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Avery John
Personal information
Full name	Avery John
Date of birth	June 18, 1975 (age 31)
Place of birth	Point Fortin, Trinidad and Tobago
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position	defender
Club information
Current club	New England Revolution
Number	4
Youth clubs
1994-95 1996-99	Yavapai JC American University
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004-	Boston Bulldogs New Orleans Storm Shelbourne Bohemian F.C. Longford Town New England Revolution	11 (0) 0 (0) 10 (0) 19 (1) 16 (0) 40 (1)
National team2
1996-	Trinidad and Tobago	59 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:21, 3 July 2006 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 20 June 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Avery John (born June 18, 1975 in Point Fortin, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidadian football player, who currently plays as a defender for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer.

Contents 1 Youth 2 Club Career 3 International 4 Trivia 5 See also

After football for his high school, Presentation College, John played for Yavapai Junior College in Arizona and American University in Washington, DC. In his four seasons with American, John was named First Team All-Colonial Athletic Association and Second Team All-South Atlantic Region in his second year. In that same year, he helped win the CAA Championship and bring the team into the NCAA Quarterfinals[1].

Upon graduating, John played briefly in the American A-League, with the Steve Nicol-coached Boston Bulldogs, and subsequently followed his namesake Stern John on the New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers.

Before joining the Revolution, John has spent much of his professional career playing in the Irish Eircom League. John is perhaps best known in Ireland for playing for Bohemian F.C., with whom he spent two spells and worked under three different managers. John was a fan favourite with Bohemians, where he became a cult figure who had several songs in his honour. John also had a brief spell with Shelbourne F.C., and most recently Longford Town, who he was with before joining the Revolution. In his first year with the Revolution, John started 19 games, playing a total of 1808 minutes.

John has appeared in over 50 matches with the Trinidad and Tobago national team. In his first match at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was dismissed with his second yellow card for a rash tackle on Sweden's Christian Wilhelmsson, making John the first player to be sent off in the tournament and causing him to miss Trinidad and Tobago's high profile game with England.

Avery John was the only footballer playing in the 2006 World Cup to have also played in the League of Ireland.

• List of current MLS players

	Trinidad and Tobago squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup
1 Hislop | 2 Cox | 3 A. John | 4 Andrews | 5 Sancho | 6 Lawrence | 7 Birchall | 8 Gray | 9 Whitley | 10 Latapy | 11 Edwards | 12 Samuel | 13 Glen | 14 S. John | 15 Jones | 16 Wise | 17 Charles | 18 Theobald | 19 Yorke | 20 Scotland | 21 Jack | 22 Ince | 23 Wolfe | Coach: Beenhakker

New England Revolution - Current Squad
1 Reis | 2 Igwe | 3 Hernandez | 4 John | 5 Sims | 6 Heaps | 7 Cristman | 8 Franchino | 11 Noonan | 12 Warren | 13 Larentowicz | 14 Ralston | 15 Parkhurst | 16 Riley | 17 Flood | 18 Smith | 19 Lochhead | 20 Twellman | 21 Joseph | 22 Leonard | 23 Gonzalez | 24 Knighton | 25 Dorman | 27 Thompson | 28 Loftus | 30 Solle | 32 Oka | Coach: Nicol