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Experienced striker makes 46th move of his playing career aged 41

One particular experienced non league striker has got himself in the headlines once again as he makes his 46th move of his playing career aged 41.

Forward Jefferson Louis, is still going strong aged 41 years old, signs a deal to join Southern League Premier Division South outfit Beaconsfield Town.

It comes following a short stint at St Albans City, and in his first four games for the Saints, he managed to score twice. Though the coronavirus pandemic limited how many games he ended up playing in.

He made his Football League debut for Oxford United in 2002, making over 50 appearances for them until 2004, which he also managed to do for Wealdstone ten years later.

In 2008, Louis also played alongside his cousin Richard Pacquette for Dominica in a World Cup qualifier against Barbados, his side ended up losing 1-0.

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HIS CAREER STATS:

1996–1998 – Risborough Rangers – 49 apps (19 goals)
1998–2000 – Thame United
2000–2001 – Aylesbury United – 14 apps (5 goals)
2001–2002 – Thame United
2002–2004 – Oxford United – 55 apps (7 goals)
2003 → Woking (loan) – 8 apps (0 goals)
2004 → Gravesend & Northfleet (loan) – 5 apps (2 goals)
2004 Forest Green Rovers – 8 apps (1 goal)
2004–2005 – Woking – 23 apps (3 goals)
2005 – Bristol Rovers – 9 apps (0 goals)
2005 – Hemel Hempstead Town – 1 apps (1 goal)
2005 – Lewes – 2 apps (0 goals)
2005 – Worthing – 6 apps (2 goals)
2005–2006 – Stevenage Borough – 18 apps (6 goals)
2006 – Eastleigh – 6 apps (1 goal)
2006–2007 – Yeading – 8 apps (4 goals)
2007 – Havant & Waterlooville – 20 apps (5 goals)
2007–2008 – Weymouth – 21 apps (7 goals)
2008 – Maidenhead United – 3 apps (0 goals)
2008 – Mansfield Town – 18 apps (4 goals)
2008–2009 – Wrexham – 42 apps (15 goals)
2009–2010 – Crawley Town – 18 apps (5 goals)
2009–2010 → Rushden & Diamonds (loan) – 26 apps (7 goals)
2010–2011 – Gainsborough Trinity – 9 apps (1 goal)
2010–2011 → Darlington (loan) – 6 apps (0 goals)
2011 – Weymouth – 1 apps (0 goals)
2011 – Hayes & Yeading United – 10 apps (1 goal)
2011 – Maidenhead United – 12 apps (3 goals)
2011–2012 – Brackley Town – 8 apps (13 goals)
2012 – Lincoln City – 14 apps (6 goals)
2012 – Newport County – 17 apps (2 goals)
2012 → Whitehawk (loan) – 6 apps (4 goals)
2013 – Brackley Town – 24 apps (7 goals)
2013–2014 – Hendon – 25 apps (22 goals)
2014 – Margate – 17 apps (9 goals)
2014 – Lowestoft Town – 15 apps (3 goals)
2014–2016 – Wealdstone – 57 apps (18 goals)
2016 – Staines Town – 10 apps (3 goals)
2016–2017 – Oxford City – 29 apps (8 goals)
2017 – Banbury United – 21 apps (13 goals)
2017–2018 – Chesham United 23 apps (8 goals)
2018 – Farnborough – 6 apps (2)
2018–2019 – Chesham United – 45 apps (12 goals)
2019 – Hampton & Richmond Borough – 6 apps (1 goal)
2019–2020 – St Albans City – 5 apps (2 goals)

“It’s the passion and the love for it,” he said in an interview back in January 2020. “The changing room. The banter. Being around the boys and helping out the young players. If I can help push someone in my team to become a professional, that’s what I’ll do.

“I’m very competitive. I want to win and score goals. This season I haven’t really been hitting the back of the net too often, but I feel like I’ve adapted my game for the team. Before I used to play for myself in a sense. I just used to want to score, but now I have to adapt myself to help the team progress.”

“I’m not going to lie, growing up in London I was a bit of a rebel,” he says. “I didn’t hide how I felt. People used to misread me. When you’re young, people don’t really want you to be opinionated and speak your mind.

“Because I come from a big family, the way I was brought up was that if you want people to listen to you, you have to speak your mind. That’s what people didn’t understand with me. In my family, if you don’t speak up and tell people how you feel, then they’ll never know.”

This headstrong approach caused problems with a few clubs, cutting some opportunities short. “When I went on trial at Millwall at 14, they wanted me, but one of the coaches at the time said something to me and I didn’t like it. I challenged him and he obviously thought, ‘This boy’s no good.’”

Social media users gave their astonished reaction to the news that the experienced striker makes a 46th move of his playing career aged 41 – see what they had to say below…

@CallumCarsonWLC: Jefferson Louis has just signed for the 40th club of his career. Yes. 40.

@JeremyAlbert20: Am off to watch Beaconsfield !!! #hero

@shirtlane: Anyone able to name all the clubs the ‘journeyman’ @jlouislee9 has played for? I’ll give you one – @BeaconsfieldFC

@efcsmith98: If you minused 33 of the clubs hes played for hed still have played for more clubs than people allowed to gather together

@efcsmith98: If you minused 33 of the clubs hes played for hed still have played for more clubs than people allowed to gather together

@C0AKESY: Christ this blokes had more clubs then Beaconsfield have fans.

@followtrawler: I believe that this is club number 45… that’s damn impressive!

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