Clive Mendonca

Clive Mendonca

Personal information
Full name	Clive Paul Mendonca
Date of birth	9 September 1968 (1968-09-09) (age 43)
Place of birth	Sunderland, England
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1986–1988	Sheffield United	13	(4)
1988	→ Doncaster Rovers (loan)	2	(0)
1988–1991	Rotherham United	84	(27)
1991–1992	Sheffield United	10	(1)
1992	→ Grimsby Town (loan)	10	(3)
1992–1997	Grimsby Town	156	(57)
1997–2002	Charlton Athletic	84	(40)
Total		359	(132)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Clive Paul Mendonca (born 9 September 1968 in Sunderland) is an English former professional footballer, who played as a striker between 1986 and 2002 notably for Grimsby Town and Charlton Athletic. Mendonca also played for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Rotherham United.

Career

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 among the others. His hat-trick in 1998 was the last one to be scored at the original Wembley Stadium for an English league team. 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]

Personal life

He is the nephew of former West Indian cricketer Ivor Mendonca. 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.

References

1. ^ "Cod Almighty - Clive Mendonca T-shirts: our tribute to the dude". http://www.codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?page=t-shirts/clive. Retrieved 2007-11-13. 
2. ^ "Grimsby delay Mendonca bid". BBC. 2001-11-22. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/grimsby_town/1670717.stm. Retrieved 2007-11-13. 
3. ^ "Mendonca ends career". BBC. 2002-02-01. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/charlton_athletic/1795789.stm. Retrieved 2007-11-13. 
4. ^ BBC Sport - Grimsby's cult heroes
5. ^ BBC Sport - Charlton's cult heroes

External links

• Clive Mendonca career stats at Soccerbase

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Name	Mendonca, Clive
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Date of birth	9 September 1968
Place of birth	Sunderland, England
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