Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | [1] | 4 March 1991||
Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
2000–2008 | Liverpool | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2008–2011 | Liverpool | 0 | (0) |
2010 | → Oldham Athletic (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2011 | → Newtown (loan) | 4 | (1) |
2011 | Vauxhall Motors | 7 | (0) |
2011 | Burscough | ||
2013 | Widnes Vikings | ||
International career | |||
England Under-16 | |||
2016 | Great Britain Paralympic | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Sean Highdale (born 4 March 1991) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Highdale joined Liverpool's youth team set up aged 9, and captained the Under-18 side, including being named in the team for the 2007 FA Youth Cup final games. After his last game for Liverpool's academy, Highdale was told he would be moving as a full-time professional to Melwood, the club's main training facility in April 2008.
He was a passenger in a car crash in Liverpool which resulted in the death of two of his friends, [2] [3] and left him with critical injuries which included a bleed on his brain, three of the four main ligaments in his right knee being snapped, a broken neck and ankle. It resulted in the removal of a kidney and being in a coma for five days. [4]
After intensive rehabilitation supported by Liverpool, he went on a youth loan to Oldham Athletic [5] before a further loan period with Welsh Premier League club Newtown at the beginning of 2011. [6] At the end of the season, he was released by Liverpool and in July 2011 joined Vauxhall Motors, [7] before moving to Burscough. [8]
In 2013, he was playing in the Liverpool County Premier League for Old Xaverians. [9] Later that season he was awarded a compensatory payout of millions of pounds, which recognised the potential earnings he could have earned in his football career. [10]
In August 2013 he registered as a player for North West Counties Football League club Widnes Vikings. [11]
In 2016, he was named in the Great Britain team to compete in the football tournament at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Brazil, [12] eligible as a result of an acquired brain injury from the car accident in 2008. [13] He made his Paralympics debut for the team in a match against Brazil. [14]
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Date of birth | [1] | 4 March 1991||
Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
2000–2008 | Liverpool | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2008–2011 | Liverpool | 0 | (0) |
2010 | → Oldham Athletic (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2011 | → Newtown (loan) | 4 | (1) |
2011 | Vauxhall Motors | 7 | (0) |
2011 | Burscough | ||
2013 | Widnes Vikings | ||
International career | |||
England Under-16 | |||
2016 | Great Britain Paralympic | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Sean Highdale (born 4 March 1991) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Highdale joined Liverpool's youth team set up aged 9, and captained the Under-18 side, including being named in the team for the 2007 FA Youth Cup final games. After his last game for Liverpool's academy, Highdale was told he would be moving as a full-time professional to Melwood, the club's main training facility in April 2008.
He was a passenger in a car crash in Liverpool which resulted in the death of two of his friends, [2] [3] and left him with critical injuries which included a bleed on his brain, three of the four main ligaments in his right knee being snapped, a broken neck and ankle. It resulted in the removal of a kidney and being in a coma for five days. [4]
After intensive rehabilitation supported by Liverpool, he went on a youth loan to Oldham Athletic [5] before a further loan period with Welsh Premier League club Newtown at the beginning of 2011. [6] At the end of the season, he was released by Liverpool and in July 2011 joined Vauxhall Motors, [7] before moving to Burscough. [8]
In 2013, he was playing in the Liverpool County Premier League for Old Xaverians. [9] Later that season he was awarded a compensatory payout of millions of pounds, which recognised the potential earnings he could have earned in his football career. [10]
In August 2013 he registered as a player for North West Counties Football League club Widnes Vikings. [11]
In 2016, he was named in the Great Britain team to compete in the football tournament at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Brazil, [12] eligible as a result of an acquired brain injury from the car accident in 2008. [13] He made his Paralympics debut for the team in a match against Brazil. [14]