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[Sir X]

Victor Moses

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Victor MosesPersonal information
Full nameVictor MosesDate of birth12 December 1990 (1990-12-12) (age 19)Place of birthKaduna, NigeriaHeight1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)Playing positionWinger, StrikerClub informationCurrent clubCrystal PalaceNumber11Youth career2004–2007Crystal PalaceSenior career*YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†2007–Crystal Palace59(10)National team‡2005–2006England U162(0)2006–2007England U1715(9)2007–England U180(0)2008–2009England U1912(2)* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:36, 28 December 2009 (UTC).
† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 02:38, 22 July 2009 (UTC)Victor Moses (born 12 December 1990) is a Nigerian born English footballer, who currently plays for Crystal Palace. Moses can play in a variety of positions, but in the first-team games he has taken part in so far, Moses has mostly played as a left winger, and he now wears the number 11 shirt. Despite being born in Nigeria he moved to England at the age of 11, after the murder of his parents. [1]
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• 1 Football career
  • 1.1 Crystal Palace
  • 2 Club career statistics
  • 2.1 England
    • 2.1.1 U-16 and U-17 level
    • 2.1.2 U-19s
  3 International career statistics
• 4 Honours
• 5 References
• 6 External links

//[edit] Football career

[edit] Crystal Palace

Moses attended elmhurst primary High School (now known as the Harris Academy) in South Norwood, during which time he was scouted playing football in the local Tandridge League, where scouts from Crystal Palace approached him, with the club's Selhurst Park stadium just streets away from his school. The scouts were so impressed that he was offered a place in the Eagles' academy, which he accepted.
Shortly after Moses joined their academy, Palace recommended him to the fee-paying Whitgift School in Croydon where former Palace player and coach Steve Kember and former Arsenal and Chelsea star Colin Pates had been coaching the school football team, in the hope that the higher quality coaching and facilities at Whitgift would further improve his development as a player.
He first came to prominence at 14 after scoring 50 goals for Palace's under-14 side, as well as heping Whitgift win a Schools Cup, scoring all five goals in the final against Healing specialist science college of Grimsby at the Walkers Stadium, Leicester.[2]
Moses came onto the first-team scene aged just 16,[3] during the 2007-08 season under Neil Warnock, and by the end of that campaign had scored for the first-team. Moses committed his future to Palace, signing a four-year contract to take him through until 2012.[4] He scored his first goal of the 2008–09 Championship season against Ipswich Town at Portman Road on 27 September 2008, in which Moses was also named man of the match and was also publicly praised by ex-Palace player John Salako after the match.[citation needed]
Moses scored his first goal of the 2009–10 season on 28 November as Palace comfortably beat Watford 3–0 at Vicarage Road, and it took just over a week for him to find the net again when he scored a brace against Reading in a 4–2 victory, which he followed up with am overhead kick to score against Barnsley, and another goal against Ipswich Town, a run that calculated to five goals in six outings.
[edit] Club career statistics

edit] England

[edit] U-16 and U-17 level

Moses has played for England at under-16, at which level he won the Victory Shield in 2005, and under-17 level. He travelled with the squad to the 2007 UEFA European U-17 Championship in Belgium, scoring three times (including the only goal in the semi-final win over France) to help John Peacock's side to the competition final, where they were narrowly beaten by a single goal by Spain, though Moses managed to finish as the competition's top scorer and collect the Golden Boot for doing so.
That same summer the squad travelled to South Korea for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. Moses finished as the Young Lions' top scorer, netting three times in the Group B fixtures, but sustained an injury in the victory over Brazil that ruled him out of the competition. Moses' teammates went on to reach the quarterfinal stage.
[edit] U-19s

Since that tournament he has been promoted to the under-18 squad, and following his goalsocring exploits for Palace's first-team, he was promoted to the under-19 side without appearing sufficiently for the U-18s to actually collect a cap. He went with the U-19s to the 2008 UEFA European U-19 Championship in the Czech Republic, playing two matches and picking up one assist as the Young Lions failed to make it out of Group B, though Brian Eastick's side did manage to secure qualification for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, to be contested in Egypt. However, Moses did not make Eastick's 21-man squad.
[edit] International career statistics

[edit] Honours

• 2005 - Victory Shield
• 2007 - UEFA U-17 European Championships - runners-up
• 2007 - UEFA U-17 European Championships - Golden Boot winner

[Sir X]

Zepp where is Adu ?

[HL]

Quite impressive.........

Don't think I have heard about him

Hope he makes it to the 'big time'.

[Sir X]

I am a 100% sure the rest of the football world said the same about the real ADU .

Is he still playing football?

[HL]

I think Freddy should return to the MLS to play football.....

It would be nice if he was playing consistently with some well known European team--but that is not happening.

Ricardo Clarke, Landon Donavan, Ching et.al ...all plays in MLS and are assured places on the senior squad.

Adu needs to come home.

CHECK THIS:

Adu, who is on loan at Belenenses from Benfica, has made only four appearances this season for a total of 122 minutes. He hasn’t played since coming on as a 79th-minute substitute in a 2-2 draw against Maritimo on Nov. 29.

It’s unclear exactly what tricky decision Adu was referring to on Twitter. He is on the record about his need to get quality minutes on the field. He told Chris Bevan of the BBC in November, “I needed to be on a team that gave me the best chance of playing consistently and because it gives me the best chance of making the US team for next summer’s World Cup. I can make the World Cup team if I play regularly here and well.”

That wasn’t happening under Pareira and Adu’s loan goes to the end of the season. Could Adu get a sniff under a new coach?

[Bayos]

Manchester City join the £5m race for Victor Moses

Manchester City will press ahead with a move for Crystal Palace striker Victor Moses this week.
The highly-rated 19-year-old is expected to leave Selhurst Park this month with Palace reluctantly looking to cash in on the forward to help ease their money problems.
Target: Victor Moses
Brian Marwood, the Eastlands football administrator, held initial talks over a potential move for Moses last week but was taken aback by the club's £5million valuation.
But Marwood wants to hold a second round of talks with Palace this week and will head down to Selhurst Park on Saturday to run the rule over Moses when Palace take on Bristol City in the Championship.
The south Londoners have only received a bid of £1.5m from West Bromwich and doubts remain whether prospective suitors including Everton, Liverpool and Birmingham, will match the cash-strapped Eagles' valuation.
But Palace chairman Simon Jordan is determined not to let a player he rates as one of the best teenagers in the world leave cheaply.
Jordan has used Aston Villa's signing of Fabian Delph of Leeds - which was understood to be in the region of £5m - as the benchmark for Moses' price tag.
Moses' agent, former Palace player Tony Finnigan, held constructive talks with Jordan over the weekend and says all parties - including Moses - are hopeful of striking a deal that suits club and player.
But Finnigan insists he has no control over how much Palace will get for his client.
He said: 'In my view Victor is worth £5m and maybe even more but I have nothing to do with what Palace will receive for Victor Moses. But from a personal point of view and as a former Palace player I hope they get the amount they desire for him.
'I hope Moses goes on to be the next household name - and he has the talent to do that - but at the moment Palace have to get a figure they are happy with.
'I sincerely hope the player I work with and represent can enable Palace to secure their financial future.'