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Jermaine Jenas
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Personal information
Full name	Jermaine Anthony Jenas
Date of birth	February 18, 1983 (age 24)
Place of birth	Nottingham, England
Height	6 ft 0.4 in / 1.81 m
Nickname	JJ
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Tottenham Hotspur
Number	8
Youth clubs
1999-2001	Nottingham Forest
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2001-2002 2002-2005 2005-	Nottingham Forest Newcastle United Tottenham Hotspur	029 0(4) 110 0(9) 050 (11)
National team2
2001-2003 2006 2003-	England U21 England B England	009 (0) 001 (1) 015 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:52, 2 April 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 2006-10-16. * Appearances (Goals)

Jermaine Anthony Jenas (born 18 February 1983 in Nottingham) is an English football midfielder currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur, in the English Premiership.

Contents 1 Early Life 2 Club career 3 International career 4 Trivia 5 External links

Jenas attended The Becket School, in Nottingham, for his education.

Jenas began his career at Nottingham Forest where he immediately impressed during the 2001-02 season. After a single season at the City Ground, which ploughed 4 goals in 33 games, Jenas was sold to Newcastle United for £5 million in February 2002.

Despite an impressive first season with Newcastle, in which he won the PFA Young Player of the Year, Jenas failed to repeat his initial form with the club and his two subsequent seasons were disappointing considering his early promise.

Known for his strong "box-to-box" play and ability to score from midfield, Jenas' last two years with Newcastle were marked by a series of inexplicably bland displays. The goals dried up and so did the energy, leading to Jenas starting fewer games.

Despite temporarily regaining his form and gaining the vice-captaincy under new manager Graeme Souness early in the 2004-05 season, Jenas' form dipped again, fuelling speculation that all was not well with the young Englishman.

Rumours of his unhappiness were confirmed early in the 2005-06 season by manager Graeme Souness, when he revealed Jenas was not enjoying life at Newcastle, comparing it to "living in a goldfish bowl", because of the huge expectations of the Newcastle fans and the media attention. There were rumours that he was likely to replace Patrick Vieira at Arsenal. However, he was sold to Tottenham Hotspur on transfer deadline day of August 31 2005 for an initial fee of £7million, which rose to £9million after Spurs successfully qualified for European competition. He scored 12 goals in 152 appearances for Newcastle.

Jenas began to thrive at Tottenham, scoring seven goals from midfield, as Tottenham qualified for the UEFA Cup.

Jenas marked his return from a 13 match injury lay off by scoring the second goal in Tottenham's 3-1 FA Cup 4th round win over Southend United.

Jenas is often used as a stand-in captain when club capatin Ledley King, vice-captain Robbie Keane and fellow stand-in captain Paul Robinson are not playing.

Jenas has played internationally for England from the Under-15 level up to the national team, where he made his debut against Australia in February of 2003.

Despite struggling with injury towards the end of the 2005-06 season he recovered sufficiently to be named in the 2006 World Cup squad.

• Jermaine is dating Sabrina Keogh, who accompanied him to the World Cup in Germany in 2006.
• Most people commonly pronounce his name as Jee-nas, while it is actually pronounced Jeh-nas.

• Jermaine Jenas Tactical Formations at Football-Lineups.com

• Jermaine Jenas career stats at Soccerbase
• TheFA.com profile

Preceded by Craig Bellamy

PFA Young Player of the Year 2003

Succeeded by Scott Parker

	England squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists
1 Robinson | 2 Neville | 3 A. Cole | 4 Gerrard | 5 Ferdinand | 6 Terry | 7 Beckham | 8 Lampard | 9 Rooney | 10 Owen | 11 J. Cole | 12 Campbell | 13 James | 14 Bridge | 15 Carragher | 16 Hargreaves | 17 Jenas | 18 Carrick | 19 Lennon | 20 Downing | 21 Crouch | 22 Carson | 23 Walcott | Coach: Eriksson

Tottenham Hotspur F.C. - Current Squad
1 Robinson | 2 Chimbonda | 3 Lee Y.P. | 4 Zokora | 6 Tainio | 7 Stalteri | 8 Jenas | 9 Berbatov | 10 Keane | 11 Mido | 12 Černý | 13 Murphy | 14 Ghaly | 15 Malbranque | 17 Alnwick | 18 Defoe | 19 Taarabt | 20 Dawson | 22 Huddlestone | 24 O'Hara | 25 Lennon | 26 King | 28 Barnard | 29 Ifil | 30 Gardner | 32 Assou-Ekotto | 33 Rocha | 35 Dervite | 38 C. Lee | 39 Barcham | Manager: Jol