Adam Matthews

Adam Matthews
Personnel
Surname	Adam James Matthews
birthday	January 13, 1992
place of birth	Swansea ,  Wales
size	178 cm
position	Full-back
Juniors
Years	station
2000-2009	Cardiff City
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2011	Cardiff City	40 (1)
2011-2015	Celtic Glasgow	101 (4)
2015-2019	Sunderland AFC	58 (2)
2016	→  Bristol City  (loan)	9 (0)
2016-2017	→ Bristol City (loan)	12 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
	Wales U17	9 (0)
	Wales U-19	5 (1)
	Wales U-21	3 (0)
2011–	Wales	13 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: July 22, 2019 2 As of August 31, 2017

Adam James Matthews (born January 13, 1992 in Swansea ) is a Welsh football player .

Club career

Adam Matthews was born in Swansea, the second largest city in Wales, and attended Penyrheol Comprehensive School in Cardiff as a teenager . Matthews started playing football for Cardiff City at the age of 8 , previously playing rugby with the Swansea Ospreys . In Cardiff he went through the entire youth before in the season 2009/10 the Football League Championship his professional debut against Blackpool FC was. In the same season he was able to achieve the first professional goal of his career, in the 4-0 away win against Watford FC . At the end of the season Matthews made it to the playoffs with Cardiff , but lost there against Blackpool FC on penalties. In the following season he lost with his team against Reading and could not prevail again in the playoffs . In February 2011, the defender had already agreed on a contract with Celtic Glasgow from the Scottish Premier League for the new season. There he signed for four years and was supposed to replace Andreas Hinkel , whose contract had not been extended. Adam Matthews subsequently won the Scottish Championship four times in a row with Celtic, as well as the Cup and League Cup once . At the end of the 2014/15 season , the Welshman was sold to AFC Sunderland for a transfer fee of £ 2m .

National team

Matthews has played for Wales since the U-17. He made his debut for the A-Eleven of Wales at the 2011 Nations Cup in the 3-1 loss to Scotland after he came into the game for Neal Eardley .

successes

• Scottish Champion (4): 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015
• Scottish Cup (1): 2013
• Scottish League Cup (1): 2015

Web links

• Adam Matthews in the soccerbase.com database
• Adam Matthews on the Welsh national team
• Adam Matthews in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adam Matthews happy with his Cardiff City decision walesonline.co.uk
2. ↑ Blackpool 1-1 Cardiff bbc.co.uk
3. ^ Watford 0-4 Cardiff bbc.co.uk
4. ↑ Cardiff full-back Matthews signs pre-contract at Celtic bbc.co.uk
5. ^ Adam Matthews: Celtic accept Sunderland bid for right-back BBC Sport