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Wes Morgan Westley Nathan Morgan ( born 21 January 1984 ) is a Jamaican former professional footballer who played as a defender . Morgan spent the first ten years of his career with his boyhood club , Nottingham Forest , playing 402 matches and scoring 14 goals . He was their longest-serving player when he transferred to Leicester City in January 2012 . Morgan became Leicesters captain later that year , and has gone on to play over 300 matches in all competitions for them , captaining them to the Championship title in 2014 and their first Premier League title two years later . He was the first Jamaican player to score in a UEFA Champions League game . Born and raised in England , Morgan chose to represent his ancestral Jamaica at international level , making his debut for them in 2013 . He was part of their teams that competed in two Copa América tournaments and finished runners-up at the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup . Club career . Nottingham Forest . Early years . Morgan was born in Nottingham , Nottinghamshire . Having been rejected by Nottingham Forests near neighbours Notts County at the age of 15 , he went to study business at South Notts College while playing semi-professionally in central midfield for Dunkirk in the Midland Football Alliance . His performances were tracked by non-League teams and Forest , who took him as an apprentice while he continued studying . There was no transfer fee , but Dunkirk received two Forest kits . Their clubhouse has his Forest and Leicester shirts on the wall . In February 2003 , with manager Paul Hart considering him close to a first-team breakthrough after his reserve performances , Morgan was loaned to Kidderminster Harriers of the Third Division . He made his professional debut on 1 March , playing the full 90 minutes of a 3-1 loss to Scunthorpe United at Aggborough , deflecting a 25-yard Peter Beagrie shot for the first goal . Morgan totalled five appearances for the Worcestershire side , scoring his first goal two weeks after his debut , heading to confirm a 2–0 victory at Cambridge United . Hart wanted Morgan to lose weight before joining the first team , which became a priority as the team had lost several players after losing in the last seasons play-offs . He made his debut at left-back on 12 August 2003 away to Port Vale at the age of 19 ; after a goalless draw , Forest won a penalty shoot-out to advance to the second round of the League Cup . Four days later he made his First Division debut in a 3–0 loss to Reading ; Hart considered him the man of the match . On 18 October , he scored his first goal for Forest , heading Eoin Jess cross to finish a 6–0 win over bottom team Wimbledon at the City Ground . He totalled 32 games across the season , also scoring an equaliser on 3 December in the home game against Ipswich Town , and was sent off twice over the campaign . First-team regular . In the 2007–08 campaign , Morgan missed only four games all season , as he helped Forest finish second in the league and gain promotion from League One to the Championship . His only goal of the season came in a 2–0 victory at Tranmere Rovers , while Forest kept a season-record 24 clean sheets . Morgan found it hard adapting to life back in the Championship during the first half of the 2008–09 season , with Forest languishing in the relegation zone by Christmas . Following the dismissal of Colin Calderwood on Boxing Day 2008 , and the arrival of Billy Davies soon after , Morgan and the Forest defence looked far more solid as the season progressed which eventually led to the Reds retaining their Championship status . At the end of the 2008–09 season he had made a total of 274 appearances in all competitions , including 255 starts . October 2011 saw Wes Morgan make his 400th appearance for Nottingham Forest against Hull City in a match in which he was also handed the captaincy . On 20 January 2012 , Nottingham Forest announced they rejected a bid for Morgan from local rivals Leicester City . Leicester City . On 30 January 2012 , Morgan joined East Midland rivals Leicester City for an undisclosed fee believed to be in the region of £1 million . As a result of his performances towards the end of the 2011–12 season , he was rewarded with the Leicester City captaincy ahead of the 2012–13 season . His impressive performances early on earned him a nomination for Championship Player of the Month for September . Leicester won the 2013–14 Championship , in which he missed only one game . Afterwards , the club used a clause in his would-be expired contract to keep him for another season ; he eventually signed a new three-year deal . In the Premier League for the 2014–15 season , Morgan scored his first goal of the season in a 4–3 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur on 21 March 2015 , and another in 3–0 win over Newcastle on the 5 May . On 19 April 2015 , Morgan was selected in the Football Manager Team of the Decade at the Football League Awards . Morgan kept his place for the 2015–16 season , playing in every minute of all 38 Premier League matches , one of only 4 players to achieve that accolade ( including teammate Kasper Schmeichel ) in that season . On 3 April 2016 , he scored the only goal against Southampton , despite feeling ill . On 1 May , he equalised with a header in a 1–1 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford , and the next day Leicester won the title , with Morgan becoming the first Jamaican to win a Premier League medal . After captaining Leicester City to the title , Morgan was included in the Premier League PFA Team of the Year , alongside teammates Jamie Vardy , NGolo Kanté and Riyad Mahrez . He also became the third outfield player in Premier League history to play every minute of a title-winning season after Gary Pallister in 1992–93 and John Terry in 2014–15 . Manager Claudio Ranieri said Wes Morgan is Baloo off The Jungle Book . He is a big gentle bear who looks after all the lads . He does not speak so much but when he does speak , everybody listens . He is the perfect captain . I never knew anything about him before I came here . But I watched all the matches , I watched how solid , strong and intelligent he was . On 25 February 2017 , reports emerged alleging that Morgan was among several teammates who met with chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha following their 2–1 Champions League defeat at Sevilla on 22 February , which led to Ranieri being sacked . On 14 March 2017 , he scored the first goal in Leicesters 2–0 win against Sevilla , contributing to a 3–2 aggregate score which allowed the club to qualify for the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League . This also made him the first Jamaican player to score in a Champions League game . Morgan later came on in the 82nd minute of the 2021 FA Cup Final to help Leicester win their first ever FA Cup . On 21 May 2021 , Leicester City announced that Morgan would retire at the end of the season . International career . On 1 September 2013 , Morgan was called up to the Jamaican squad for the first time . He made his debut in a 0–0 draw against Panama at the Estadio Rommel Fernández in Panama City on 7 September 2013 . Morgan captained the Reggae Boyz for the first time in the 3–1 defeat to Canada on 9 September 2014 . Morgan was part of the Jamaican squad invited to the 2015 Copa América in Chile . He played every minute of their campaign , in which they were eliminated in last place in their group . Weeks later , he was again in the team at the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States and Canada , helping them to their first final . Jamaica lost 3–1 to Mexico at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia . Honours . Nottingham Forest - Football League One runner-up : 2007–08 Leicester City - Premier League : 2015–16 - FA Cup : 2020–21 - Football League Championship : 2013–14 Jamaica - CONCACAF Gold Cup runner-up : 2015 Individual - PFA Team of the Year : 2010–11 Championship , 2012–13 Championship , 2013–14 Championship , 2015–16 Premier League - Football League Team of the Decade : 2005–2015 - Leicester City Player of the Season : 2012–13 - Leicester City Players Player of the Season : 2012–13 - CONCACAF Best XI : 2016 External links . - Wes Morgan profile at the Leicester City F.C . website