Jason Kelvin Scotland (born
18 February 1979) is a Trinidadian
footballer who
plays for Premier League side
Wigan Athletic as a striker.
Career
Born in
Morvant
, Trinidad and Tobago, after playing for Malick Senior Comprehensive
School, Scotland went on to play with San Juan Jabloteh and Defence Force before having a trial with Scottish
side
Dundee United in May 2003 with
fellow Trinidad player Devon
Mitchell. After impressing, Scotland joined compatriot
Collin Samuel at Tannadice
after gaining a work permit in July.
After
making his debut in August, Scotland featured mostly as a substitute in his first
season and was wanted on loan by Northern
Ireland
club Linfield in
January 2004, although no move materialised. In March,
Scotland scored his first goal for United, netting in a 3-2 win at
Livingston and four days later
scored the only goal in a 1-0 home win against
Motherwell. With three more goals that
season, Scotland scored five league goals from 21 appearances, with
the majority as substitute appearances, and was awarded a new
contract. In Scotland's second season, it again took him several
months to score, netting his first of the season in late December.
In April, however, Scotland scored perhaps his most important goal
of the season, netting the winner in the
Scottish Cup semi-final to
take United into the final. Scotland went on to play the full 90
minutes of the final as United narrowly lost 1-0 to Celtic.
In July 2005, Scotland was denied a new work permit and the club
made an appeal, which was deemed unsuccessful by a Scottish Premier
League appeals committee. Incredibly, within three weeks,
St Johnstone were successful in gaining a
work permit for the player – despite using the same dossier as
United had presented previously.
Scotland went on to net 15 goals in 31
league appearances in his first season at McDiarmid Park
, including a goal on his debut and a hat-trick in April. Scotland was named in
Trinidad Tobago's
2006 FIFA World
Cup squad. Scotland's second season produced 18 league goals,
including a goal against former club Dundee United in a
League Cup match. Despite his goal
against his former club, he received a warm reception from the
United fans.
In February 2007, Scotland was the subject of
racist taunts by a small section of Motherwell fans during St Johnstone's visit
to Fir
Park
in the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup. He went on to score
Saints' second goal in a 2-1 victory. In April 2007, Scotland was
one of three St. Johnstone players named in the SPFA's Scottish
Division One 'Team of the Year', voted for by the managers. At the
end of the
2006-07
season, in his two seasons with St Johnstone, Scotland had scored
33 goals in 66 league games for the club, an average of one goal
every two games.
In May 2007, Scotland signed for
Swansea City for a fee of £25,000
subject to obtaining a work permit, which was granted on 4 July.
Scotland scored on his debut and he helped the team to promotion to
the
Football League
Championship, finishing the season with 29 goals in all
competitions - the division's top scorer - and also earning himself
a place in the
PFA Team of the
Year.
Scotland netted a 78th minute
penalty
kick against
Plymouth
Argyle on 10 March 2009, his 50th goal for Swansea in all
competitions.
Swansea agreed to sell Scotland a fee of £2 million to
Wigan Athletic on 9 July.
Scotland signed for Wigan on a three-year contract on 18 July,
after receiving international and
visa approval. He made his debut as a
stoppage
time substitute in a 2–0 victory over
Aston Villa on 15 August.
International goals
| # |
Date |
Venue |
Opponent |
Goals |
Result |
Competition |
| 1. |
10 October 2001 |
Hasely Crawford Stadium , Port of
Spain , Trinidad & Tobago |
|
1 |
5 – 3 |
Friendly |
| 2. |
29 January 2003 |
Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of
Spain, Trinidad & Tobago |
|
1 |
1 – 2 |
Friendly |
| 3. |
23 April 2003 |
Stade Dillon , Fort de
France , Martinique |
|
1 |
2 – 3 |
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Qualifier |
| 4. |
20 June 2004 |
Manny Ramjohn Stadium , Marabella , Trinidad & Tobago |
|
1 |
4 – 0 |
2006
FIFA World Cup Qualifier |
| 5. |
14 July 2004 |
Sangam Stadium , Seoul , South Korea |
|
1 |
1 – 1 |
Friendly |
| 6. |
8 October 2008 |
Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of
Spain, Trinidad & Tobago |
|
3 |
9 – 0 |
Friendly |
|
Honours
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