Ben Burgess

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Ben Burgess
Personal information
Full name	Benjamin Kieron Burgess
Date of birth	November 9, 1981 (1981-11-09) (age 26)
Place of birth	Buxton, England
Height	6'3" (191cm)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Blackpool
Number	27
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998–2002 2000–2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003 2003-2006 2006-	Blackburn Rovers → Northern Spirit (loan) → Brentford (loan) Stockport → Oldham (loan) Hull City Blackpool	002 0(0) 027 (16) 043 (17) 019 0(4) 007 0(0) 070 (24) 062 0(11)
National team2
	Republic of Ireland Under-21	002 0(0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 02:49, 8 May 2008 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 6 July, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Benjamin Kieron Burgess (born 9 November 1981 in Buxton, Derbyshire) is an English-born Irish footballer, who currently plays for Blackpool. He has been capped twice by the Republic of Ireland at Under-21 level.

Contents 1 Club career 2 International career 3 Personal life 4 Honours 5 Notes 6 External links

[edit] Club career

Burgess began his football career at Blackburn Rovers in 1998, where he stayed until 2002, but made just two league appearances for the club. On 3 October 2000 he went on loan to North Sydney based Northern Spirit in Australia. He scored 16 goals in 27 appearances for the club. In the 2001-02 season he went on loan to Brentford, before moving to Stockport County on 16 July 2002. He had a two month loan spell at Oldham Athletic from January to March 2003, before signing for Hull City on 27 March.

He became the first Hull City player to score a hat-trick at the KC Stadium on 26 April 2003, in a match against Kidderminster Harriers. He was City's top scorer in their 2003-04 promotion campaign, scoring 18 goals and forming a partnership with Danny Allsopp. However, he suffered a serious cruciate ligament injury late in the season in a match against Huddersfield Town and did not appear in Hull's 2004-05 League One campaign until promotion had already been secured, showing sportsmanship by declining to accept any promotion award.

He soon returned to scoring despite playing two levels higher in the Championship, scoring one of two goals in the Tigers' first win of the 2005-06 season at home against Brighton & Hove Albion. However, further injury problems caused him to also miss the majority of that season. And in the 2006-07 season he made only three league appearances, each as a substitute.

Burgess joined Blackpool on 31 August 2006, for an initial fee of £25,000, with a further £75,000 paid after he had played 30 games. On 31 October 2006, he scored his first goals for Blackpool when he bagged a brace in a 4-4 draw with Accrington Stanley in the League Trophy.^[1] On 27 May 2007, Burgess was an unused substitute in Blackpool's League One play-off final victory over Yeovil Town at Wembley.^[2] On 14 August 2007, Burgess, on as a second-half substitute, scored the only goal of the game as Blackpool beat Huddersfield Town in the first round of the League Cup.^[3] On 7 May 2008 Blackpool activated an option to extend his contract with the club by one year.^[4]

[edit] International career

Burgess played twice for the Rep of Ireland Under-21 team.

[edit] Personal life

Away from football Burgess is currently studying to become a journalist. After the end of the 2007-08 season he spent time at the Blackpool Gazette as a trainee journalist on work experience,^[5] during which time he wrote an article about the England national team.^[6]

[edit] Honours

Blackpool

• League One play-off final winner: 2006-07

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Ben Burgess profile at blackpoolfc.co.uk
• Ben Burgess career stats at Soccerbase
• Profile at PlayerHistory.com

Preceded by Ivan Ergić

NSL U21 Player of the Year 2000/01

Succeeded by Joseph Schirripa

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