Clive Mendonca
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| Clive Mendonca | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Clive Paul Mendonca | |
| Date of birth | 9 September 1968 | |
| Place of birth | Islington, London, England | |
| Height | 5' 10" (1.78 m) | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1986–1988 1988 1988–1991 1991–1992 1992 1992–1997 1997–2002 |
Sheffield United → Doncaster Rovers (loan) Rotherham United Sheffield United → Grimsby Town (loan) Grimsby Town Charlton Athletic Total |
13 (4) 2 (0) 84 (27) 10 (1) 10 (3) 156 (57) 84 (40) 359 (132) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Clive Paul Mendonca (born 9 September 1968 in Islington, London) is an English former professional footballer, who played as a striker. He is the nephew of former West Indian cricketer Ivor Mendonca.
Mendonca started his career with Sheffield United, before spells with Doncaster Rovers, Rotherham United and Sheffield United again. Mendonca then moved to Grimsby Town in 1992, initially on loan. Mendonca scored 60 goals in 166 appearances for Grimsby, and is considered to be their best striker in recent history.[1] Mendonca moved to Charlton Athletic in the summer of 1997 and scored twenty eight times for the Addicks in the 1997–98 season, including a hat-trick against Sunderland in the Division One play-off final at Wembley. Mendonca is one of many players to score a hat-trick or more at the old Wembley Stadium, with Alan Shearer, Geoff Hurst, Paul Scholes Stan Mortensen, Luther Blissett, Eric Cantona, Malcolm MacDonald, Alex Jackson, Nandor Hidegkuti, David Speedie, and Dennis Wilshaw being amongst the others. Mendonca also scored a penalty in the subsequent penalty shoot-out after a 4–4 draw, which Charlton won 7–6.
Mendonca scored another hat-trick in Charlton's first home game in the Premier League, a 5–0 win against Southampton. However, Mendonca started to suffer a series of injury problems, with his final appearance for Charlton coming in the first half of the 1999–2000 season against Queens Park Rangers. Although a possible return to Grimsby was mooted,[2] Mendonca retired from football in February 2002.[3]
In 2004 he won both the BBC's "Grimsby's cult heroes"[4] and "Charlton's cult heroes"[5] polls with 52% and 43% respectively. He was the only player to win more than one club's poll.
[edit] References
- ^ "Cod Almighty - Clive Mendonca T-shirts: our tribute to the dude". http://www.codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?page=t-shirts/clive. Retrieved on 2007-11-13.
- ^ "Grimsby delay Mendonca bid". BBC. 2001-11-22. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/grimsby_town/1670717.stm. Retrieved on 2007-11-13.
- ^ "Mendonca ends career". BBC. 2002-02-01. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/charlton_athletic/1795789.stm. Retrieved on 2007-11-13.
- ^ BBC Sport - Grimsby's cult heroes
- ^ BBC Sport - Charlton's cult heroes
