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Craig Bellamy
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Craig Bellamy (born July 13, 1979 in Cardiff (Cardiff: The capital and largest city of Wales) ) is a Welsh (Welsh: A Celtic language of Wales) international football (football: Any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal) player.
He currently plays for Celtic F.C. (Celtic F.C.: more facts about this subject) in the Scottish Premierleague (Scottish Premierleague: the scottish premier league (spl for short) is the top division within the current structure...
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His Welsh international (Welsh international: more facts about this subject) record (as of April 2004) is 23 caps and 6 goals. He scored on his Newcastle debut, in their 4-0 defeat of Belgian side Lokeren (Lokeren: lokeren is a municipality located in the belgian province of east flanders....
[follow hyperlink for more...]) . Probably his most important moment for Newcastle United was scoring 2 goals (including the winner) in the 3-2 win over Feyenoord (Feyenoord: feyenoord rotterdam are a dutch football club from the city of rotterdam....
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More recently, he had a very public falling-out with Newcastle manager Graeme Souness (Graeme Souness: graeme souness (born edinburgh, scotland, may 6, 1953) was the captain of...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) . On 23 January 2005, Bellamy was omitted from the team for a Premiership (Premiership: The office of premier) match with Arsenal (Arsenal: A military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms) . Before the match, Souness said that Bellamy had a hamstring problem, but contradicted himself in a post-match interview, claiming that Bellamy was benched for being unprepared to play as a right-side midfielder. Minutes later, Bellamy gave an interview of his own saying that he was prepared to play in any position. He admitted that he had threatened to fake injury ahead of the Arsenal match, and in a later interview accused Souness of lying about him. Two days after the match, the club fined Bellamy two weeks' wages (about £80,000), and he was loaned to Celtic F.C. (Celtic F.C.: more facts about this subject) for the remainder of the season after he rejected a move to Birmingham City (Birmingham City: birmingham city (bcfc) is one of birminghams two professional soccer teams (the other...
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