by Guest Sun Sep 12 2010, 20:32
Jonathan Obika
Currently on loan at Crystal Palace having agreed to join the Championship club for the 2010-11 season.
This followed involvement with the Spurs First Team during pre-season, for whom he featured three times and scored twice.
The powerful young striker ended the previous season of loan action at Wembley.
Jon joined Millwall in February and was on the bench as the Lions gained promotion to the Championship against Swindon in May, 2010.
He made 12 substitute appearances as Millwall pushed for promotion and scored a key equalising goal in injury time at his former loan club Yeovil in April, 2010.
Jon earlier returned to Yeovil on loan at the start of the 2009-10 camapign having enjoyed a fruitful loan spell at Huish Park at the end of the 2008-09 season.
This time he scored seven goals in 25 appearances in all competitions.
Jon was awarded the Breakthrough Award by Spurs supporters at the end of the 2008-09 season.
This came after Jon not only spearheaded the Under-18s in an impressive season and caught the eye in his first loan spell at Yeovil, but also made his full Spurs debut at White Hart Lane.
He played the full 90 minutes of our UEFA Cup Round of 32 second leg draw with Shakhtar Donetsk and more than held his own having made his senior debut as a late substitute during the win over NEC Nijmegen earlier in the competition.
It was enough to encourage Yeovil boss Terry Skiverton to take him, as well as Spurs team-mate Andros Townsend, on loan to the League One club for the latter part of the 2008-09 season.
What a decision that proved to be, as Jon scored four crucial goals in his 10 league games, ultimately keeping Yeovil in the division.
That tally added to the 16 goals he scored at Under-18 level for Spurs during 2008-09 season, as well as one at Reserve level.
In March 2009, Jon earned his first international call-up for the England Under-19s in their friendly draw with the Czech Republic at Walsall FC.
In the Autumn of that year, Jon represented England at the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt.
The Enfield-born striker was brought up in Edmonton and attended Bishops Stortford School before joining our Academy full-time in July 2007.
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