Dean Whitehead (born 12 January 1982) is an English football coach and former professional footballer player, He is currently assistant manager of EFL Championship club Watford. A midfielder who occasionally played as a right-back, he made 622 league and cup appearances in a 19-year playing career, scoring 29 goals.
Whitehead joined his local non-League club Abingdon Town before he signed for Football League club Oxford United in 1999. He played for Oxford in the Second Division until their relegation into the Third Division in 2001. He was signed by Championship club Sunderland in 2004. He won promotion in his first season with Sunderland, although they were relegated from the Premier League after one season. He was made captain by Roy Keane as Sunderland claimed an instant return to the top flight. After two more seasons in the north-east, Whitehead signed for Stoke City in 2009. He helped Stoke reach the 2011 FA Cup final, where the team finished runners-up to Manchester City. After spending four seasons with Stoke, Whitehead signed for Middlesbrough in 2013. He moved to Huddersfield Town two years later, helping them to get promoted to the Championship in 2017 before retiring in 2018.
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football team, while being named All-Conference as a senior. Whitehead moved on to Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts, where he played wide receiver...
lost 2–0 to Norwich City, and Nsue played the second half in place of DeanWhitehead after both goals had already been conceded. Despite Karanka's insistence...
January 2009, Young was sent off for a two-footed foul on Sunderland's DeanWhitehead. On 26 April 2009, he won the PFA Young Player of the Year award. On...
Marseille captain 2007–2009 Succeeded by Mamadou Niang Preceded by DeanWhitehead Sunderland captain 2009–2010 Succeeded by Lee Cattermole Preceded by...
first task was to release Rory Delap, Mamady Sidibe, Matthew Upson, DeanWhitehead, Carlo Nash and Matty Lund, at the same time giving Jermaine Pennant...
friends with future Hall of Famer Dizzy Dean. Whitehead was selected to the All-Star team in 1935. Whitehead was traded to the Giants in December for...
Michael Hefele, Florent Hadergjonaj; Philip Billing, Jonathan Hogg (c) (DeanWhitehead (c), 70'); Rajiv van La Parra, Joe Lolley (Abdelhamid Sabiri, 46'),...
19 October 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2016. "Emmanuel Ledesma Joins DeanWhitehead In Departing Boro This Summer". Middlesbrough F.C. 11 June 2014. Archived...
the century named was: Fullback Alf Dancey, Wingers Philip Carver, DeanWhitehead, Centres Laurie Foley (Captain) and Colin Wright Five Eight Les Jackson...
Institution, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Past Whitehead Fellows include George Q. Daley, Dean of Harvard Medical School; Angelika Amon, the late...
their home match against Wigan. It came from a free kick floated in by DeanWhitehead, opening the scoring in the 2–0 defeat of the Latics. On 29 August 2008...