Jermaine Jenas is a footballer and central midfielder who has played for Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Queens Park Rangers. In the period from 2003 to 2009, he played for the national team of England. Born February 18, 1983 in the English city of Nottingham.
Soccer player biography
Jermaine’s father, Dennis, was born with the surname “Genas”, but at the birth of his son he made every effort to change the first letter of his surname to “J”. Thus, Jermain has the initials “DJ”.
My father played football, but played in a semi-professional league. In the 80s, he played for the local Charterhouse team. Jermaine Jenas (the biography of the football player was to become the property of the country) from an early age also fell in love with the game. The guy often trained with his father and chased the ball in the yard with friends and comrades. According to Jenas, as a child, he dreamed of repeating the success of Robbie Fowler, Ian Wright and Stan Collimore.
Soon, his parents enrolled him in a local football school, where young Jenas does not miss a single training session and gradually builds up his football skills. In 1999 he began playing for the Nottingham Forest youth club.
The beginning of a professional career
The debut match at a professional level with Jenas took place in the 2001/2002 season for Nottingham Forest. At this time, the team was experiencing financial difficulties, so the head coach Paul Hart was forced to let go of players with high salaries and bet on the “young”. Jermaine Jenas played the season perfectly at Nottingham: in 31 matches he managed to score 4 times in scoring. The football talent of Jenas attracted the attention of several of the greats of the English Premier League. The best young football player of the season fell into the sphere of interests of such clubs as Manchester United, Arsenal and Newcastle. During the “transfer race, ” Jenas chose Newcastle United.
Performances in the “black and white” (Newcastle)
At Newcastle, Jermaine Jenas quickly made it to the base and became a key midfield player. The abilities and potential of the young football player were visible to the naked eye. Speed, technique, dribbling and smart layout - all this created a maximum threat for the enemy gates. As a result, Jenas played 41 matches in a season and managed to score 7 goals. In the 2002/2003 season, he was again recognized as the best young player of the Premier League.
Further fate in the composition of the “townspeople” was not the best of all - Jermain was seriously injured, because of which he could not leave for the starting lineup for a long time. Game practice was lost, so the footballer became less relevant for Newcastle and decides to change the football club.
Jermaine Jenas: Tottenham Hotspur statistics and results
At the end of the 2005 summer transfer market, Jenas received an offer from the Totenham Hotspur team. Spurs posted $ 9 million per contract with a young footballer. Under the terms of the transition, the amount could grow to 13 million if the player showed himself in the best way in the upcoming season. Both sides gave the go-ahead and soon Jenas tried on a brand new form of “lily-white”. Martin Jon (Spurs head coach) made his demands to the new midfielder extremely strict and clear: to win back the midfielder in the box-to-box style, to be distinguished by creative actions on the football field, and also score 5-8 goals per season. Nothing extraordinary was required from Jenas, this footballer knew perfectly what he was capable of.
Jermaine Jenas was a phenomenal soccer player. He saw the pitch very well, had a good shot, felt great “on the second floor”, possessed incredible speed, successfully played at interceptions and, most importantly, connected the defensive and attacking line of the team (a midfielder who manages to play both in attack and in defense). In the practice of English football, “box-to-box players” was simply called “central midfielders”. The best representatives of this style of play are Frank Lampard, Stephen Gerrard, Francesco Totti, Cesc Fabregas and Philip Lam.
As a result, Jermaine Jenas met all expectations and hopes. The debut season (2004/2005) in the Tottenham team turned out to be quite successful for the football player - he scored 7 times in 30 games played. The Spurs head coach was pleased with the newcomer, so he often let him out on the football field in the starting lineup.
The 2005/2006 English Premier League Championship for Jermain began just fine. Here he managed to score eight goals in 25 matches, but then he was seriously injured, because of which he could not finish the rest of the season. The performance in the “spurs” was the most remarkable for the career of Jenas. For “lilac-white” he played until 2011.
