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He is now the last member of the Hawks’ new team to resume preseason education on Tuesday before this weekend’s opening friendly against AFC Totton.
Clifford hopes to earn the name of the National League South for the consecutive season moment after completing his season at Wealdstone with a championship medal.
He also named the department’s seasonal team along with Hawks duo Sam Magri and Jonah Ayunga.
Clifford gave Chief Paul Doswell the midfield option alongside Wes Fogden, Josh Taylor, Bedsente Gomis and Godfrey Poku.
Clifford, now 27, joined Chelsea’s youth team when he was only 8.
He then signed his first contract with Chelsea in 2010, the year he helped the Blues lift the FA Youth Cup.
He as a side before being traded to an offensive midfielder.
Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti kicked off the 17-year-old a pre-season friendly opposed to Ajax in Amsterdam the same summer.
In fact, it was a series of Blues XI moments, with teenagers such as Ryan Bertrand, Daniel Sturridge and goalkeeper Ryan Turnbull along with more experienced Jon Obi Mikel and Michael Essien.
Clifford, who still looked great in his youth team days at Stamford Bridge, has amassed a hundred Blues appearances in the combined U18 and U21 categories and won a Premier League U-21 winner’s medal in 2010/11.
In the summer of 2011, he played for Chelsea in a pre-season friendly at Fratton Park, alongside Fernando Torres, Ashley Cole, Florent Malouda and Branislav Ivanovic.
Clifford made his ligue 1 debut on loan in January 2013, completing the season with 18 league games.
Clifford started the following season on loan at Yeovil Town, but only made one League Cup appearance.The following January he was loaned to Royal Antwerp, then controlled by former Chelsea striker Jimmy Floyd-Hasselbaink.
In the summer of 2014, he agreed to be released from his contract with the Blues a year earlier, making a first-team appearance at Stamford Bridge, and signed for the Walsall League One club.
He made thirteen league outings, but it seemed after the end of November and left in early 2015 after his six-month contract expired.
Prior to the 2015/16 season, Clifford entered the non-championship to point newcomer Boreham Wood to the National League.
He played 21 league games, seven of them on the bench, but that was enough to win him a contract at Crawley Town’s Ligue 2 club, led at the time by his former Chelsea lead, Dermot Drummy.
He was a regular player at the Sussex club in 2016/17, making 26 runs in the EFL and 10 more as a submarine.
The following season, he made seven league appearances, the last of which took place on Boxing Day 2017.
After his release, he returned to Boreham Wood but signed through Hemel Hempstead’s boss Dean Brennan after only a few weeks into the new season.
When Brennan left to replace Billerica and a few months later, Clifford was one of his first recruits, but in February 2019, after Brennan left for Kingstonian, the player joined local club Slough Town as a loan.
For the third time in less than a year, Brennan signed the player in the summer of 2019 after succeeding Wealdstone.
He scored seven league and cup goals for the Stones when they won the Southern National League title.
The Hawks now have their sixth club since the start of 2018/19 and the player and club expect their stay there to be longer than in the last five.
Clifford is the Hawks’ fifth signing of the season after strikers Tommy Wright and Joe Iaciofano, middle center Moussa Diarra and Poku.