Scott Kashket

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Scott Kashket
Personal information
Full name Scott Connor Kashket[1]
Date of birth (1996-02-25) 25 February 1996 (age 25)[2]
Place of birth Chigwell, England
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[3]
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Crewe Alexandra
Youth career
Buckhurst Hill
2012 Hércules
2013 Wingate & Finchley
2013–2014 Leyton Orient
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2016 Leyton Orient 16 (1)
2016 → Welling United (loan) 7 (0)
2016–2021 Wycombe Wanderers 105 (22)
2021– Crewe Alexandra 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:40, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Scott Connor Kashket (born 25 February 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for League One club Crewe Alexandra. He has also played in his youth career for Spanish B side club Hércules, Wingate & Finchley, and Leyton Orient, and in his senior career for League Two Leyton Orient, National League South Welling United (on loan) and Wycombe Wanderers.

Early life[]

Kashket was born in Chigwell, Essex, in England and is Jewish.[4][5] His father Russell Kashket, and grandfather Bernard Kashket, are tailors of note to the royals who run Kashket & Partners in the UK, a company that traces its history back to being hatters at the court of the Russian Tsar in the early 1900s.[6][7][8]

Career[]

Early career[]

Kashket began his career playing futsal for Maccabi GB in the English National Futsal League.[9][10][11] He played for the Team Maccabi Great Britain junior futsal team at the European Maccabiah Games in Vienna in 2009, winning a bronze medal.[12][13][14]

He was spotted and signed at age 16 by Spanish B side club Hércules,[citation needed] following a spell with Buckhurst Hill,[15] He played for their 16–19 and 18–21 age group football teams in late 2012.[16][14] At the same time, Kashket did his GCSEs.[14]

Kashket returned to the UK, and played for the Wingate & Finchley U21 team.[17] He scored three goals in two matches during October 2013.[18][19]

He played for Team GB Under-18 at the 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel, winning a bronze medal.[20][13][17][21]

In November 2013, Kashket had a trial with Maccabi Tel Aviv. However, he suffered an ankle ligaments injury on his first day with the club.[22][14]

Leyton Orient[]

By this time Kashket was training and playing with Leyton Orient's youth team.[17] After impressing in the Orient youth team, Kashket at 17 years old signed a two-year professional contract with the club in the summer of 2014, while still featuring for the youth team.[12] He scored a penalty in Orient's 3–2 friendly win at Dartford on 18 July,[23] and came on as a substitute in the 1–0 friendly win at Northampton Town on 26 July,[24] and the 2–2 draw with Queens Park Rangers on 29 July.[25]

Kashket was an unused substitute for Orient in several matches in the early part of the 2014–15 season, and made his professional debut as a late substitute for Jay Simpson in the 2–0 league defeat at home to Preston North End on 29 October, which was manager Mauro Milanese's first match in charge of the club.[26] On 11 November, he was brought on as a substitute (again for Simpson) early in the second half in Orient's 2–0 Football League Trophy southern section quarter-final win against Northampton Town.[27]

Kashket made his first start for Orient on 11 August 2015, playing the full 90 minutes of the 2–1 League Cup defeat at MK Dons.[28] He scored his first senior goal in the 2–2 draw at home to Oxford United on 17 October, coming on as a substitute for John Marquis and grabbing a last-minute equaliser.[29] He was told chairman Francesco Becchetti had blocked him from playing.[7] Kashket said: "He wouldn't even give me reasons why, he wouldn't even let me train. I just wanted to get out of there and make a fresh start as soon as possible."[7][30][31]

On 4 March 2016, he moved to National League South Welling United on a one-month loan.[32] On 31 August 2016 Kashket was released from Leyton Orient, for which he had made 22 appearances and scored once.[33][34]

Wycombe Wanderers[]

The same day that Kashket was released, Wycombe Wanderers signed Kashket to a four-month deal, when he was 20 years old.[35][36][37] He scored his first goals for Wycombe when he scored twice in a 5–1 win over Crewe Alexandra on 27 September 2016.[38] Wycombe manager Gareth Ainsworth said, "We gave Scott the opportunity to prove himself ... and to say he exceeded expectations is an understatement."[39] He won the Sky Bet League Two Player of the Month Award for December 2016.[40]

In December 2016, after he had scored nine goals in nine games, the team signed Kashket to a new contract, until 2019.[14][41] He suffered an injury, and missed the majority of the final third of the season in 2016.[31] In the 2016-17 season, he made 21 appearances and had ten goals, a ratio of one every 117 minutes.[33]

Kashket signed a new three-year contract with Wycombe in May 2019, until 2022; at the time that he signed the new contract, in his career with the team he had scored 23 times in 73 appearances.[42][43][44] Coach Ainsworth said: "Scotty’s got that fantastic ability of being able to change a game in an instant and he’s the type of player that fans love to watch, so I’m thrilled to keep him here for another three years. He’s still only 23 and I strongly believe he could go a long way in the game ...."[44]

On 30 August 2021, Kashket left the club by mutual consent in order to allow for him to sign with a new club ahead of the deadline the following day.[45]

Crewe Alexandra[]

On 30 August 2021, having left Wycombe earlier in the day, Kashket was announced to have joined League One side Crewe Alexandra on a one-year deal.[46]

Career statistics[]

As of 25 March 2021
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Leyton Orient 2014–15[47] League One 1 0 0 0 0 0 2[a] 0 3 0
2015–16[48] League Two 15 1 2 0 1 0 1[a] 0 19 1
Total 16 1 2 0 1 0 3 0 22 1
Welling United (loan) 2015–16[49] National League 7 0 — — — 7 0
Wycombe Wanderers 2016–17[50] League Two 21 10 3 3 0 0 5[b] 3 29 16
2017–18[51] League Two 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 1
2018–19[52] League One 27 3 1 0 3 1 3[b] 2 34 6
2019–20[53] League One 19 4 1 0 1 0 4[c] 0 25 4
2020–21[54] Championship 29 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 31 4
Total 105 22 7 3 5 1 12 5 129 31
Career total 128 23 9 3 6 1 15 5 158 32
  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Appearance(s) in Football League Trophy
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Appearances in EFL Trophy
  3. ^ Three appearances in FA Trophy and one appearance in the EFL League One play-offs

Honours[]

Wycombe Wanderers

Individual

  • Jewish News Jewish Sports Star: 2016[56]
  • Buckhurst Hill Football Club Hall of Fame[15]

See also[]

  • List of select Jewish football (association; soccer) players

References[]

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  15. ^ Jump up to: a b "Hall of Fame". Buckhurst Hill Football Club | Essex. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
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  33. ^ Jump up to: a b White, Ryan (9 May 2017). "The 21-year-old that Queens Park Rangers must sign if they want to push up the table". Football League World.
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