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Lee Andrew Hendrie (born 18 May 1977) is an English former professional
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and pundit for
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. As a player, he was a
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who notably played in the
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for
Aston Villa Aston Villa Football Club is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club competes in the , the top tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1874, they have played at their home ground, Villa Park ...
where he spent fourteen years. He also played for the
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and England B sides, and earned one full cap for
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in 1998. He has also played in
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for
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and
Bradford City Bradford City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system and are currently managed by Mark Hughes. Th ...
. Following a spell in
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with
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he became a
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in non-league football, playing for
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,
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,
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,
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, Tamworth,
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, Highgate United, Basford United,
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and
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based Montpellier FC.


Playing career


Aston Villa

Born in
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, Hendrie was red carded on his debut for
Aston Villa Aston Villa Football Club is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club competes in the , the top tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1874, they have played at their home ground, Villa Park ...
as a substitute in a 1–0 defeat at
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on 23 December 1995. He went on to achieve the accolade of the club's "Young Player of the Season" award in the 1997–98 season. Whilst at Aston Villa he played in the
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. After losing his place in the Villa team during the 2005–06 season it seemed Hendrie's long spell at
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was coming to an end, with
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reportedly showing an interest in his services. On 29 September he joined
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on loan, on the recommendation of his father. On 30 January 2007, he extended his loan spell with the Potters until the end of the 2006–07 season. He played 28 times for Stoke scoring three goals which came against
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,
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and
Norwich City Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries or The Yellows) is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk. The club competes in the EFL Championship following their relegation from the Premier League in the 20 ...
. During Hendrie's time with Villa, he crashed his
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as he tried to make a plane for a European game and his manager
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had to deal with other disciplinary matters.


Sheffield United

Hendrie signed a three-year contract with
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after arriving on a free transfer in July 2007, making his debut on the opening day of the season, a 2–2 home draw with
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. However, he was dogged by injuries for the first half of the season. Hendrie scored his first goal for ''the Blades'' in a 5–0 win over
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in the
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in September 2007, but was unable to hold down a regular first-team place as the club struggled in the bottom half of the table. He scored his first league goal for Sheffield United in a 2–1 win over
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on 12 January 2008. With the departure of
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in February 2008, new manager
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quickly allowed Hendrie to join
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in an emergency loan deal, with a view to a permanent move. He scored the winning goal for Leicester in a 1–0 win over
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on 29 March 2008 but could not prevent the club's relegation to
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and he subsequently returned to
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. In November 2008 he joined
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on loan initially until 1 January 2009, making his debut as a second-half substitute the same day in the
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at home to
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at
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. He was sent off for Blackpool versus
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on 9 December 2008 and returned to Sheffield United on 31 December 2008 having made six appearances. Having returned to Bramall Lane once more he vowed to try to force his way into first team contention having been given a wake up call by his time at Blackpool. He made a number of further substitute appearances for ''The Blades'' up to the end of the season. Having been brought off the bench in the 85th minute of the play off final against
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at
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he was subsequently sent off after the final whistle had blown for directing foul language at referee Mike Dean. Following ''the Blades'' unsuccessful play off campaign Hendrie was placed on the transfer list as the club sought to cut its wage bill.


Derby County

On 1 September 2009, Hendrie joined
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in a swap deal that involved Jordan Stewart moving in the opposite direction. Partly due to injury, Hendrie made just five starts for Derby before he moved to
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on loan for the rest of the season on 23 March 2010. It was announced on 13 May 2010, that he would leave Derby at the end of his contract after just 10 appearances from his nine months with the club.


Bradford City

Hendrie was set to join Scottish-side
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but the deal fell through at the last minute. Instead, he started training with Championship side
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, but was not offered a contract and was instead offered a short-term deal at his cousin John Hendrie's former club
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by manager
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. Taylor had previously managed Hendrie for England under-21s. Talking about his signing and the short-term deal, Hendrie said: "These next few weeks will be very interesting for me, and I will knuckle down. I have to use this to build up my fitness and get back to my peak." On 1 January 2011 it was confirmed by Bradford manager Peter Taylor that Hendrie's deal would not be extended due to finances and that the player had in fact, left the club. Taylor said "I feel really sorry for him. He has been a superb professional during his time at the football club. Lee's a great lad, he's still a great player. We have a League Two budget and we could only take this deal so far". Hendrie had played 14 times for The Bantams and had scored twice. Hendrie was offered a deal by
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side
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but turned it down because of a better offer from
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, a club from Indonesian breakaway league,
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.


Bandung

On 26 January 2011, Indonesian club
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announced the signing of Hendrie on a free transfer. Hendrie signed a two-year contract with the Indonesian outfit and was assigned the number 10 jersey. He was both the first Englishman and the first player with
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experience to sign for a
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club. He made his debut on 5 February 2011 in a 1–0 defeat against
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. He scored his first goal for Bandung and provided an assist for Perry Somah on 12 February 2011 in a 3–2 defeat against Batavia Union. On 12 March 2011, he provided another assist for Somah in a 1–0 win against
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. It was Bandung's first win in the 2011 Liga Primer Indonesia. At the end of season Hendrie was released from the club which then folded.


Non-league football

Throughout the summer of 2011, Hendrie joined a number of clubs for training and on trial. He was linked with a move to
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but any hopes of that materialising broke down with manager Dean Saunders' departure to
Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The team compete in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club play their home games at ...
. In July he joined
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on a month's trial, however after just three weeks he left on his own accord. In late August, Hendrie agreed to train with Hinckley United, staying with the club for a month and playing in one friendly match at the start of October. Later that month, he signed for
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until the end of the season. Hendrie was signed by Daventry Town manager
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who was one of his former teammates at
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. He made his debut for the club on 15 October 2011 in an
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match against
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. He played his first league game in a 2–0 loss against
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three days later. Hendrie's first win as a Daventry Town player came on 22 October as Kidsgrove Athletic were beaten 4–3 in the
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of the
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. Hendrie's younger brother, Stuart, joined him at Daventry on 21 October 2011, signing on a short-team loan deal from Hinckley United. On 9 November 2011 Hendrie was unveiled by
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as having signed on non-contract terms. Allocated the number 34 shirt, he made his league debut on 26 November 2011 as a 60th-minute substitute in a 0–0 home draw with
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; he would go on to play in a further 14 league matches for Kidderminster before his release in March 2012. Immediately upon his release by Kidderminster, Hendrie signed for
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side
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, returning to the lower levels of English non-league football after a 5-month absence. His Chasetown debut came in a 1–1 home draw with
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on 20 March 2012. On 29 March 2012, Hendrie joined Southern League Premier club
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, the club his father managed from 1991 to 1995, on a non-contract basis until the end of the season. Hendrie joined his brother Stuart at Redditch, the latter once again on loan from parent club Hinckley United. Hendrie signed for Tamworth in the summer of 2012, taking the number 8 shirt; he made his debut for the club on 6 October 2012 as a 60th-minute substitute for
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in a 2–1 home defeat to Newport County. He announced his retirement from the game in May 2013 to focus on his work as a director at FootieBugs, a football activity programme company for young children. He resumed his playing career in September 2013, joining
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. Hendrie soon moved on from Corby and on 3 December 2013, he played for Highgate United in their away
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fixture against
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-based Basford United on 5 December. He remained dual-registered for Highgate, allowing him to potentially play for the club again (subject to his availability). He made a second appearance for the club two weeks later, on a night when Basford United did not have a fixture. Hendrie scored on his début for Basford against Armthorpe Welfare. In April 2014 Hendrie stated he was a victim of forgery and that someone had falsified transfer documents claiming he was moving to
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. Hendrie left Basford United in October 2015. He subsequently played for Montpellier (based in
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), before returning to
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. He then signed for
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, before returning to Highgate United.


International career

Despite his Scottish and Irish parentage, Hendrie represented England, the country of his birth, at international level. He appeared twelve times for the England under-21 team, scoring five goals. Hendrie made a single appearance for the England B in April 1998, a 4-1 victory against Russia B a few months before the
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but was not selected for the final squad. He won his only full international
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for England at the age of 21 as a late substitute on 18 November 1998 against the
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.


Media career

Hendrie now works as a pundit for
Sky Sports Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It ...
. In 2019 and 2020, Hendrie featured in both seasons of
ITV ITV or iTV may refer to: ITV *Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of: ** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
show
Harry's Heroes ''Harry's Heroes'' is an English documentary television programme produced by Fremantle for ITV. The first series ''Harry's Heroes: The Full English'' aired in March 2019. Series 2, entitled ''Harry's Heroes: Euro Having a Laugh'' aired in May 20 ...
, which featured former football manager
Harry Redknapp Henry James Redknapp (born 2 March 1947) is an English former football manager and player. He has previously managed AFC Bournemouth, West Ham United, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers and Birmingham City. In his ...
attempting get a squad of former England international footballers back fit and healthy for a game against Germany legends. Hendrie gained extra praise for opening up on his struggles with mental health. For Season Two of the
Apple TV An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ...
series
Ted Lasso ''Ted Lasso'' is an American sports comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, and Joe Kelly. It is based on a character of the same name that Sudeikis first portrayed in a series of promos for NB ...
, assistant director Sophie Worger hired former professional player Kasali Casal to manage the soccer choreography. Casal enlisted a team of former professional players to play for the opposition teams facing AFC Richmond during game scenes, these included Hendrie and fellow former
Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Foo ...
players and
Jay Bothroyd Jay Bothroyd (born 7 May 1982) is a former English professional footballer who last played as a striker for J1 League club Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo. A product of the Arsenal Academy, he left in 2000 and signed with Coventry City, spending th ...
,
Jermaine Pennant Jermaine Lloyd Pennant (born 15 January 1983) is an English former professional association football, footballer who played as a midfielder#Winger, winger. Pennant made over 350 league appearances for 15 clubs, and scored 25 league goals. Born ...
and
George Elokobi George Nganyuo Elokobi (born 31 January 1986) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a defender and is interim manager at Maidstone United. Elokobi moved from his native Cameroon to England at the age of 16, where he e ...
.


Personal life

Lee Hendrie is the son of Scottish former professional footballer Paul Hendrie. Paul Hendrie moved to England in March 1972 to join
Birmingham City Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. Since 2011, the first te ...
. Hendrie was born in
Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...
on 18 May 1977. His younger brother,
Stuart Hendrie Stuart Scott Hendrie (born 1 November 1989) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays for side Walsall Wood, as a striker. He previously played for a number of non-League clubs in the Midlands area, and made seven appearances in t ...
, is also a footballer, who played alongside him at
Daventry Town Daventry Town F.C. is a football club based in the town of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, formed in 1886. They are members of the . History The club was established in 1886 as a local-town club playing in the Northampton Town League. T ...
. Hendrie is the cousin of another Scottish professional footballer, John Hendrie. On 27 January 2012, Hendrie was declared
bankrupt Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debt ...
by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs at the High Court. During this time, Hendrie twice tried to take his own life. Aside from his playing career Hendrie is also a director of FootieBugs, a sister company of YogaBugs, which provides football-based activities and events for children aged 2 to 7.


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International

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Honours

Aston Villa *
UEFA Intertoto Cup The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from la, Inter, 'between' + german: toto, 'betting pool'),Most precisely, from (football pool); cf. often abbreviated and more known in the German-speaking world as UI Cup and originally called the International Foot ...
:
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
*
FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competi ...
runner-up: 1999–2000 Individual *Aston Villa Young Player of the Season: 1997–98


References


External links

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BBC Sport profile
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