the season on the right wing in Martin O'Neill's new-look Villa side, and would be fraction of the team that handled a obtain a point from the first Premiership game at Arsenal's fresh Emirates Stadium. Agbonlahor's first target of the season came at home against Charlton Athletic, in a 2–0 win. On thirty September, Agbonlahor scored a vital equaliser against Premiership heroes Chelsea just ago half-time, heading in Liam Ridgewell's traverse with a glancing header to earn Villa a 1–1 draw.
Agbonlahor also gave cup heroics in 2006, scoring an extra-time injury-time winner to defeat Leicester City 3–2 at the Walkers Stadium. The chasing game, he scored a consolation exertion in Villa's first loss of the season, on 28 October, ten sport in.
Agbonlahor ended his run of scoring against the Big Four, as shortly as he additional Manchester United to a menu of his victims that included Chelsea and Liverpool. Aston Villa were defeated 3–1 in the game at Old Trafford. Agbonlahor thereafter scored profound into injury time in the chasing game, against Watford on twenty January, to end a Villa winless run that stretched rear to 11 November.

Agbonlahor had played every tiny of Aston Villa's campaign in 2006–07, until he was displaced via Patrik Berger, in the 2–0 away fixture against Reading, on ten February 2007. The chasing suit was the first of the season that Agbonlahor did not begin — he instead emerged from the bench, displacing fresh Villa signing Shaun Maloney. Manager Martin O'Neill advised that Agbonlahor, whoever had been playing out of location on the right wing for much of the season, had done exquisitely, and being dipped from the first 11 was in command to relax him, and ease growing crowd pressure.

Following this breach, Agbonlahor went on a scoring spree. He scored from the right-wing against Everton on two April, to gain Villa a valuable point. Following this suit, Agbonlahor gestured a new-four year contract at Aston Villa. The chasing Saturday, in the absence of John Carew, he was shifted rear to his natural location at core forth and again found his dub on the scoresheet.

Agbonlahor prepared it three in a row on Easter Monday, again scoring an equaliser, adjudged to have traversed the queue via attendant judge Dave Richardson.

2007–08 season

Agbonlahor also scored the crucial second target in the suit between Aston Villa and Chelsea on two September, in which Villa won 2–0. Agbonlahor scored the winning target in the 86th tiny of the Birmingham Derby, 60 seconds afterwards storing the ball on the queue from a Liam Ridgewell shot. After 13 sport, Agbonlahor was the clubs lid target scorer, with six Premier League goals. On seven December it was broadcast that Agbonlahor had won the Barclays Premier League Player of the month award and Manager Martin O'Neill had won the Manager of the month award for the same month.

On 12 April 2008, Agbonlahor scored the fourth target against Derby County in a 6–0 victory at Pride Park in the Premier league.[23] In the Birmingham derby on twenty April 2008, he scored the fifth and final target in the 5–1 victory.

2008–09 season

On 15 August 2008, Aston Villa broadcast that Agbonlahor had gestured a fresh four-year sell, knotting him to the club until 2012.
Following his contract extension, on 17 August 2008, Agbonlahor scored a "perfect" hat-trick (scoring targets with his chief, right foot and retired foot) against Manchester City in Villa's opportunity game of the 2008–09 season at Villa Park. The three targets were netted in the space of seven minutes, earning it the second-fastest hat-trick in the history of the Premier League. He was subsequent dubbed man of the suit for this performance, which led to a 4–2 victory.

Early in the season he originated to model a successful attack partnership with team-mate John Carew, this indicated in the Premier League away sport against West Bromwich Albion and Wigan Athletic where both players scored in both sport and gave assists. On three November, Agbonlahor was at the core of a controversy with Newcastle United's Joey Barton as shortly as, during the suit, Barton emerged to brush his fingers on Agbonlahor's face. It subsequent appeared that Barton's assail might have been race-orientated but, afterwards cautious discussion via both Aston Villa and the FA, no further movement was taken. On eight November, it appeared in several national media that the purpose Agbonlahor decided not to follow constitutional movement against Barton was because he "felt sorry" for him. On 15 November, he scored once and played a fraction in the other target, as shortly as Aston Villa defeat Arsenal 2–0 at the Emirates Stadium. He scored a brace against Bolton Wanderers on 13 December. Agbonlahor notched his tenth league target of the season in the 90th tiny in a 2–0 win against Blackburn Rovers on seven February.

However, this was a high point in a dismal run of model in which he scored just 1 target in 12 league games. Some fans originated to obtain frustrated with Agbonlahor and in Villa's home defeat against Spurs there were several sarcastic cheers as he was substituted off via Martin O'Neill. He was subsequently dipped to the bench for Villa's following game away to Liverpool which Villa no where 5–0. After the heavy defeat to Liverpool and regardless his shortage of model Agbonlahor was remembered to the beginning 11 and went on to score a target against Manchester United on 5 April in a 3–2 defeat for Villa. Gabriel Agbonlahor was appointed for the PFA Young Player of the Year with fellow team mate Ashley Young winning the honour.

2009–10 season

Agbonlahor's first target of the 2009–10 season came at home in a 2–0 victory across Fulham on thirty August 2009. The striker brought the ball from the core of the field to attack, left-footed, past Mark Schwarzer from circle twenty yards out.
The striker scored the merely target in the season's opportunity Second City Derby against Birmingham City, netting an frank header past Joe Hart as a effect of a adrift kick removed via Ashley Young. Agbonlahor scored his third target of the season scoring in a 2–0 win against Portsmouth. He scored his fourth and fifth consecutive targets of the season against Cardiff City in the League Cup and Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League. His following target came on 24 October 2009 against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux in the Premier League. Fellow Villa forth Emile Heskey played the ball into the punishment field where Agbonlahor turned a defender and placed a low shot past Wolverhampton goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey. The game done 1–1.

He scored the merely target in the 1–0 win against Manchester United at Old Trafford, heading in a traverse from Ashley Young afterwards 21 mins, supplying Villa's first league win at Old Trafford since 1983. In the first leg of the League Cup semi final at Ewood Park against Blackburn Rovers Agbonlahor was reserved for diving. Agbonlahor scored in the second leg of the game facilitating Villa to obtain to the final where they no where to Manchester United 2–1. He scored double in 2–0 win at Fulham on thirty January 2010. On 21 February, Agbonlahor gave an contribute for Emile Heskey ago adding Villa's final target in a 5–2 victory across Burnley for his 11th league target of the season.
Agbonlahor done the season with thirteen targets in the Premier League, and 16 in all competitions.

2010–11 season

Gabriel Agbonlahor began the sason famously via fetching the merely target against West Ham United on the opportunity day.Despite Villa suffering several releases on and off the field at the conception of the season such as the resignation of administrator Martin O'Neill and a humiliating 6–0 defeat at the hands of Newcastle United, Agbonlahor guarded the club and stated his intent to remain there for the lengthy term.

Agbonlahor gestured a fresh four and a half year contract on 12 November 2010 retaining him at Villa Park until at least 2015. And thereafter in October Aston Villa won 2-0 along with Agbonlahor and Bannan scoring.

International career

Agbonlahor's ancestry qualifies him to play for Scotland or Nigeria at International horizontal, but he chose to play for his country of England.On twenty September 2006, Agbonlahor was pencilled in as a actor in the Nigeria U20 team for the suit against Rwanda. He declined the chance, whilst not governing out playing for the rural in the future. He subsequent committed his future to England.
On 28 September 2006, Agbonlahor received his first call-up to the England U21 squad, and won his first U21 cap as a substitute against Germany U21 on six October.
Agbonlahor was thereafter excluded from the England's U21 Championship squad, via administrator Stuart Pearce, on thirty May 2007, as a effect of absent the England U21 training camp in Spain. David Bentley, also included in the England first team lineup, took his place.
Agbonlahor was subsequent remembered to the side via Pearce, in September 2007, netting his first target for the under-21s, via scoring the second in a 3–0 victory, across Montenegro U21.
On 1 February, Agbonlahor was dubbed in Fabio Capello's 23-man England squad to play Switzerland in February 2008, however a hamstring injury coerced him to retreat from the game.
Agbonlahor was also an unused substitute in England's respective 2–0 and 3–0 friendly victories against the United States and Trinidad & Tobago in May–June 2008.

On 15 November 2008, he was paged upward to Fabio Capello's squad for the upcoming suit against Germany in Berlin, stringing three other Aston Villa players in the squad; Ashley Young, Curtis Davies and Gareth Barry. On 19 November, he was dubbed to begin against Germany. He played for 76 minutes, had a target disallowed and received high compliment from John Terry. Terry certified Agbonlahor in his post-match interview "a nightmare to play against".

On 11 February 2009 he was in the beginning queue upward against Spain, he played for 75 minutes ago being substituted for debutant Carlton Cole. On 31 March 2009 he was paged into the England squad to face Ukraine in a World cup qualifier afterwards Darren Bent limped out of training with an injury. Bent was the third England striker to dip out of the squad through injury, afterwards Emile Heskey and Carlton Cole . On 15 October 2009 he began for England against Belarus and was displaced in the 66th tiny and was displaced via Carlton Cole. Agbonlahor playing in his first competitive global, handled to contribute a goal.