Marcus Bent

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marcus Bent
Occupation	Soccer Player
Date Of Birth	May 19, 1978(1978-05-19)
Age	46
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Marcus Bent Biography

Marcus Bent is one of the most popular and richest Soccer Player who was born on May 19, 1978 in England, United Kingdom. English striker, who scored 97 goals over his 500-game club career. He played with many teams, including Blackburn, Sheffield United and Everton. After a season playing for Mitra Kukar, he retired in 2012.

From 2008 to 2011, he was trained by He was coached by Alex McLeish on Birmingham City from 2008 to 2011. in Birmingham City.

Bent was born in Hammersmith, London, to parents of Jamaican origin. Prior to signing a scholarship with Brentford in 1994, he was named Marcus Lecky. He has a younger brother, Elliott, who is ten years his junior and is also a footballer. Elliott was a youth team player at Fulham, until injury saw him released in 2007. He dropped into non-league football and has played for Dorchester Town, Welling United and Hampton & Richmond Borough.

Bent graduated through the Brentford youth ranks, usually playing as a forward. He broke into the first team at Griffin Park in 1995–96 under manager David Webb, helping the “Bees” to a 15th-place finish in the Second Division. Bent was almost ever-present in a successful season that saw Brentford reach the play-offs in 1996–97 with a fourth-place finish. He played at Wembley in the play-off Final defeat to Crewe Alexandra, and was substituted after 70 minutes for Scott Canham. Bent then scored five goals in 29 games in 1997–98, as the “Bees” struggled in vain to avoid relegation under Eddie May and then his replacement Micky Adams.

He had a daughter with Olympian Kelly Clark.

Marcus Bent Net Worth

Marcus Bent is one of the richest Soccer Player from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marcus Bent 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1995, he made his professional debut at Brentford.

He was part of the 1998 English U21 team and appeared in 2 matches.

Marcus Nathan Bent (born 19 May 1978) is an English former professional footballer who plays as a forward for Eastern Counties League Division One North side Cornard United. An England under-21 international, the journeyman striker played 573 games and scored 113 goals for fourteen different clubs. His numerous transfer fees totalled over £10 million.

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Bent became the “Blades” top scorer in 1999–2000 with 15 league goals in 32 appearances, including a hat-trick past West Bromwich Albion in a 6–0 thrashing at Bramall Lane on 19 February. The club had struggled under Adrian Heath, before finding an upturn in results after Neil Warnock stepped into the hot-seat in December. He began the 2000–01 campaign in fine form, hitting a hat-trick past Lincoln City in a 6–1 win in the League Cup. He was then sold on to promotion chasing Blackburn Rovers for £2 million in November 2000; the transfer was seen as good business for both clubs.

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Marcus Ranked on the list of most popular Soccer Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Marcus Bent celebrates birthday on May 19 of every year.

Despite Bent scoring nine times in 22 league starts, the “Blues” were relegated from the Premier League at the end of the 2001–02 season. He stayed at Portman Road for the 2002–03 campaign, hitting 12 goals in 38 games, as the “Tractor Boys” missed out on the play-offs by one place and four points. However Ipswich entered administration, and were forced to sell talent such as Marcus Stewart, Titus Bramble and Darren Ambrose; a relegation battle was only avoided after manager George Burley was replaced by Joe Royle. Ipswich then found another striking talent, Darren Bent (no relation), and Bent joined newly promoted Premier League side Leicester City on loan for the 2003–04 campaign, in a move that reunited him with manager Micky Adams. Bent scored ten goals in 35 games, though the First Division beckoned for the “Foxes”, as the Walkers Stadium outfit finished six points behind 17th place Everton.