Name	Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Birth date	September 29, 106 BC
Birth place	Picenum, Roman Republic
Death date	September 30, 48 BC (aged 59)
Death place	Ptolemaic Kingdom
Occupation	Politician and military commander
Spouse	AntistiaAemilia ScauraMucia TertiaJuliaCornelia Metella }}

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey () or Pompey the Great (Classical Latin abbreviation: CN·POMPEIVS·CN·F·SEX·N·MAGNVS; September 29, 106 BC – September 29, 48 BC), was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic. He came from a wealthy Italian provincial background, and established himself in the ranks of Roman nobility by successful leadership in several military campaigns. Sulla addressed him by the cognomen ''Magnus'' (the Great), and he was awarded three ''triumphs''.

Pompey joined his rival Marcus Licinius Crassus and his ally Julius Ceasar in the unofficial military-political alliance known as the First Triumvirate. The first triumvirate was validated by the marriage between Julia Caesar (daughter of Julius Caesar) and Pompey. After the deaths of Julia and Crassus, Pompey sided with the ''optimates'', the conservative and aristocratic faction of the Roman Senate.

Pompey and Caesar contended for the leadership of the Roman state, leading to a civil war. When Pompey was defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus, he sought refuge in Egypt, where he was assassinated. His career and defeat are significant in Rome's subsequent transformation from Republic to Principate and Empire.

Early life and political debut

Pompey's father, Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, was a wealthy landed Italian provincial from Picenum, one of the ''homines novi'' (new men). Pompeius Strabo ascended the traditional ''cursus honorum'', becoming ''quaestor'' in 104 BC, ''praetor'' in 92 BC and ''consul'' in 89 BC, and acquired a reputation for greed, political double-dealing and military ruthlessness. He supported Sulla's traditionalist ''optimates'' against the popularist general Marius in the first Marian-Sullan war.

He died during the Marian siege against Rome in 87 BC, either as a casualty of pandemic plague, or struck by lightning, or possibly both. In Plutarch's account, his body was dragged from its bier by the mob. His twenty year old son Pompey inherited his estates, his political leanings and the loyalty of his legions.

Pompey had served two years under his father's command, and was involved in the final acts of the Marsic Social War against the Italians. He returned to Rome and was prosecuted for misappropriation of plunder: his betrothal to the judge's daughter, Antistia, secured a rapid acquittal.

For the next few years, the Marians had possession of Italy. When Sulla returned from campaign against Mithridates in 83 BC, Pompey raised three Picenean legions to support him against the Marian regime of Gnaeus Papirius Carbo.

Sulla and his allies displaced the Marians in Italy and Rome: Sulla, now Dictator of Rome, was impressed by the young Pompey's self-confident performance. He addressed him as ''imperator'' and offered his stepdaughter, Aemilia Scaura, in marriage. Aemilia – already married and pregnant – divorced her husband and Pompey divorced Antistia. Though Aemilia died in childbirth soon after, the marriage confirmed Pompey's loyalty and greatly boosted his career.

Sicily and Africa

With the war in Italy over, Sulla sent Pompey against the Marians in Sicily and Africa. In 82 BC, Pompey secured Sicily, guaranteeing Rome's grain supply. He executed Gnaeus Papirius Carbo and his supporters out of hand, which may have led to his dubbing as the ''adulescens carnifex'' (adolescent butcher). In 81 BC, he moved on to the Roman province of Africa, where he defeated Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and the Numidian king Hiarbas, after a hard-fought battle.

After this string of victories, Pompey was proclaimed ''Imperator'' by his troops on the field in Africa; once back in Rome, he was given an enthusiastic popular reception and hailed by Sulla as ''Magnus'' (the Great) – probably in recognition of Pompey's undoubted victories and popularity, but also with some degree of sarcasm. The young general was still officially a mere ''privatus'' (private citizen) who had held no offices in the ''cursus honorum''. The title may have been meant to cut Pompey down to size; he himself used it only later in his career.

When Pompey demanded a triumph for his African victories, Sulla refused; it would be an unprecedented, even illegal, honour for a young privatus – he must disband his legions. Pompey refused, and presented himself expectantly at the gates of Rome. Sulla gave in. However, Sulla had his own triumph first, then allowed Metellus Pius his triumph, relegating Pompey to an extra-legal third place in a quick succession of triumphs.

On the day, Pompey attempted to upstage both his seniors in a triumphal chariot towed by an elephant, representing his exotic African conquests. The elephant would not fit through the city gate. Some hasty replanning was needed, much to the embarrassment of Pompey and amusement of those present. His refusal to give in to his troops' near-mutinous demands for cash probably impressed his mentor and Rome's conservatives.

Quintus Sertorius and Spartacus

Pompey's career seems to have been driven by desire for military glory and disregard for traditional political constraints. In the consular elections of 78 BC, he supported Lepidus against Sulla's wishes. In 78, Sulla died; when Lepidus revolted, Pompey suppressed him on behalf of the Senate. Then he asked for proconsular ''imperium'' in Hispania to deal with the ''populares'' general Quintus Sertorius, who had held out for the past three years against Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, one of Sulla's most able generals.

The Roman aristocracy turned him down – they were beginning to fear the young, popular and successful general. Pompey resorted to his tried and tested persuasion; he refused to disband his legions until his request was granted. The senate acceded, reluctantly granted him the title of proconsul and powers equal to those of Metellus, and sent him to Hispania.

Pompey remained there from 76 – 71 BC; he was for long unable to bring the war to an end due to Sertorius' guerrilla tactics. Though he was never able to decisively beat Sertorius (and he nearly met disaster at the battle of ), he won several campaigns against his junior officers. His war of attrition did significantly weaken Sertorius, and by 74 BC, Metellus and Pompey were winning city after city.

Finally, Pompey managed to crush the ''populares'' when Sertorius was murdered by his own officer, Marcus Perperna Vento, who was defeated in 72 by the young general, at their first battle. By early 71, the whole of Hispania was subdued. Pompey showed a talent for efficient organisation and fair administration in the conquered province; this extended his patronage throughout Hispania and into southern Gaul. Some time in 71 BC, he set off for Italy, along with his army.

Meanwhile, Crassus was facing Spartacus to end Rome's Third Servile War. Crassus defeated Spartacus, but in his march towards Rome, Pompey encountered the remnants of Spartacus' army; he captured five thousand of them and claimed the credit for finishing the revolt, which infuriated Crassus.

Back in Rome, Pompey was wildly popular. On December 31, 71 BC, he was given a triumph for his victories in Hispania – like his first, it was granted extralegally. To his admirers, he was the most brilliant general of the age, evidently favoured by the gods and a possible champion of the people's rights. He had successfully faced down Sulla and his Senate; he or his influence might restore the traditional plebian rights and privileges lost under Sulla's dictatorship.

So Pompey was allowed to bypass another ancient Roman tradition; at only 39 years of age and while not even a senator, he was elected ''Consul'' by an overwhelming majority vote, and served in 70 BC with Crassus as partner. Pompey's meteoric rise to the consulship was unprecedented; his tactics offended the traditionalist nobility whose values he claimed to share and defend. He had left them no option but to allow his consulship.

Campaign against the pirates

Two years after his consulship, Pompey was offered command of a naval task force to deal with piracy in the Mediterranean Sea. The conservative faction of the Senate remained suspicious and wary of him; this seemed yet another illegal or at least extraordinary appointment. Pompey's supporters for this command – including Caesar – were in the minority, but support was whipped up through his nomination by the Tribune of the Plebs Aulus Gabinius who proposed a ''Lex Gabinia''; Pompey should have control over the sea and the coasts for 50 miles inland. This would set him above every military leader in the East – it was passed despite vehement opposition.

According to Rome's historians, pirates had freely plundered the coastal cities of Greece, Asia and Italy itself. The extent and nature of their threat is questionable; anything that threatened Rome's grain supply was cause for panic. Roman public opinion and Pompey's supporters may have exaggerated the problem. Various settlements, peoples and city-states around the Mediterranean had coexisted several centuries and most had operated small fleets for war, or trade in commodities, including slaves. Their alliances might be loose and temporary or more-or-less permanent; some regarded themselves as nations.

With Rome's increasing hegemony, the independent maritime economies of the Mediterranean would have been further marginalised; an increasing number would have resorted to piracy. As long as they met Rome's increasing requirement for slaves, left her allies and territories untouched and offered her enemies no support, they were tolerated. Some were subsidised. But fear of piracy was potent – and these same pirates, it was later alleged, had assisted Sertorius.

By the end of that winter, the preparations were complete. Pompey allocated one of thirteen areas to each of his ''legates'', and sent out their fleets. In forty days, the western Mediterranean was cleared. and that Pompey then attended to the largest of these alliances, centered on the coast of "Rough Cilicia". After "defeating" its fleet, he induced its surrender with promises of pardon, and settled many of its people at Soli, which was henceforward called Pompeiopolis.

De Souza (2002) finds that Pompey had officially returned the Cilicians to their own cities, which were ideal bases for piracy and not – as Dio would have it – for the dignified reformation of pirates as farmers. Pompey's entire campaign is therefore in question; its description as "war" is hyperbole – some form of treaty or payoff is likely, with Pompey as chief negotiator. This was standard practice, but undignified and seldom acknowledged; Rome's generals were supposed to wage and win wars. A decade on, in the 50's BC, the Cilicians and pirates in general remained a nuisance to Rome's sea trade.

In Rome, however, Pompey was hero; once again, he had guaranteed the grain supply. According to Plutarch, by the end of the summer of 66 BC, his forces had swept the Mediterranean clear of opposition. Pompey was hailed as the first man in Rome, ''Primus inter pares'' (the first among equals). Cicero could not resist a panegyric:

"Pompey made his preparations for the war at the end of the winter, entered upon it at the commencement of spring, and finished it in the middle of the summer."

The expedience of his campaign probably guaranteed Pompey his next and even more impressive command, this time in Rome's long-running war against Mithridates. By the 40's BC, Cicero could comment less favourably on the pirate campaign, and especially the funded "resettlement" at Soli/Pompeiopolis; "we give immunity to pirates and make our allies pay tribute."

Pompey in the east

Pompey spent the rest of that year and the beginning of the next visiting the cities of Cilicia and Pamphylia, and providing for the government of newly-conquered territories. In his absence from Rome (66 BC), he was nominated to succeed Lucius Licinius Lucullus as commander in the Third Mithridatic War against Mithridates VI of Pontus in the east. Pompey's command was proposed by the tribune Gaius Manilius, supported by Caesar and justified by Cicero in ''pro Lege Manilia''. Like the Gabinian law, it was opposed by the aristocracy, but was carried nonetheless.

Lucullus, a plebeian noble, was incensed at the prospect of his replacement by a "new man" such as Pompey. The outgoing commander and his replacements traded insults. Lucullus called Pompey a "vulture" who fed from the work of others. Lucullus was referring not merely to Pompey's new command against Mithridates, but also his claim to have finished the war against Spartacus.

At Pompey's approach, Mithridates strategically withdrew his forces. Tigranes the Great refused him refuge, so he made his way to his own dominions in the Cimmerian Bosporus. Pompey secured a treaty with Tigranes, and in 65 BC set out in pursuit of Mithridates, but met resistance from the Caucasian Iberians and Albanians. He advanced to Phasis in Colchis and liaised with his legate Servilius, admiral of his Euxine fleet, before decisively defeating Mithridates.

Pompey then retraced his steps, wintered at Pontus, and made it into a Roman province. In 64 BC, he marched into Syria, deposed its king, Antiochus XIII Asiaticus, and reconstituted this, too, as a Roman province. In 63 BC, he moved south, and established Roman supremacy in Phoenicia and Coele-Syria.

In Judea, Pompey intervened in civil war between Hyrcanus II, who supported the Pharisee faction and Aristobulus II, who supported the Sadducees in Judaea's civil war. The armies of Pompey and Hyrcanus II laid siege to Jerusalem. After three months, the city fell.

"Of the Jews there fell twelve thousand, but of the Romans very few.... and no small enormities were committed about the temple itself, which, in former ages, had been inaccessible, and seen by none; for Pompey went into it, and not a few of those that were with him also, and saw all that which it was unlawful for any other men to see but only for the high priests. There were in that temple the golden table, the holy candlestick, and the pouring vessels, and a great quantity of spices; and besides these there were among the treasures two thousand talents of sacred money: yet did Pompey touch nothing of all this, on account of his regard to religion; and in this point also he acted in a manner that was worthy of his virtue. The next day he gave order to those that had the charge of the temple to cleanse it, and to bring what offerings the law required to God; and restored the high priesthood to Hyrcanus, both because he had been useful to him in other respects, and because he hindered the Jews in the country from giving Aristobulus any assistance in his war against him." (Josephus, ''Antiquities of the Jews'', book 14, chapter 4; tr. by William Whiston, available at Project Gutenberg.)

During the war in Judea, Pompey heard of Mithridates' suicide; his army had deserted him for his son Pharnaces.

In Pompey's absence, his old supporter Cicero had risen to the consulship. His old enemy and colleague Crassus supported Caesar. In the Senate and behind its scenes, Pompey was probably equally admired, feared and excluded; on the streets he was as popular as ever. His eastern victories earned him his third triumph. On his 45th birthday, in 61 BC, he rode the triumphal chariot, a magnificent god-king, but one of Republican form, ritualistically reminded of his impermanence and mortality. Even so, he was accompanied by a gigantic portrait head of himself, studded with pearls.

His third triumph exceeded all others; an unprecedented two days were scheduled for its procession and games (''ludi''). Spoils, prisoners, army and banners depicting battle scenes wended the triumphal route between the Campus Martius and the Capitoline temple of Jupiter. To conclude, he gave an immense triumphal banquet and money to the people of Rome, and promised them a new theatre. Plutarch claimed this triumph represented Pompey's – and therefore Rome's – domination over the entire world, an achievement to outshine even Alexander's.

In the meantime, Pompey promised his retiring veterans public lands to farm, then dismissed his armies. It was a reassuringly traditional gesture, but the Senate remained suspicious. They debated and delayed his eastern political settlements and the promised gifts of public land. From now on, Pompey seems to have toed a cautious line between his enthusiastic popular supporters and the conservatives who seemed so reluctant to acknowledge his solid achievements. It would lead him into unexpected political alliances.

Caesar and the First Triumvirate

Although Pompey and Crassus distrusted each other, Crassus' tax farming clients were being rebuffed at the same time Pompey's veterans were being ignored, and by 61 BC, their grievances had pushed them both into an alliance with Caesar, six years younger than Pompey, returning from service in Hispania, and ready to seek the consulship for 59 BC. Their political alliance, known as the First Triumvirate, operated to the benefit of each. Pompey and Crassus would make Caesar Consul, and Caesar would use his consular power to promote their claims.

Caesar's consulship of 59 BC brought Pompey land for his veterans, confirmation of his Asian political settlements and a new wife. She was Caesar's daughter, Julia; Pompey was said to be besotted by her. In the same year, Clodius renounced his patrician status, was adopted into a plebian ''gens'' and was elected a Tribune of the plebs. At the end of his consulship, Caesar secured proconsular command in Gaul. Pompey was given the governorship of Hispania Ulterior, but remained in Rome to oversee the grain supply as ''curator annonae''.

Despite his preoccupation with his new wife, Pompey handled the grain issue well. His political acumen was less sure. When Clodius turned on him in turn, Pompey defended himself by supporting Cicero's recall from exile (57 BC). Once back in Rome, Cicero stepped back into his role as Pompey's defender and Clodius' antagonist, but Pompey himself retreated to his lovely young wife and his theatre plans; such behaviour was not expected of the once dazzling young general. Pompey's new theatre was inaugurated in the same year. It was Rome's first permanent theatre, a gigantic, architecturally daring, self-contained complex on the Campus Martius, complete with shops, multi-service buildings, gardens and a temple to Venus Victrix. The latter connected its donor to Aeneas, a son of Venus and ancestor of Rome itself. In its portico, the statuary, paintings and personal wealth of foreign kings could be admired at leisure. Pompey's triumph lived on. His theatre made an ideal meetingplace for his supporters.

From confrontation to war

In 54 BC, Julia, Caesar's only child and Pompey's wife, died in childbirth along with her baby. Pompey and Caesar shared their grief and condolences, but Julia's death broke their family bonds. The following year, Crassus, his son Publius and most of his army were annihilated by the Parthians at Carrhae. Caesar, not Pompey, was now Rome's great new general and the fragile balance of power between them was under threat. Public anxiety spilled over: rumours circulated that Pompey would be offered dictatorship for the sake of law and order.

Caesar sought a second matrimonial alliance with Pompey, offering his grandniece Octavia (the sister of the future emperor Augustus). This time, though, Pompey refused. In 52 BC, he married Cornelia Metella, the very young widow of Crassus's son Publius, and the daughter of Caecilius Metellus Scipio, one of Caesar’s greatest enemies. Pompey was drifting back toward the ''optimates''. It can be presumed that they thought him the lesser of two evils.

In the same year, Publius Clodius was murdered. When his supporters burned down the Senate House in retaliation, the Senate appealed to Pompey. He reacted with ruthless efficiency. Cicero, defending the accused murderer Titus Annius Milo, was so shaken by a Forum seething with armed soldiers, he was unable to complete his defense.

Once order was restored, the Senate and Cato avoided granting Pompey dictatorship – it recalled Sulla and his bloody proscriptions. Instead they made him sole Consul; this gave him sweeping, but limited, powers. A Dictator could not be lawfully punished for measures taken during his office. As sole Consul, Pompey would be answerable for his actions once out of office.

While Caesar was fighting against Vercingetorix in Gaul, Pompey proceeded with a legislative agenda for Rome. Its details suggested covert alliance with Caesar's enemies: among his various legal and military reforms was a law allowing retrospective prosecution for electoral bribery. Caesar's allies correctly interpreted this as a threat to Caesar once his ''imperium'' ended. Pompey also prohibited Caesar from standing for the consulship ''in absentia'', though this had been permitted under past laws.

This seemed to put paid to Caesar's plans after his term in Gaul expired. Finally, in 51 BC, Pompey was more forthright; Caesar would not be permitted to stand for Consul unless he relinquished his armies. This would, of course, leave Caesar defenseless before his enemies. As Cicero sadly noted, Pompey had been diminished by age, uncertainty, his fear of Caesar and the strain of being the chosen tool of a quarreling oligarchy of ''optimates''. The coming conflict seemed inevitable.

Civil war and assassination

In the beginning, Pompey claimed he could defeat Caesar and raise armies merely by stamping his foot on the soil of Italy, but by the spring of 49 BC, with Caesar crossing the Rubicon and his invading legions sweeping down the peninsula, Pompey ordered the abandonment of Rome. His legions retreated south towards Brundisium, where Pompey intended to find renewed strength by waging war against Caesar in the east. In the process, neither Pompey nor the Senate thought of taking the vast treasury with them, probably thinking Caesar would not dare take it for himself. It was left conveniently in the Temple of Saturn when Caesar and his forces entered Rome.

Barely eluding Caesar in Brundisium, Pompey crossed over into Epirus, where, during Caesar's Spanish campaign, Pompey had gathered a large force in Macedonia, comprising nine legions reinforced by contingents from the Roman allies in the east. His fleet, recruited from the maritime cities in the east, controlled the Adriatic. Nevertheless, Caesar managed to cross over into Epirus in November 49 BC, and proceeded to capture Apollonia.

Plutarch has him meet his fate with great dignity, one day after his 59th birthday. His body remained on the shoreline, to be cremated by his loyal freeman Philip on the rotten planks of a fishing boat. His head and seal were presented to Caesar, who, according to Plutarch, mourned this insult to the greatness of his former ally and son-in-law, and punished his assassins and their Egyptian coconspirators, putting both Achillas and Pothinus to death. Pompey's ashes were eventually returned to Cornelia, who carried them to his country house near Alba.

Cassius Dio describes Caesar's reactions with scepticism, and considers Pompey's own political misjudgements, rather than treachery, as instrumental in his downfall. In Appian's account of the civil war, Caesar has Pompey's severed head interred in Alexandria, in ground reserved for a new temple to the goddess Nemesis, whose divine functions included the punishment of hubris. For Pliny, the humiliation of Pompey's end is anticipated by the vaunting pride of his oversized portrait-head, studded entirely with pearls, and carried in procession during his greatest Triumph.

Later portrayals and reputation

To the historians of his own and later Roman periods, Pompey fulfilled the trope of the great man who achieved extraordinary triumphs through his own efforts, yet fell from power and was, in the end, murdered through treachery.

He was a hero of the Republic, who seemed once to hold the Roman world in his palm, only to be brought low by his own poor judgment and Caesar. Pompey was idealized as a tragic hero almost immediately after Pharsalus and his murder. Plutarch portrayed him as a Roman Alexander the Great, pure of heart and mind, destroyed by the cynical ambitions of those around him. This portrayal of him survived into the Renaissance and Baroque periods, for example in Corneille's play ''The Death of Pompey'' (1642).

Pompey has appeared as a character in several modern novels, plays, motion pictures, and other media. A theatrical portrayal was John Masefield's play ''The Tragedy of Pompey the Great'' (1910). Chris Noth portrays Pompey in the 2002 miniseries ''Julius Caesar''. He appears as a major character in the first season of the HBO series ''Rome'', in which he is portrayed by Kenneth Cranham. In television series ''Xena Warrior Princess'', he is portrayed by the actor Jeremy Callaghan.

Marriages and offspring

First wife, Antistia

Second wife, Aemilia Scaura (Sulla's stepdaughter)

Third wife, Mucia Tertia (whom he divorced for adultery, according to Cicero's letters)

* Gnaeus Pompeius, executed in 45 BC, after the Battle of Munda

* Pompeia Magna, married to Faustus Cornelius Sulla; ancestor of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Claudia Antonia's first husband)

* Sextus Pompey, who would rebel in Sicily against Augustus

Fourth wife Julia (daughter of Caesar)

Fifth wife, Cornelia Metella (daughter of Metellus Scipio)

Chronology of Pompey's life and career

106 BC September 29– Born in Picenum

83 BC– Aligns with Sulla, after his return from the Mithridatic War against King Mithridates IV of Pontus; Marriage to Aemilia Scaura

82–81 BC– Defeats Gaius Marius's allies in Sicily and Africa

81 BC– Returns to Rome and celebrates First triumph

76–71 BC– Campaign in Hispania against Sertorius

71 BC– Returns to Italy and participates in the suppression of a slave rebellion led by Spartacus; Second triumph

70 BC– First consulship (with M. Licinius Crassus)

67 BC– Defeats the pirates and goes to Asia province

66–61 BC– Defeats King Mithridates of Pontus; end of the Third Mithridatic War

64–63 BC– Pompey's March through Syria, the Levant, and Judea

61 BC September 29– Third triumph

59 BC April– The first triumvirate is constituted; Pompey allies to Julius Caesar and Licinius Crassus; marriage to Julia (daughter of Julius Caesar)

58–55 BC– Governs Hispania Ulterior by proxy, construction of Pompey's Theater

55 BC– Second consulship (with M. Licinius Crassus), Dedication of the Theatre of Pompey

54 BC– Julia, dies; the first triumvirate ends

52 BC– Serves as sole consul for intercalary month, third ordinary consulship with Metellus Scipio for the rest of the year; marriage to Cornelia Metella

51 BC– Forbids Caesar (in Gaul) to stand for consulship in absentia

50 BC– Falls dangerously ill with fever in Campania, but is saved 'by public prayers'

49 BC– Caesar crosses the Rubicon River and invades Italy; Pompey retreats to Greece with the conservatives

48 BC– Caesar defeats Pompey's army near Pharsalus, Greece. Pompey retreats to Egypt and is killed there.

Notes

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External links

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Christopher Jack "Chris" Maguire (born 16 January 1989 in Bellshill, Scotland) is a Scottish professional footballer who currently plays for English Championship side Derby County.

Club career

Aberdeen

Maguire made his debut for Aberdeen on 7 May 2006, coming on as a substitute in their final match of the 2005–06 season, where he set up John Stewart for the equaliser in a 2–2 draw against SPL champions Celtic, his lifelong heroes. His first starting appearance in the senior team was on 26 December against Kilmarnock, where he also scored his first senior goal in the sixth minute.

The following season, Maguire scored some vital goals, including a 94th-minute winner in a thrilling 4–3 match against Inverness CT on 29 March 2008 and a brace in the 2–1 win over Falkirk five days later. On 16 July 2008, Maguire signed a three-year contract extension with the Dons which keeps him at Pittodrie until the summer of 2011.

In February 2009, having been regularly kept out of the starting eleven by first-choice striking pair Darren Mackie and Lee Miller, Maguire requested to go out on loan in search of regular first team football. After this request was promptly turned down, Maguire scored two goals in Aberdeen's 5–0 Scottish Cup victory over East Fife.

Kilmarnock (loan)

During the January transfer window in 2010, Maguire moved on loan to Kilmarnock, reuniting him with former Aberdeen boss Jimmy Calderwood. On his debut against Celtic, he scored the only goal of the game to gave Kilmarnock their first league win in eight games. He scored 4 goals in 14 games to help Kilmarnock stay in the Scottish Premier League.

Derby County

On 1 July 2011, it was announced Maguire would sign for English Championship side Derby County on the expiration of his Aberdeen contract, having agreed a three year deal with Derby. The transfer was formally completed on 29 June when Derby agreed a compensation package with Aberdeen, speculated to be in the region of £400,000. Maguire's first start, and first goal, came on 29 October, in a 3-1 win over Portsmouth. He was subsequently praised for his patience and work ethic by first-team coach Andy Garner, having been kept out of the team by the form of fellow strikers Jamie Ward, Theo Robinson and Steve Davies. After being kept out of the first team by strikers Theo Robinson, Steve Davies, Jamie Ward and the emergence of Callum Ball and to a lesser extent Mason Bennett, Maguire started proving himself week in week out in the reserves scoring goal after goal which was shown with a hat-trick against Pinxton in a 4-0 win during the Quarterfinal of the Derbyshire Senior Cup.

Portsmouth (loan)

On 9 March 2012, Maguire joined Championship strugglers Portsmouth on a month-long emergency loan. He wore the number 22 shirt during his time at Fratton Park. Maguire scored his first Portsmouth goal in his side's 4-1 victory over Birmingham City at Fratton Park on 20 March 2012. Maguire recived praise from Portsmouth manager Michael Appleton for his role in a 2–0 win against Hull City on 27 March 2012 and hoped for a extension to his loan. After one month at ''Pompey'', the club extended Maguire's loan until the end of the season. Maguire impressed for Portsmouth where he scored 3 goals in 11 apperances, and picked up the clubs Player of the Month award in the game against parent club Derby County (a game which Maguire was ineligible to play in) on 21 April 2012, a game which saw Portsmouth relegated in a 2–1 defeat.

International career

Maguire was a regular member of the Scottish under-21 team. He scored a goal from the halfway line immediately after the restart in the qualifying match for Euro 2011 against Iceland.

In February 2011, Maguire won his first cap for Scotland in a 3-0 win over Northern Ireland in the 2011 Nations Cup in Dublin.

Personal life

In April 2008, Maguire appeared on ''Soccer AM'''s Skills School, where two players are picked to demonstrate a variety of skills as they battle against each other in front of their team-mates. Maguire was chosen as the winner over Callum McRobbie. Aberdeen fans call him 'Bebo' after his profile on the social networking site of the same name was allegedly hacked into. In February 2007, Maguire's profile was seen to leave abusive comments on a friend's page about Rangers players, Barry Ferguson and Alan Hutton.

References

External links

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name	Erik Huseklepp
fullname	Erik André Huseklepp
birth date	September 05, 1984
birth place	Bærum, Norway
height
position	Striker / Winger
currentclub	Birmingham City(on loan from Portsmouth)
clubnumber	10
youthyears1	– | youthclubs1 IL Bjarg
youthyears2	–2000 | youthclubs2 Fyllingen
youthyears3	2000–2004 | youthclubs3 Vadmyra IL
years1	2004–2005 | clubs1 Fyllingen | caps1 42 | goals1 9
years2	2005–2011 | clubs2 Brann | caps2 118 | goals2 29
years3	2011 | clubs3 Bari | caps3 14 | goals3 2
years4	2011– | clubs4 Portsmouth | caps4 27 | goals4 6
years5	2012– | clubs5 → Birmingham City (loan) | caps5 11 | goals5 2
nationalyears1	2005–2006 | nationalteam1 Norway U21 | nationalcaps1 8 | nationalgoals1 1
nationalyears2	2008– | nationalteam2 Norway | nationalcaps2 27 | nationalgoals2 7
club-update	08:35, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
nationalteam-update	1 March 2012 }}

Erik André Huseklepp (born 5 September 1984) is a Norwegian footballer who plays for Birmingham City (on loan from Portsmouth) and the Norwegian national team. A forward, he previously played for Fyllingen and Brann in Norway and for Bari in Italy.

Career

Early career

At the age of 16 he played youth football for Fyllingen. After two seasons in Vadmyra, where he played both junior and senior football, he returned to Fyllingen, this time in the senior team.

Brann

Huseklepp played in the Norwegian Second Division in 2004 and the first half of 2005, but left on 10 August to sign for Brann, because he was not given a place in the junior squad. He scored nineteen seconds into his first league match as a starter, and subsequently became a first team regular.

In 2006, Huseklepp had a hard time making the first team, starting just six games in the Norwegian Premier League and being substituted in all of them. The 2007 season was much the same, with Brann coach Mons Ivar Mjelde preferring to use Huseklepp as an impact player, taking on tiring defenders in the closing stages of the game. Huseklepp signalled that he would not sign a new contract with Brann, and as he has made himself a name as a flamboyant and technically gifted winger, a number of clubs were interested in signing the player. However, in November 2007, Huseklepp signed a new three year contract with Brann. The team became league champions that year.

Bari

In January 2011 he completed a move to Serie A club Bari for €1.75 million. He played 14 games and scored 2 goals for Bari. But Bari were relegated to Serie B and due to financial difficulty Bari were forced to put Huseklepp up for sale.

Portsmouth

On 16 August 2011, Huseklepp signed for Football League Championship (second-tier) club Portsmouth after a six month long stay at Bari, with a £1.5 million fee, in a three-year deal. He made his debut in a 0-0 draw with Bristol City, replacing Liam Lawrence in the 87th minute. He scored his first goal against Blackpool on 24 September with a stoppage-time winner. Three days later he scored a last minute own goal against Peterborough to make Portsmouth lose 3-2 at home. He then scored two goals against Nottingham Forest in a 3-0 win on 5 November. On 28 January 2012, Huseklepp scored two goals in a 0-3 victory against Peterborough.

Birmingham City

With Portsmouth in administration, the club informed Huseklepp that they needed him to accept a loan move to Championship rivals Birmingham City in order to help relieve their financial difficulties. Although reluctant to leave Portsmouth, where he had established a good relationship with the fans, he complied with the request, and joined Birmingham on 23 February 2012 on loan until the end of the season. He made his debut for the club a couple of days later in a 2–1 defeat at home to Nottingham Forest.

International career

On 12 August 2009, he scored his first international goal in the 60th minute of the 4–0 victory over Scotland, after strike partner John Carew had hit both posts. He was awarded Man of the Match by the viewers in his international debut which he played from the start. Huseklepp was the first player hailing from Bergen since 1963 to score for the national team. He scored the winning goal against Portugal during the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying in a 1-0 win. As of February 2012, he has been capped 27 times for Norway, scoring seven goals.

International goals

''Results list Norway's goal tally first'' Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo rowspan=2 7 September 2010 17 November 2010 26 March 2011 12 November 2011

Goal !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition
1.	12 August 2009	|		3 – 0	4 – 0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 9>World Cup 2010 qualifying
2.	11 August 2010 ||	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo		1 – 1	2 – 1	rowspan=2
3.	2 – 1
4.	|	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo		1 – 0	1 – 0	UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
5.	|	Aviva Stadium, Dublin		2 – 1	2 – 1	Exhibition game>Friendly
6.	|	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo		1 – 1	1 – 1	UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
7.	|	Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff		1 – 2	1 – 4	Exhibition game>Friendly

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Career statistics

8 1 1 0 1 2 15 10 2 6 2

Club	Season	Division	League	Cup	Europe	Total
!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals
rowspan="3" valign="center"	Fyllingen		rowspan="2" valign="center"	25	|	0	0	—		25	8
2005 in Norwegian football	2005	17	|	0	0	—		17	1
Total	—!!42!!9
rowspan="7" valign="center"	Brann			9	|	0	0	2	0	11	1
2006 in Norwegian football	2006	11	|	4	1	3	0	18	1
2007 in Norwegian football	2007	22	|	4	1	12	1	38	3
2008 in Norwegian football	2008	18	|	4	0	6	0	28	2
2009 in Norwegian football	2009	30	|	2	0	0	0	32	15
2010 in Norwegian football	2010	28	|	1	0	0	0	29	10
Total	!118!!29!!15!!2!!23!!1!!156!!32
rowspan="2" valign="center"	Bari			14	|	0	0	0	0	14	2
Total	!14!!2!!0!!0!!0!!0!!14!!2
rowspan="2" valign="center"	Portsmouth		rowspan="1" valign="center"	27	|	1	0	0	0	28	6
Total	!27!!6!!1!!0!!0!!0!!28!!6
rowspan="2" valign="center"	Birmingham City		rowspan="1" valign="center"	11	|	0	0	0	0	11	2
Total	!11!!2!!0!!0!!0!!0!!11!!2
Career total	!212!!48!!16!!2!!23!!1!!251!!51

Honours

;Brann

Tippeligaen: 1

:: 2007

References

Category:Norwegian footballers Category:Norway international footballers Category:Norwegian expatriate footballers Category:Fyllingen Fotball players Category:SK Brann players Category:A.S. Bari players Category:Portsmouth F.C. players Category:Birmingham City F.C. players Category:People from Bergen Category:1984 births Category:Living people Category:Norwegian Premier League players Category:Serie A footballers Category:The Football League players Category:Expatriate footballers in Italy

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