Julian Joachim

Infobox Football biography
playername = Julian Joachim
fullname = Julian Jostin Joachim
height = height|ft=5|in=6
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1974|9|20|df=y
cityofbirth = Peterborough
countryofbirth = England
currentclub = King's Lynn
position = Striker
years = 1992–1996
1996–2001
2001–2004
2004–2005
2005
2005–2006
2006–2008
2008–
clubs = Leicester City
Aston Villa
Coventry City
Leeds United
→ Walsall (loan)
Boston United
Darlington
King's Lynn
caps(goals) = 099 (25)
141 (39)
056 (11)
027 0(2)
008 0(6)
046 (17)
076 (13)
005 0(1)
nationalyears = 1993–1995
nationalteam = England U21
nationalcaps(goals) = 009 0(1)
pcupdate = 19:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
ntupdate = 15 August 2006

Julian Jostin Joachim (born 20 September 1974 in Peterborough) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker. He currently plays for Kings Lynn of the Blue Square North. Over the course of his career in professional football, he scored over 100 league goals and accumulated over 450 league appearances.

Career

Joachim came through the youth system at Leicester City before being sold to Aston Villa in 1996 for £1.5 million. After five seasons in the Premiership, Joachim dropped down a division to play for the relegated Coventry City in a deal that saw Villa exchange Joachim plus £2m for Mustapha Hadji.

In 2004 Joachim moved to Leeds United, a club heavily in debt and in the process of rebuilding an inexpensive team, on a free transfer. He made 10 starts and 17 substitute appearances in the league for Leeds that year, but could only deliver two goals before being loaned out to Walsall for the final two months of the season. [cite news
date=2005-05-24
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/walsall/4379103.stm
title= Saddlers bring in Joachim on loan
publisher=BBC Sport
accessdate=2007-08-30]

Dropping down another division to League Two Joachim spent the 2005–06 with Boston United, whom he joined in July 2005. [cite news
date=2005-07-05
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/boston_united/4650175.stm
title= Joachim completes Boston switch
publisher=BBC Sport
accessdate=2007-08-30] He moved to another League Two side, Darlington, for a club record fee of £100,000 on 14 August 2006. [cite news
date=2006-08-14
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/darlington/5255910.stm
title=Darlington sign Boston's Joachim
publisher=BBC Sport
accessdate=2007-08-30] Despite making 40 league appearances and scoring 9 goals as Darlington reached the play-offs, Joachim was released at the end of the 2007–08 season. [cite news
date=2008-05-22
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/darlington/7412617.stm
title= Nine players released by Quakers
publisher=BBC Sport
accessdate=2008-06-19] He subsequently moved into non-league football, signing with newly-promoted Blue Square North side King's Lynn in June 2008. [cite news
date=2008-06-19
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/7463799.stm
title= Joachim agrees King's Lynn move
publisher=BBC Sport
accessdate=2008-06-19]

International career

Joachim had nine England under-21 caps to his name before he was called up by St. Vincent and the Grenadines to represent them at senior level. However, due to him playing for England at U21 level he was ineligible to play for the Caribbean team, only being informed of this upon arrival in St. Vincent for a World Cup qualifier in April 2000. [cite web | title=Mix -up not my fault says Joachim | work=John Curtis, Irish Examiner | url=http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2000/04/19/current/ppage_6.htm | accessdate=August 16 | accessyear=2006 ]

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