Gareth Barry is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He made 653 Premier League appearances for Aston Villa, Manchester City, Everton and West Bromwich Albion. He also represented England at international level. Barry announced his retirement from football on 27 August 2020. He is eighth in Aston Villa’s all-time list of appearances, with 441 across all competitions.
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Gareth Barry is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He made 653 Premier League appearances for Aston Villa, Manchester City, Everton and West Bromwich Albion. He also represented England at international level. Barry announced his retirement from football on 27 August 2020. Barry joined Aston Villa from Brighton and Hove Albion as a trainee in 1997. He is eighth in Aston Villa’s all-time list of appearances, with 441 across all competitions. He joined Manchester City for a fee of £12 million in June 2009, where he won the FA Cup in 2011 and the Premier League title the following season. After a season on loan, he joined Everton on a three-year contract in July 2014. Barry is a former England international, having won his first full cap in 2000 and captained the side in 2010 in a friendly against Egypt. He was included in England’s squads at UEFA Euro 2000 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He played his first match for Villa on 2 May 1998, a 3–1 win at Sheffield Wednesday, as a 49th-minute substitute for Ian Taylor. On 24 April 1999, he finished Steve Stone’s cross 12 minutes later for his first professional goal, concluding a 2–0 win over Nottingham Forest at Villa Park. On 5 April 2008, Barry helped to break a run of bad form, scoring in a 4–0 victory over Bolton Wanderers. He scored two goals and he was also credited with two assists in the final of the 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup.
In total, he made 441 appearances for Villa, scoring 52 goals in the process. In January 2009, Barry signed a five-year deal with Manchester City and wore the number 2 shirt. On 18 September 2008, he scored his 400th appearance for Villa in a Villa Cup group match against Litex Lovech, scoring a penalty as Villa beat Ajax 2–1 in their first UEFA Cup group game. On 23 October 2008, Barry scored again for Villa as they beat Ajax in their first group match of the UEFA Cup. On 25 October 2007, Barry became the youngest player to appear in 300 Premier League games, surpassing former record-holder Frank Lampard. In May 2008, Liverpool made a series of bids to buy Barry, all of which were rejected by Aston Villa. Barry publicly criticised his manager, Martin O’Neill, accusing him of making no attempt to keep him at the club, and further stating a desire to join Liverpool in order to compete in the Champions League. He remained an Aston Villa player, starting in a UEFA Cup tie against Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar, in which he scored in a four-goal win. He then won the captaincy for the 2008–09 season for the centre-back Martin Laursen. Barry was stripped of the team captaincy in January 2008, but was restored to the team in January 2009 in January 2009. In April 2009, Barry played in Villa’s 1–1 draw with Newcastle United in the Capital One Cup.
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