{"id":291684,"date":"2023-09-22T18:34:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T18:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=291684"},"modified":"2023-09-22T18:34:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T18:34:18","slug":"former-liverpool-star-joins-warrington-town-in-the-sixth-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/former-liverpool-star-joins-warrington-town-in-the-sixth-tier\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Liverpool star joins Warrington Town in the SIXTH TIER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Former Liverpool star and ex-England U21 captain signs for Warrington Town in the SIXTH TIER of English football after more than two years away as he takes route back into game<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A former Liverpool player has signed with non-league club Warrington Town\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It comes more than two years after he last played professional football\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mail Sport&#8217;s new WhatsApp Channel: Get the breaking news and exclusives here\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A former Liverpool player and England youth international has joined National League North outfit Warrington Town.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During two seasons without playing competitive football, the 30-year-old has had trials with Portsmouth, Sheffield United, Birmingham City, and Polish outfit Warta Poznan.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a long road on the search for a new club after his release from Derby County in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the defender has found a new club to call home in the north west and has penned a deal of unknown length after several weeks of training.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/22\/18\/75737429-0-A_former_England_player_and_England_youth_captain_has_signed_for-a-26_1695402846826.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A former England player and England youth captain has signed for Warrington Town\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/22\/18\/75738549-0-image-a-24_1695402695451.jpg\" height=\"458\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Andre Wisdom is the man to have signed with the sixth tier club after two years uncontracted<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>The man in question is Liverpool academy graduate Andre Wisdom, who turned out 22 times for the Reds in 2012 and 2013 under Brendan Rodgers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since his time at Liverpool, he has played for clubs at home and abroad, taking in stints at Derby County, West Bromwich Albion, Norwich City, and Red Bull Salzburg.<\/p>\n<p>He was, for a time, captain of England&#8217;s U21s squad.<\/p>\n<p>At U17s level, he was part of the England squad that won the European Championships.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His most recent club football was played in his second spell at Derby County, with whom he spent four seasons in the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Wisdom recovered in hospital from a stabbing in the summer of 2020\u00a0to play a key role in their 2020\/21 season, when they stayed up by one point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has admitted that he was &#8216;not the same&#8217; in his footballing career since he was stabbed.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Beautiful Game Podcast: &#8216;It was frustrating as when I&#8217;ve come out of hospital after like three days, I had a couple of operations, it was like my body just wasn&#8217;t the same.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/22\/18\/75738583-0-image-a-25_1695402747829.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&#8216;I tried to get back into football and it wasn&#8217;t the same, I wasn&#8217;t getting the same output in terms of power or speed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;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&#8217;t breathe that well when I came out of hospital because I had fluid on my lungs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;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&#8217;t right and my ego wouldn&#8217;t let me accept it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;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&#8217;m going to play so I&#8217;m in the shop window and then rest in the summer. Then I ripped my groin.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12550453\/Former-Liverpool-star-ex-England-U21-captain-signs-Warrington-Town-SIXTH-TIER-English-football-two-years-away-takes-route-game.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Liverpool star and ex-England U21 captain signs for Warrington Town in the SIXTH TIER of English football after more than two years away as he takes route back into game A former Liverpool player has signed with non-league club Warrington Town\u00a0 It comes more than two years after he last played professional football\u00a0 Mail&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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