Ben Woodburn
Ben Woodburn | ||
Personnel | ||
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Surname | Benjamin Woodburn | |
birthday | October 15, 1999 | |
place of birth | Nottingham , England | |
position | Left winger | |
Juniors | ||
Years | station | |
2007-2018 | Liverpool FC | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
2016-2019 | Liverpool FC U21 / U23 | 31 (12) |
2016– | Liverpool FC | 6 | (0)
2018-2019 | → Sheffield United (loan) | 7 | (0)
2019-2020 | → Oxford United (loan) | 11 | (1)
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
2014 | Wales U15 | |
2015 | Wales U16 | |
2014-2016 | Wales U17 | |
2016– | Wales U19 | 4 | (2)
2017– | Wales | 9 | (1)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 26, 2019 2 As of January 26, 2019 |
Benjamin "Ben" Woodburn (born October 15, 1999 in Nottingham , England ) is a Welsh football player . He plays for the Welsh national team and is under contract with Liverpool FC in the Premier League . He plays as a winger .
Career
society
Woodburn, whose maternal grandfather is from Wales, was born in Nottingham and grew up in Tattenhall near Chester .
He was trained in the youth of Liverpool FC . He has been playing for its professional team since November 2016. With his first competitive goal on November 29, 2016, Woodburn became Liverpool FC's youngest goalscorer to date, ahead of Michael Owen . From August 2018 to January 2019 he was loaned out to Sheffield United . In the 2019/20 season he was on loan to Oxford United .
National team
Because of his Welsh grandfather, Woodburn had the choice between the Welsh and the English national teams. He was part of the squad of the Welsh U15, U16, U17 and U19 national team. In October 2017, he played for the Welsh national team for the first time in the World Cup qualifier against Austria in Cardiff and scored the 1-0 winner. This makes him the second youngest scorer in the Welsh senior team.
Web links
- Ben Woodburn in the database of weltfussball.de
- Ben Woodburn in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Ben Woodburn in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Profile on Liverpool FC website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b What makes English-born Ben Woodburn Welsh? The Liverpool FC star's complicated situation fully explained on walesonline.co.uk on November 30, 2016, accessed February 20, 2019
- ↑ Ben Woodburn: Who is Liverpool's teenage record-breaker? , bbc.com of November 30, 2016, accessed February 20, 2019
- ↑ Oxford United loan Liverpool Woodburn - Whyte moves to Cardiff. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Woodburn, Ben |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Woodburn, Benjamin (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | welsh football player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1999 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nottingham , England |