Kendrick Grateful for Timely Bit O' Red ; Well-Travelled Defender Gives Thanks After an Ordeal in Baku [Eire Region]

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FRIENDS looked at Joe Kendrick blankly when he said he'd signed for Neftchi in the Azerbaijan Premier League. 'They didn't know if it was in Asia or Europe,' the Sligo Rovers full back recalls. He barely knew himself. It was a taste for travel that took him to the Middle East. That and the promise of a steady pay cheque.

Part of the Drogheda United side that came so close to knocking Dynamo Kiev out of the Champions League, he faced an uncertain future when the club went into examinership in autumn last year. But a Dutch football agent, friendly with the Drogs' commercial manager Ophir Zardok, sourced trials for Kendrick, John Tambouras, Faz Kuduzovic and Eamon Zayed in Baku.

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Kendrick Grateful for Timely Bit O' Red ; Well-Travelled Defender Gives Thanks After an Ordeal in Baku [Eire Region]

Eighteen-month deals followed for Kendrick and Tambouras, the switch in keeping with the Dubliner's unconventional career path. Seven years earlier, after finishing his Newcastle United ap...

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