Source: Daily_Mail
Ex-Leeds, City, Coventry and Norwich striker Darren Huckerby forced to quit
Former Norwich, Leeds, Coventry and Manchester City forward Darren Huckerby has retired from the game after suffering a hip injury while playing in America.
DARREN HUCKERBY STATS
1993-95: Lincoln City - 30 apps, 5 goals
1995-96: Newcastle - 1 app, 0 goals
1996: Millwall (loan) - 6 apps, 3 goals
1996-99: Coventry - 97 apps, 28 goals
1999-2000: Leeds - 41 apps, 4 goals
2000-3: Man City - 81 apps, 30 goals
2003: Nottm Forest (loan) - 9 apps, 5 goals
2003: Norwich (loan) - 16 apps, 5 goals
2003-8: Norwich - 216 apps, 53 goals
2008-9: San Jose - 28 apps, 9 goals
The 33-year-old's contract with the San Jose Earthquakes runs out at the end of the current Major League Soccer season and he has decided to call it a day after undergoing surgery.
Huckerby, still revered at Carrow Road after a five-year spell with the Canaries which saw 46 goals in 203 appearances as well as a promotion to the Premier League, said: 'I've got to give it a chance to see how it is but I'm 99 per cent sure that I am done.
'I look at where I started at the bottom of the third division and I have done everything that I have wanted to do in the game.'
He won the MLS Newcomer of the Year award in 2008 and had notched nine goals in 28 games before his injury.
Huckerby also won four England under-21 caps and played for England B in the 2-1 defeat at home to Chile in 1998 ahead of the World Cup but did not feature in manager Glenn Hoddle's final squad.
