Jack Storer’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Jack Frederick Wendell Storer (born 2 January 1998) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Championship club Birmingham City. He previously played for Stevenage, for whom he made his debut in the Football League, and on loan to Yeovil Town.

Career

Storer was born in Birmingham and attended Baverstock School in the Druids Heath area. He was a member of Birmingham City’s youth academy until the under-15 level, and played youth football for Shirley Town before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers’ academy in early 2013 after a trial. He was not offered a scholarship by Wolves, and briefly played junior football for Paget Rangers – becoming the club’s youngest ever first-team player and youngest goalscorer – before linking up with Stevenage, with whom he agreed a scholarship to begin in July 2014 after he left school. In his first year, he was twice named among the substitutes for League Two matches, but remained unused. He made his debut in the Football League on 18 August 2015, aged 17 years 229 days, replacing Tom Pett in the 79th minute of a 3–0 defeat away to Leyton Orient. He signed a professional contract with the club a couple of weeks later.

Storer signed a six-month contract with Birmingham City of the Championship in April 2016, to begin on 9 May when the transfer window opened. The fee was undisclosed by Birmingham, while Stevenage reported it as “a five-figure fee … with further performance payments based on success”. After scoring seven goals in pre-season friendlies, four of which came in first-team matches, his contract was extended to 2018. They also earned him a place on the bench for the opening fixture, at home to Cardiff City. He made his debut after 70 minutes, replacing Diego Fabbrini, and came close to giving Birmingham a lead when he narrowly failed to touch Reece Brown’s cutback past the goalkeeper; the match finished goalless.

His second league appearance was again as a second-half substitute, with his side losing 2–1 at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers. After seven minutes on the field, he won a free kick in an attacking area; he and opponent Kortney Hause confronted each other, and Storer was sent off for headbutting Hause. Birmingham lost 3–1. When leaving the field, Storer kicked the advertising hoardings, suffering a foot injury that kept him out for longer than the three-match ban. With Clayton Donaldson injured, Storer returned to the bench for the visit to Queens Park Rangers on 24 September, made a brief appearance, and was an unused substitute for the next two fixtures.

Having failed to feature in the matchday squad since then, Storer joined League Two club Yeovil Town on 1 January 2017, on loan until the end of the season. He went straight into the starting eleven for the following day’s visit to Crawley Town, but he and Otis Khan were both substituted at half time, as Yeovil lost 2–0. After two matches as an unused substitute, and missing one for personal reasons, his loan was cancelled on 25 January 2017 by mutual consent, again citing personal reasons.

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