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Jason Roberts (footballer)
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| Jason Roberts | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jason Roberts | |
| Date of birth | January 25, 1978 | |
| Place of birth | Park Royal, London, England | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Blackburn Rovers | |
| Number | 30 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1996-1997 1997-1998 1997-1998 1998 1998-2000 2000-2004 2003-2004 2004-2006 2006- |
Hayes Wolverhampton Wanderers → Torquay United (loan) → Bristol City (loan) Bristol Rovers West Bromwich Albion → Portsmouth (loan) Wigan Athletic Blackburn Rovers |
3 (5) ? (?) 14 (6) 3 (1) 78 (38) 89 (24) 10 (1) 93 (37) 22 (4) |
| National team | ||
 Grenada |
? (?) | |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Jason Roberts (born January 25, 1978 in Park Royal, London) is a Grenadian international football player currently playing for Blackburn Rovers in the FA Premier League.
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Roberts, like his uncle Cyrille Regis, began his career in England playing for Hayes but soon moved to Torquay United on loan, where he scored six goals in 13 games. Another loan took him to Bristol City, where he scored one goal in three appearances.
Roberts finally moved to Bristol Rovers, where he played from 1998-2000. In the 1998-99 season he scored 16 goals in 32 league appearances, and continued his plunder in the next season, scoring 22 goals in 41 appearances.
Roberts moved to West Bromwich Albion for the 2000-01 season.[1] He made his debut in a 1-0 defeat away at Nottingham Forest on 12 August 2000. He scored twice against Swansea City in the League Cup on 6 September 2000, his first goals for the club. Roberts scored 15 goals in 34 appearances in 2000-01; he formed a successful partnership with Lee Hughes and fired Albion into the 1st Division playoffs. During West Brom's successful promotion campaign of 2001-02 however, Roberts' season was blighted by a persistent foot injury, breaking his fifth metatarsal three times.[2] He managed only 12 league appearances during the season, scoring seven goals.
Despite being fully fit for 2002-03, Albion's first season in the Premiership, Roberts managed only three goals in 31 games. He was loaned out for much of the 2003-04 season to Portsmouth, where he scored one goal in four appearances, but a transfer request during the mid-season saw him move to Wigan Athletic for an approximately £2 million transfer fee.[3]
Roberts started out very well at Wigan, scoring eight goals in 14 appearances to round out the 2003-04 season. Roberts continued to find the net in the 2004-05 campaign, ending the season with 21 goals in league play (second in The Championship, behind teammate Nathan Ellington). Both players were named in the PFA Championship team of the season.[4] Wigan finished second in the table behind Sunderland, earning automatic promotion to the Premiership. It was his penalty kick goal in the second minute of their August 27, 2005 match against Sunderland that served as the first Premier League goal for the Latics and led them to the first top-flight victory in Wigan Athletic's history.
With Wigan Athletic's promotion to the top flight of English football in May 2005, Jason Roberts was able to establish himself as one of the most feared strikers in The English Premiership. His goals enabled Wigan to finish the season comfortably in the top half and challenge for a European place in only their first season in the top division of English football. This success was encapsulated in one moment on Tuesday 24 January 2006 - when Roberts himself scored a last minute goal against Arsenal at Highbury in the Carling Cup semi-final to send Wigan to the first major cup final in their history.
On July 3, 2006 he joined Blackburn Rovers for £3m on a 4 year deal.[5] He scored his first goal for Blackburn in the 2-1 FA Cup semi-final defeat against Chelsea. Roberts kept this momentum towards the end of the 2006-07 season by netting five goals in as many games shaking off criticism of many fans.
He has recently founded the 'Jason Roberts Foundation' aiding kids within his native Grenada the chance to play football in order to stay out trouble and give them the same chance he was presented with.
Although Roberts has the potential to be one of the most important players for the Grenada national team, availability issues that come with playing in England have limited his impact with the team. Nevertheless, he was an important force for the team during qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup, in which the Grenada team put up an impressive showing before bowing out to the United States.
- ^ "Albion win Roberts race", BBC Sport, 2000-07-26. Retrieved on 2007-04-25.
- ^ "Jason Roberts column", BBC Sport, 2006-05-04. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
- ^ "Wigan land Roberts", BBC Sport, 2004-01-13. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
- ^ "Sunderland/Wigan dominate line-up", BBC Sport, 2005-04-24. Retrieved on 2007-04-26.
- ^ "Blackburn sign Roberts from Wigan", BBC Sport, 2006-07-03. Retrieved on 2007-04-25.
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