Joe Devera

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Joe Devera
File:Joe Devera 1.jpg
Devera playing for Portsmouth in 2013
Personal information
Full name Joseph Devera[1]
Date of birth (1987-02-06) 6 February 1987 (age 37)[1]
Place of birth Southgate, England
Height Script error: No such module "person height".
Position(s) Centre-back
Team information
Current team
 Boreham Wood
Number 33
Youth career
000?–2005 Barnet
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2011 Barnet 177 (1)
2005 → Welwyn Garden City (loan) ? (?)
2006 → Northwood (loan) 5 (0)
2011–2013 Swindon Town 53 (2)
2013–2015 Portsmouth 72 (1)
2015– Boreham Wood 8 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:03, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Joseph "Joe" Devera (born 6 February 1987) is an English footballer who plays as a defender. He is currently playing for National League side Boreham Wood.

Career

Barnet

Born in Southgate, London,[1] Devera is a product of Barnet's youth system, and broke into the Barnet first team in the 2006–07 season. He then established himself as the club's first-choice right-back and went on to make 177 appearances at Underhill in his 6 years for the senior side, Devera's highlights at Barnet include being named as Barnet's player of the year in 2008.[2] In March 2011, he announced that he wanted to play for the Venezuela national football team,[3] Venezuela being his father's country of birth. On 8 May 2011, he was announced as Barnet's most improved and best player of the 2010–11 campaign.[4]

Swindon Town

On 13 June 2011, Devera signed for Swindon Town in League Two, as new manager Paolo Di Canio's first signing.[5] He was part of the team that was promoted to League One in the 2011/12 season. Winning the League Two title was Devera's first honour as a player. In the following 2012/2013 season Devera was part of the 'Robins' side that reached the play-offs and faced Brentford. Swindon lost on penalties in the second leg of the semi-finals but Devera managed to score a goal. The semi-final second leg was Devera's last game for Swindon and he was released after making 66 appearances in all competitions.

Portsmouth

On 14 May 2013, Devera signed for League Two side Portsmouth on a two-year contract.[5] He made his debut in a 4-1 home defeat to Oxford United on the 3rd of August 2013.

Devera was a first-choice for Portsmouth over the course of two seasons, being mainly deployed as a centre-back and a right-back. It was announced on 18 May 2015 that his contract would not be renewed, and that he would be leaving at the end of the season.[6]

Career statistics

As of 2 May 2015.
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other1 Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Barnet 2005–06 0 0 — — 1 0 1 0
2006–07 26 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 33 0
2007–08 44 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 49 0
2008–09 34 1 1 0 1 0 — 36 1
2009–10 34 0 — 1 0 1 0 36 0
2010–11 43 1 2 0 — 1 0 46 1
Subtotal 186 2 9 0 5 0 6 0 206 2
Northwood (loan) 2005–06 5 0 — — — 5 0
Subtotal 5 0 — — — 5 0
Swindon Town 2011–12 28 2 1 0 1 0 5 0 35 2
2012–13 25 0 — 3 0 3 1 31 1
Subtotal 53 2 1 0 4 0 8 1 66 3
Portsmouth 2013–14 33 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 37 0
2014–15 39 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 43 1
Subtotal 72 1 2 0 3 0 3 0 80 1
Career total 309 5 12 0 12 0 17 1 351 6

1 Including Football League Trophy and Football League play-offs.

Honours

Swindon Town

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Joe wins player of the year
  3. ↑ Bees ace eyes call-up
  4. ↑ Devera tops fans poll
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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