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Jermaine Paul Alexander Beckford (born 9 December 1983) is a football pundit and former professional
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who played as a striker. He began his career as a trainee at Chelsea, and played for
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, Everton,
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and Bury. He also represented
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at international level.


Club career


Early career

Beckford originally began his career in the Chelsea
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, coming through the schoolboy ranks at the same time as Carlton Cole. Rejected by Chelsea in 2003, he was signed up by
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, then in the Isthmian Premier League, and played as a semi-professional for three years whilst also working as a windscreen fitter for the RAC. His very impressive goal scoring record for Wealdstone attracted a lot of attention from
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sides and reportedly more than 30 professional clubs showed an interest in the prolific striker, with many sending
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to watch him play for Wealdstone. He had a trial with
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, before signing for
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in March 2006 for an undisclosed fee, having scored 35 goals in 40 games for Wealdstone that season.


Leeds United

Beckford made his debut for Championship side
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coming on as a substitute in a home defeat against Crystal Palace on 21 March. He only made four more first team appearances. He joined
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on a month's
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on 5 October 2006 and scored on his debut for the club in a game against
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. After completing his loan spell, he returned to Leeds, made a single appearance, and was loaned out again, this time to League One promotion challengers
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until the end of the season. He played in every single game after his arrival, scoring eight goals, as Scunthorpe went on to finish as champions. Returning to Leeds for the 2007–08 season (their first—of three—in League One), Beckford scored his first competitive goal for the club in a 4–1 victory against
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on 18 August. Beckford signed a new three-year deal with Leeds, keeping him at the club until the end of the 2009–10 season, and won October 2007's League One Fans' Player of the Month award. In March 2008 he won two awards at the third annual Football League Awards at
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– League One Player of the Year and the Football League Goal of the Year, for his strike against
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during his loan spell with Scunthorpe United. Beckford started the 2008–09 season by scoring ten goals in eight starts, including his first ever professional
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as Leeds beat League Two side Chester City in the first round of the League Cup. By the end of the season he had scored 27 goals in all competitions and was offered a new contract by the club. After initially rejecting it, he was transfer listed. Two bids for Beckford were rejected by Leeds, and then he was removed from the transfer list, remaining at the club. By the end of December in the 2009–10 season Beckford already had 18 goals for the season and, with interest from
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reported, he handed in a
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. He came to further prominence scoring the only goal as Leeds beat old rivals
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in the third round of the FA Cup – the first time they had been knocked out of a competition so early under
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. Beckford then withdrew his transfer request days before scoring twice in the FA Cup fourth round, taking
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to a replay. By the end of the season Beckford had scored 31 goals in all competitions, 25 in the league, as Leeds finished in second place to gain automatic promotion to the Championship. He won Leeds United's goal of the season at Leeds' annual Player of the Season awards for his goal against Manchester United at
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. Following the end of the season, in May 2010, Leeds cancelled Beckford's contract a month early to enable him to find a new club.


Everton

In May 2010, Beckford signed for Everton on a four-year contract on a free transfer and was given squad number 16. After playing and scoring in pre-season friendlies Beckford made his Everton debut as a second-half substitute against
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and his full debut a week later at home to
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. He scored his first goal for the club, a penalty, against
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in the League Cup in August 2010 and an injury-time equaliser at home against his future employers
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in November 2010 was Beckford's first league goal for the Toffees. He also scored at
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against Liverpool in the
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. In the last game of the season he scored a solo goal in a 1–0 win against Chelsea at
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. At the end of his debut season for Everton he had scored eight goals in the league and ten in all competitions.


Leicester City

On 31 August 2011, Everton accepted a £2.5 million bid for Beckford from
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. Beckford arrived at the
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just 40 minutes before the summer transfer window closed to sign a four-year contract, making him Leicester City's 12th signing of the summer. He scored his first goal for the club in a 2–0 win over
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on 19 October 2011. On 17 January, Beckford scored his first hat-trick for Leicester, in a 4–0 FA Cup win over Nottingham Forest – Leicester's
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. He scored a brace against Swindon Town in the FA Cup, and scored two more braces in March 2012, in a 3–1 win against
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, and a 3–3 draw against
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. On 28 September 2012, it was announced that Jermaine Beckford had joined
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on a 93-day emergency loan until 29 December, following a week training with the Leicester City under 21 squad and a failed loan bid from the same club on 31 August. He made his debut the following day in the 3–2 loss to Watford at the
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. He scored his first goal for the club in the 1–0 win over Birmingham City at St Andrew's on 6 October 2012.


Bolton Wanderers

On 17 July 2013, he moved to
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for an undisclosed fee, signing a two-year contract. He made his debut for Bolton in their 1–1 draw with
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rivals
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on 3 August 2013, playing eighty minutes before being replaced by Craig Davies. His first goal came in the League Cup second round, as he scored against Tranmere Rovers in a 1–1 draw; he also scored one of the penalties in the
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that Bolton ultimately ended up losing 4–2. He scored his first league goal for Bolton in their 2–1 win away at Birmingham City which coincided with the club's first league win of the new season. Whilst not getting off to the best start, goals started to come with him scoring 5 in 6 in matches against
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,
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, Millwall and Watford and the aforementioned Birmingham. Striker Joe Mason joined Bolton on 11 November 2013, on a short-term loan deal. This saw Beckford dropped to the bench for a while, until returning to the starting line up and scoring against his former club Leicester City on 30 December 2013. Bolton went on to lose the game 5–3. Beckford's first goal of the 2014–15 season came on 26 August 2014, scoring twice in the League Cup against Crewe Alexandra.


Preston North End

On 20 November 2014 he signed for
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on loan until the end of the 2014–15 season, linking up with his former Leeds manager
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once again. Five days later his North End debut came, in a Football League Trophy match at Oldham Athletic; his first league appearance for Preston was on 29 November against Yeovil Town. The frontman scored his first goal for Preston against Peterborough United on 20 December, and his last of 2014 eight days later against Crewe. He rediscovered his form, and in total he scored 18 goals for Preston in 31 appearances in all competitions, including a hat-trick in the play-off final at
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against Swindon Town on 24 May 2015 to win the club promotion to the Championship. After being released by Bolton Wanderers, Beckford signed a permanent two-year contract with Preston North End effective from 1 July 2015. Beckford made ten league appearances plus one in the League Cup in his first full season at North End, scoring twice. Beckford's first goal of the 2016–17 season came on 20 August 2016 in a 2–0 win over
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. He was sent off in a defeat to Sheffield Wednesday on 3 December for fighting with fellow North Ender
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, who was also red carded. His return from suspension for the Lilywhites lasted only three minutes as Beckford was sent off again, on 26 December against his former club Leeds United, for kicking Leeds' Kyle Bartley.


Bury

Following his release from Preston, Beckford signed a two-year deal with Bury on 15 May 2017. Beckford scored his first goal for Bury on 5 August against Walsall in a 1–0 win. He started a total of 15 matches for the club, plus three appearances as a substitute, and scored eight goals. Having missed most of the 2018–19 season with a persistent injury, on 27 August 2019 Beckford announced his decision to retire from football at the age of 35.


International career

Due to having a Jamaican father and Grenadian mother Beckford was eligible under FIFA regulations to play for either
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,
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or
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. Beckford was approached by Grenada's coach
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with a view to playing for the
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in May 2009. In May 2011, the ''Jamaica Star'' reported that Beckford was close to finalising an agreement to play for
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. In November 2012, the Jamaican Football Federation reported that Beckford had shown interest playing for the Reggae Boyz and was in the pool of players eligible to be called up for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. On 31 January 2013, Beckford was called up to the Jamaica squad for the first time for Jamaica's fixture against
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, but had to pull out of the squad a day later with an injury. Beckford made a total of six appearances for Jamaica, scoring one goal in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match against the
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in June 2013.


Personal life

Since retiring, Beckford has made numerous television appearances as a football
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. His younger brother, Travis, won the first series of '' Wayne Rooney's Street Striker'' on
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. Before signing a contract at
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, Beckford worked for the
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.


Career statistics


Club


International

:''Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Beckford goal.''


Honours

Leeds United *
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runner-up: 2009–10 Preston North End *
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:
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Individual *
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: 2007–08 League One * PFA Fans' Player of the Year: 2008–09 League One *
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: September 2008, December 2009, April 2015 *Football League One Player of the Year: 2007–08, 2009–10 *Football League Goal of the Year: 2007–08 * Leeds United Player of the Year: 2007–08, 2008–09


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