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English footballer

Sean Highdale
Personal information
Date of birth (1991-03-04) 4 March 1991 (age 33)
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.

Early career

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.

Accident and subsequent football career

He was a passenger in a car crash in Liverpool which resulted in the death of two of his friends, 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.

After intensive rehabilitation supported by Liverpool, he went on a youth loan to Oldham Athletic before a further loan period with Welsh Premier League club Newtown at the beginning of 2011. At the end of the season, he was released by Liverpool and in July 2011 joined Vauxhall Motors, before moving to Burscough.

In 2013, he was playing in the Liverpool County Premier League for Old Xaverians. 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.

In August 2013 he registered as a player for North West Counties Football League club Widnes Vikings.

Paralympian football

In 2016, he was named in the Great Britain team to compete in the football tournament at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Brazil, eligible as a result of an acquired brain injury from the car accident in 2008. He made his Paralympics debut for the team in a match against Brazil.

External links

References

  1. "Athlete Profile: Sean Highdale". British Paralympic Association. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  2. "Young Liverpool FC star Sean Highdale critically ill after road crash". The Mirror. 8 April 2008. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  3. "Former Liverpool FC starlet Sean Highdale: how brain injury destroyed my Anfield dreams". Liverpool Echo. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  4. "Rio 2016 Paralympics: Ex-Liverpool junior Sean Highdale is heading to Rio". BBC Sport. 2 September 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  5. "Dickov's delight at first impression". Oldham Chronicle. 12 July 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  6. "Football: Highdale snapped up by Robins". County Times. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  7. "Football: Vauxhall Motors sign ex-Liverpool Youth skipper Sean Highdale". Chester Chronicle. 27 July 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  8. "Burscough add two to squad". Non-league Pitchero. October 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  9. "West Everton Xav's reclaim pole in race for Liverpool County title". Liverpool Echo. 20 April 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  10. "Liverpool star wins payout for lost career". Liverpool Echo. 25 May 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  11. "Player Movements This Week". North West Counties Football League. 30 August 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  12. "Great Britain names football 7 team for Rio". Official website of the Paralympic Movement. 13 June 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  13. "Local Lads to take on the World at Rio Paralympics". Liverpool FA. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  14. "Paralympics 2016: Great Britain football team beaten by Brazil on opening day". The Independent. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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