Tuesday 21 October 2008

Dave Mehmet 1981

David Nedjate "Dave" Mehmet was born in Camberwell, England, on 2nd December, 1960, of Turkish extraction. The red headed midfielder started his career under Coach Gordon Jago at second division Millwall. Before that Dave Represented Blackheathe and Inner London, which helped him become an associated schoolboy at 15 years of age. He became an apprentice at 16 and then became a full professional on his seventeenth birthday in December 1977.
A goalscorer in the Football Association Youth Cup Championship team of 1978-79, a youth internation, he was selected for the England Youth vs. Norway in 1978.
In 1981, after 114 games and 5 goals he joined the Rowdies, making 15 appreances and scoring 3 goals. This was to be his only season with the Rowdies, before signing with Charlton Athletic for the 1982-83 season. The following season, would see him move to Gillingham where he would go onto make 132 apperances and scoring 39 goals.
1986 saw him return to his first club Millwall, where he would end his League career in 1988. He would then go onto play non-league football with a number of clubs: 1988-89 Fisher Athletic, 1989 Maidstone United, 1989 Alma Swanley, 1989 Barnet, 1989 Enfield, 1989 - 1991 Fisher Athletic, 1991 Alma Swanley, 1991 - 1993 Erith & Belvedere, 1993 - 1995 Fisher Athletic, 1995-96 Erith & Belvedere, 1996 Bromley, 1996 Erith & Belvedere, 1996 - 1999 Greenwich Borough and finally Stansfeld O & BC. at the age of 40 years of age.

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