{{short description|English footballer (born 1975)}} {{use British English|date=July 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Sammy Igoe | image = | fullname = Samuel Gary Igoe | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1975|9|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Staines-upon-Thames, England<ref name="Hugman 2008-09">{{cite book | editor-last = Hugman | editor-first = Barry J. | title = The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2008–09 | publisher = Mainstream | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-1-84596-324-8}}</ref> | height = | position = Midfielder | years1 = 1994–2000 | years2 = 2000–2003 | years3 = 2003 | years4 = 2003–2005 | years5 = 2005–2006 | years6 = 2006 | years7 = 2006–2008 | years8 = 2008 | years9 = 2008–2010 | years10 = 2010–2012 | years11 = 2012–2014 | years12 = 2014 | clubs1 = Portsmouth | clubs2 = Reading | clubs3 = → Luton Town (loan) | clubs4 = Swindon Town | clubs5 = Millwall | clubs6 = → Bristol Rovers (loan) | clubs7 = Bristol Rovers | clubs8 = → Hereford United (loan) | clubs9 = AFC Bournemouth | clubs10 = Havant & Waterlooville | clubs11 = Gosport Borough | clubs12 = → Bognor Regis Town (loan) | caps1 = 160 | goals1 = 11 | caps2 = 87 | goals2 = 7 | caps3 = 2 | goals3 = 0 | caps4 = 79 | goals4 = 9 | caps5 = 5 | goals5 = 0 | caps6 = 11 | goals6 = 1 | caps7 = 61 | goals7 = 1 | caps8 = 4 | goals8 = 0 | caps9 = 49 | goals9 = 3 | caps10 = 65 | goals10 = 5 | caps11 = 53 | goals11 = 2 | caps12 = | goals12 = | totalcaps = 576 | totalgoals = 39 | club-update = }} '''Samuel Gary Igoe''' (born 30 September 1975) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder during his career. He represented the England national beach soccer team.
==Career== He started his career with Portsmouth, and after spells with Reading, Luton Town and Swindon Town. Igoe signed for Millwall in August 2005<ref>{{cite news |title=Igoe completes move to Millwall |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/millwall/4672571.stm |publisher=BBC Sport |date=19 July 2005 |accessdate=31 August 2007}}</ref> but he struggled to maintain a first team place after Steve Claridge was sacked as manager.
thumb|left|250px|Sammy Igoe rolls in Bristol Rovers' third goal to seal their promotion to League One (Igoe not pictured). Igoe impressed Bristol Rovers manager Paul Trollope during a loan spell at the club at the end of the 2005–06 season, and in the summer of 2006 he signed for the club on a permanent basis.<ref>{{cite news |title=Midfielder Igoe seals Rovers move |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bristol_rovers/5172998.stm |publisher=BBC Sport |date=29 July 2006 |accessdate=31 August 2007}}</ref>
The next season, he became a regular in midfield. The highlight of the season came right at the end, he scored the last goal in the play-off final, in the 3–1 win against Shrewsbury Town at Wembley Stadium, on 26 May, running 60 yards to score it into an empty net, after the Shrewsbury goalkeeper had gone to the other goal to try to score an equaliser.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/may/27/match.bristolrovers|title=Walker brace tames Shrews as Rovers enjoy final flourish|work=The Guardian|date=27 May 2007|accessdate=5 December 2013}}</ref>
Igoe was given a loan spell at Hereford United, joining on 27 March 2008. When he returned from his loan spell at the end of the 2007–08 season he was released from his contract with Bristol Rovers, along with Chris Carruthers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bristol_rovers/7400796.stm |title=Rovers release Igoe & Carruthers |publisher=BBC Sport |date=14 May 2008 |accessdate=16 May 2008}}</ref>
Igoe then signed a one-year contract with AFC Bournemouth after impressing whilst on trial.
On 10 May 2010, Igoe was released from Bournemouth having not being offered a new contract. On 30 June, he signed a one-year contract with Havant & Waterlooville with an option for another year.
In July 2012, having made 65 appearances for Havant & Waterlooville and scored 5 goals, Igoe signed for newly promoted Southern League Premier Division side Gosport Borough.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gosportboroughfc.com/news/n040712.htm |title=Gosport Borough Football Club – Official Site |website=gosportboroughfc.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729165816/http://www.gosportboroughfc.com/news/n040712.htm |archive-date=2012-07-29}}</ref>
On 27 March 2014, it was announced that Igoe had joined Isthmian League Premier Division side Bognor Regis Town on loan.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bognor.co.uk/sport/local-football/ex-pompey-midfielder-joins-rocks-1-5965480 |title=Ex-Pompey midfielder joins Rocks – Bognor Regis Observer |website=bognor.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330051316/http://www.bognor.co.uk/sport/local-football/ex-pompey-midfielder-joins-rocks-1-5965480 |archive-date=2014-03-30}}</ref>
==International career== Igoe was a part of the England beach soccer team that finished in third-place at the inaugural 1995 Beach Soccer World Championships.<ref> {{cite web|url=https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/sammy-igoe-how-copacabana-beach-zico-and-frank-worthington-marked-resurrection-of-my-portsmouth-career-3027235|title=Sammy Igoe: How Copacabana Beach, Zico and Frank Worthington marked resurrection of my Portsmouth career|publisher=Portsmouth News|last1=Allen|first1=Neil|date=6 November 2020|accessdate=15 February 2024}}</ref>
==Honours== '''Bristol Rovers''' *Football League Two play-offs: 2007<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/6686951.stm |title=Bristol Rovers 3–1 Shrewsbury |first=Chris |last=Bevan |website=BBC Sport |date=26 May 2007 |access-date=3 June 2025}}</ref> *Football League Trophy runner-up: 2006–07<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6514043.stm |title=Bristol Rovers 2–3 Doncaster Rovers AET |last=Hughes |first=Ian |website=BBC Sport |date=1 April 2007 |access-date=17 March 2024}}</ref>
'''Gosport Borough''' *Southern League Premier Division play-offs: 2013
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==External links== *{{Soccerbase}}
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