1. Gabriel Imuetinyan Agbonlahor was born on 13 October 1986 and is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward; he mostly played as a striker, but he was capable of playing on the wing.
38 Facts About Gabriel Agbonlahor
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Gabriel Agbonlahor spent his entire professional career with Aston Villa, with loan spells at Watford and Sheffield Wednesday in his late teens.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor is a product of Aston Villa's Academy, and made his first-team debut in 2006 following loans to Football League clubs Watford and Sheffield Wednesday.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor made 391 total appearances for Aston Villa, including 322 in the Premier League.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor scored 87 goals for the club, and is their leading Premier League goalscorer, with 74 across 11 consecutive league seasons.
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Formerly a regular with the England under-21s, Agbonlahor made his senior international debut for England in 2008 and earned three caps.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor came through the youth ranks at local club Aston Villa.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor signed a two-year professional contract at the club in June 2005.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor started the season on the right wing in Martin O'Neill's new-look Villa team, and would be part of the team that managed to get a point from the first Premier League match at Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor completed his run of scoring against the so-called "Big Four", when he scored against Manchester United.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor then scored deep into injury time in the following match, against Watford on 20 January 2007, to end a Villa winless run that stretched back to 11 November.
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Manager Martin O'Neill suggested that Gabriel Agbonlahor, who had been playing out of position on the right wing for much of the season, had done superbly.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor made it three in a row on Easter Monday, again scoring an equaliser, adjudged to have crossed the line by assistant referee Dave Richardson.
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On 15 August 2008, Gabriel Agbonlahor signed a new four-year contract with Villa, tying him to the club until 2012.
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On 3 November 2008, Gabriel Agbonlahor was at the centre of a controversy with Newcastle United's Joey Barton when, during the match, Barton appeared to brush his fingers on Gabriel Agbonlahor's face.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor was nominated for the PFA Young Player of the Year, with teammate Ashley Young ultimately winning the honour.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor scored his fourth and fifth consecutive goals of the season against Cardiff City in the League Cup and Blackburn in the Premier League.
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Fellow Villa forward Emile Heskey played the ball into the penalty area where Gabriel Agbonlahor turned a defender and placed a low shot past Wolves goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor finished the season with 13 goals in the Premier League, and 16 in all competitions.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor signed a new four-and-a-half-year contract on 12 November 2010, keeping him at Villa Park until at least 2015.
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On 3 April 2012, after Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov's diagnosis with acute leukaemia, Gabriel Agbonlahor was named team captain upon Petrov's diagnosis.
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On 6 April 2013, Gabriel Agbonlahor scored his 60th Premier League goal for Aston Villa, making him joint top Premier League goalscorer for the club alongside Dwight Yorke.
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On 1 April 2016, Aston Villa suspended Gabriel Agbonlahor, pending an investigation into reports that he was pictured appearing to hold a shisha pipe while on holiday in Dubai.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor was punished with a substantial fine and resigned the captaincy.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor failed to impress new manager Roberto Di Matteo in pre-season, and his lack of involvement led to media speculation of a move away from the club.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor left the club at the end of the season after his contract was not renewed, ending a 17-year association with his hometown club.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor retired from playing on 27 March 2019 at the age of 32.
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On 20 September 2006, Gabriel Agbonlahor was pencilled in as a player in the Nigeria under-20 team for the match against Rwanda.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor turned down the call, whilst not ruling out playing for the country in the future, but subsequently pledged his future to England.
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On 28 September 2006, Gabriel Agbonlahor received his first call-up to the England under-21 team, and won his first cap as a substitute for Wayne Routledge against Germany on 6 October.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor was then omitted from the England's 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squad, by manager Stuart Pearce, as a result of missing the England U21 training camp in Spain.
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On 7 March 2007, Gabriel Agbonlahor was one of several surprise names called up as part of a 37-man provisional Nigeria squad by new manager Berti Vogts, alongside fellow English players Victor Anichebe and Carl Ikeme, and full Israel international Toto Tamuz.
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On 1 February 2008, Gabriel Agbonlahor was named in Fabio Capello's 23-man England squad to play Switzerland later in the month, although a hamstring injury forced him to withdraw from the match.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor played for 76 minutes, had a goal disallowed and received high praise from John Terry, the latter describing him as "a nightmare to play against".
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Gabriel Agbonlahor was last called up to the squad in November 2011.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor's parents separated while he was still young and he was brought up by his father.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor went without contact with his mother for about 20 years.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor later contacted his mother and the pair then reconciled.