Profile Gareth Barry

Personal information

Full name : Gareth Barry
Date of birth : 23 February 1981
Place of birth : Hastings, England
Height : 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position : Midfielder
Current club : Manchester City
Number : 18
Youth career
1996–1997 Brighton & Hove Albion
Senior career
1997–2009 Aston Villa
2009– Manchester City
National team
1998–2002 England U21
2007 England B
2000– England

Club career

Aston Villa

Barry connected Aston Villa from Brighton and Hove Albion as a trainee in 1997 along with Michael Standing. The transfer was controversial as the Brighton board appealed £2.5 million for the couple players; the Football Association's transfer tribunal panel came higher with a trade which would have supposed Brighton generate £2.4 million in the function of Barry and Standing taking in worldwide attainments for England, as well as sell-on clauses.[citation needed] He played his first fit for Villa on 2 May 1998 against Sheffield Wednesday. Initially, he played as a inside defender, on the left-hand side of a behind three alongside Gareth Southgate and Ugo Ehiogu. Barry became a highly versatile performer and captain first as a centre-back, afterward a left-back. He afterward transferred to left-midfield, in the past positioning himself in the quintessence of midfield.
In April 2005, Barry intervened in a controversial happening in a fit against Newcastle United after couple Newcastle United players, Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer, brawled with one another during the game.

In November 2007, it was reported that Aston Villa were set to award Barry a testimonial, at the age of just 26, to understand his 10 years at the club. On 5 April 2008, Barry alleviated to contravene a run of evil-minded type, scoring in a 4–0 victory through Bolton Wanderers. He scored couple objectives (his first couple from free-spoken play that season) and he was also credited with couple assists.

As of April 2008, Barry, drawing seal 400 total attainments for Aston Villa, was the longest serving performer in the team.[5] During the league game against Bolton Wanderers on 28 October 2007, Barry became the youngest performer to arise in 300 Premier League sporting activities (aged 26 years 247 days), deposing earlier record-holder Frank Lampard.

In May 2008, Liverpool organised a series of bids to pay for Barry, all of which were abandoned by Aston Villa. Barry publicly criticised his overseer, Martin O'Neill, finding fault him of taking in no offer to save him at the club, and further stating a longing to appear at Liverpool in lead to compete in the Champions League. O'Neill turned down this contend and Barry was officially disciplined for compensating an unauthorised interview. A further bid from Liverpool of round object £15 million was abandoned as it was immobile condensed of Villa's £18 million asking price. Steve Finnan had afterward been submitted in a part-exchange in the trade but the compensation Villa trusted in this covering was construed by BBC Sport to be £17 million with Steve Finnan.

Barry was afterward stripped of the Villa captaincy, fined 2 weeks earnings and excluded from training with the Villa squad.
Barry stayed an Aston Villa performer, commencing in a UEFA Cup tie against FH Hafnarfjordur, in which he scored in a 4–1 win. The objective against Hafnarfjordur was Barry's first European objective since he scored a chastisement in the Intertoto Cup against Celta Vigo in 2000. On 18 September 2008, Barry organised his 400th attainment in a Villa shirt in the UEFA Cup away to Litex Lovech: Barry scored a chastisement as Villa won the fit 3–1. He scored again for Villa as they overcome Ajax 2–1 in their first UEFA Cup assembly fit on 23 October 2008. Due to the transfer saga, O'Neill had extracted the captaincy away from Barry and handed it to centre-back Martin Laursen for the 2008–09 season. Following Laursen's injury, the captaincy was returned to Barry in January 2009. In total, Gareth Barry organised 441 attainments for Aston Villa, scoring 52 objectives in the process.

Manchester City

On 2 June 2009, Barry signalled a five-year contract with Manchester City for a compensation of £12 million and becomes threadbare the diagram 18 shirt. Many Aston Villa fans publicly criticised Barry for this transfer account for his alleged longing to play in the UEFA Champions League. However, Barry replied to this positively and wrote a letter to the Birmingham Mail in which he thanked the Villa fans for their encourage where he was there, contending that his transfer to City was for a "new challenge." He scored his first objective for the club, below high expectations, in a 2–1 pre-season victory through Celtic. Barry scored his first Premier League objective for City against Manchester United on 20 September, making straight the scores at 1–1, but City went on to lose the fit 4–3. Three days resultant he scored a header in a League Cup tie with Fulham to generate the scores 1–1; City went on to win in extra time. On 16 February he scored a late equaliser in a draw against Stoke City.

International career


Barry is an ex-England under-18 captain. He organised his England under-21 debut against the Czech Republic in 1998. He organised 27 commences for the Under-21 side, a record since surpassed by fellow Aston Villa players, earlier on-loan goalkeeper Scott Carson and associate James Milner.

First picked for the senior England side by Kevin Keegan, along with David Beckham, he is the simply other England worldwide to date to have played below every England overseer since first picked by Keegan. After an injury to Jason Wilcox, he was able to journey to UEFA Euro 2000,[23] but did not attribute in any of the side's games. Barry organised his England debut as a substitute in a pre-Euro 2000 friendly against Ukraine on 31 May 2000. His first commence for England was in the 1–1 draw against France on 2 September 2000.

He organised further England attainments in fits against South Africa, Serbia and Montenegro and Slovakia in 2003.
Barry was recollected to the England squad pursuing a four-year worldwide exile on 2 February 2007. Barry was resigned to never winning another cap below beforehand person enlisting Sven-Göran Eriksson but Steve McClaren brought him behind for the first time since March 2003. Barry was brought on at the innovation of the second half of the friendly fit against Spain on 7 February 2007 as refilling for Steven Gerrard and played withdrew midfield for the majority of the game, transferring to left-back after Stewart Downing was brought on. England hidden 1–0 thanks to a second half Andrés Iniesta goal. On 25 May 2007, Barry played for England B in a 3–1 victory through Albania, bringing an augment for England's first objective scored by Alan Smith. Barry revived his England worldwide career by originating on as a substitute, deposing Michael Carrick in a friendly against Germany, at Wembley. As confirmed by John Motson during the BBC Commentary for this game, Barry has now played below 5 dissimilar England Managers (including England U21 and England B-Team).[citation needed]
As a refilling for the injured Owen Hargreaves, Barry commenced in inside midfield for England against Israel on 8 September 2007; with couple augments and noble overall play. He saved his location with Owen Hargreaves documented unfit for the fit against Russia on 12 September 2007, and effected another amazing show in public, proving to be more than competent at worldwide level. BBC pundits Ian Wright and Alan Shearer said that Barry was immense in the quintessence of midfield alongside Gerrard, profiling a wonderful partnership combined, and further said that he ought have been given man of the fit overall for the couple shows against Israel and Russia.

He was also given the official man of the fit for England's Euro 2008 home qualifier against Estonia. He was picked to commence against Switzerland on 6 February 2008, the first game of the Capello era. He was again picked to commence in England's friendly away to France on 26 March 2008. Barry scored his first worldwide objective against Trinidad and Tobago on 1 June 2008, this finished a bodily treble for Barry as he also captained England in the second half of his 20th cap.

Barry arose in every one of England's ten sporting activities during the 2008–09 season higher until the game against Andorra on 10 June 2009, for which he was suspended, having picked higher yellow cards in the sporting activities against Ukraine and Kazakhstan. In the game against Kazakhstan on 6 June, he scored his second worldwide objective on his 13th cap, heading a pass from Steven Gerrard behind across the goalkeeper and into the corner.

Whilst playing for England in a friendly against Egypt at Wembley, Barry was handed the England captaincy in a game that they won 3-1, with Barry's Manchester City teammate Shaun Wright-Phillips on the scoresheet. However an ankle injury picked higher where playing for Manchester City organised him cautious for the 2010 World Cup, yet he was included in the England squad for the tournament, nonexistent the first game but playing in the remaining three sporting activities for England.