{"id":289843,"date":"2023-09-24T16:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=289843"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:38:02","slug":"former-liverpool-defender-makes-winning-start-at-sixth-tier-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/former-liverpool-defender-makes-winning-start-at-sixth-tier-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Liverpool defender makes winning start at sixth-tier club"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Liverpool starlet made a winning start to life with Warrington Town in the sixth tier of English football.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The defender, who was signed by Warrington on Friday, played the full 90 minutes as his new side beat King’s Lynn Town 1-0 in the National League North on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The victory has seen the newly-promoted Yellows move up to 14th in the league table after winning the Northern Premier League last season.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The new signing last played competitive football for Derby County\u00a0in 2021, but has been unable to find a new club since.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Andre Wisdom, who made his Liverpool debut under Brendan Rodgers in 2012 before going on to make 22 appearances for the Reds, has been training with Warrington for several weeks.<\/p>\n
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A former England player and England youth captain made his debut for Warrington Town on Saturday<\/p>\n
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Andre Wisdom signed with the sixth-tier club on Friday after spending two years without a club<\/p>\n
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The Leeds-born defender captained England U21’s in 2013, and had loan spells at Norwich City, West Bromwich Albion and Red Bull Salzburg before leaving Anfield permanently in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His career suffered significantly after he was the victim of a stabbing in 2020, but he returned to help Derby stay in the Championship at the end of the 2020-21 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, he has admitted his body ‘was not the same’ as it had been before the incident.<\/p>\n
He revealed to The Beautiful Game Podcast: ‘It was frustrating as when I’ve come out of hospital after like three days, I had a couple of operations, it was like my body just wasn’t the same.<\/p>\n
‘I tried to get back into football and it wasn’t the same, I wasn’t getting the same output in terms of power or speed.<\/p>\n
‘It was hard to take and with that comes a lot of other niggles. I got stabbed in the head. I got headaches. A little cut here (points to his chest) I couldn’t breathe that well when I came out of hospital because I had fluid on my lungs.<\/p>\n
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The 30-year-old played for Derby County most recently but revealed that after being stabbed, his body was not the same\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘I think I rushed coming back to football. So once I could walk, which was like three weeks I went straight back to football. As men we get ahead of ourselves. I played two games and I wasn’t right and my ego wouldn’t let me accept it.<\/p>\n
‘It was the last year of my contract and Derby were going through the financial issues so I remember speaking to my agent at the time I was like I’m going to play so I’m in the shop window and then rest in the summer. Then I ripped my groin.’\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wisdom underwent unsuccessful trials at Portsmouth, Sheffield United and Birmingham City before signing for Warrington.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
He told the BBC after the match: ‘It was really good to play my first 90 minutes in a while today, thanks to Warrington, the manager and all the lads who\u2019ve worked with me.’<\/p>\n
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