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Stephen Kelly
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| Stephen Kelly | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stephen Kelly | |
| Date of birth | September 6, 1983 | |
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland | |
| Height | 5'11" / 1.80 m | |
| Nickname | Steo | |
| Playing position | Full Back | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Birmingham City | |
| Number | 2 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2000-2006 2003 2003 2003 2006- |
Tottenham Hotspur → Southend United (loan) → QPR (loan) → Watford (loan) Birmingham City |
37 (2) 10 (0) 7 (0) 13 (0) 28 (0) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2006- | Ireland | 3 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Stephen Kelly (born September 6, 1983 in Dublin, Ireland) is a professional footballer who plays at full back, (usually right full back) for Birmingham City in the Football League Championship.
He joined Tottenham Hotspur through their youth programme. He was something of an understudy to Stephen Carr (who was subsequently transferred to Newcastle United) and more recently to Paul Stalteri. He made his Spurs first team debut in 2003 and since then has made nearly fifty Premiership appearances scoring 2 league goals.
Birmingham City were believed to be winning the race to sign the defender in January 2006 only for Tottenham to pull the plug on the deal because they had an injury crisis in defence. Kelly did join Birmingham, however, on 28 June 2006 for an initial fee of £750,000 although it could rise to £1.25 million depending on his success with Birmingham City.[1]
Kelly has won Irish caps at junior levels and is now a member in the Irish full team squad making his debut versus Chile. He represented Republic of Ireland Under-20 team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.
Kelly is currently in a longtime relationship with Sociology and Economics graduate and part-time model Helga Simpson, also from Dublin, Ireland.
| Birmingham City F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Taylor | 2 Kelly | 3 Sadler | 4 Taylor | 6 Clemence | 7 Larsson | 8 Cole | 9 Forssell | 10 Jerome | 11 Gray | 12 Nafti | 13 Doyle | 14 Campbell | 15 Kilkenny | 16 Tébily | 17 Danns | 19 Vine | 21 N'Gotty | 22 Johnson | 23 Birley | 24 Jaïdi | 25 Aluko | 26 Muamba | 27 Bendtner | 28 McSheffrey | 29 Legzdins | 31 Pearce | Manager: Bruce |
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