Brutal knife attack in 2020 derailed former England youth star’s career as he bids for Double glory at Brandywell.
David Sneyd ANDRE WISDOM WAS pleasantly surprised to see a familiar face when he we walked through the door at Derry City last month.The Liverpool academy graduate played 22 times in the club’s first team before joining Derby County in 2017. Three years later he was the victim of a brutal knife attack that derailed his career.
Wisdom also scored in the final of the U17 European Championships as England triumphed against Spain in 2010, by which point the defender was a rising star at Liverpool. Advertisement Derry City captain Patrick McEleney. Lorcan Doherty / INPHO Lorcan Doherty / INPHO / INPHOSitting next to the defender was his manager, Ruaidhrí Higgins, and he was quick to interject. “That’s one thing about Patrick, he’s a football encyclopaedia, that boy,” Higgins said. “ used to go back and forward to Liverpool as a kid, one of the 20 clubs trying to sign him at the time. Patrick was training and playing with Andre as 14-year-olds.
Derry is not where he envisaged seeing himself when Brendan Rodgers handed him a Liverpool debut, but that incident helped him to re-evaluate life and what comes his way. “When you have physical injuries, obviously it’s physical, then the mental side you wish it didn’t happen and those types of thing,” Wisdom said.
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