Daniel Williams (soccer player)

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Daniel Williams
Personnel
birthday March 8, 1989
place of birth Karlsruhe ,  Germany
size 182 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1992-2004 Karlsruher SC
2004-2008 Sc freiburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008-2011 SC Freiburg II 60 0(4)
2010-2011 Sc freiburg 14 0(0)
2011-2013 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 45 0(1)
2013-2017 Reading FC 135 (13)
2017-2019 Huddersfield Town 25 0(0)
2019– Paphos FC 2 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
Germany U-15 3 0(0)
2011– United States 23 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of September 30, 2019

2 As of March 10, 2018

Daniel "Danny" Williams (born March 8, 1989 in Karlsruhe ) is a German - American football player who is under contract with the Cypriot first division club Paphos FC . Williams is also a US national team player .

Career

In the club

Williams grew up in the Karlsruhe district of Hagsfeld and played at the age of three for the Bambini of Karlsruher SC . Later he moved to the soccer school of SC Freiburg , with whose A-Juniors he won the German A-Juniors Championship with a 2-0 win over VfL Wolfsburg . In the summer of the same year he moved to the regional league reserve of SC Freiburg. The two-footed defensive midfielder was also used at SC on the right side of defense and in central defense. In the Regionalliga Süd he was used 60 times for the second team of the sports club and scored four goals. Williams made his Bundesliga debut on January 22nd, 2010 (19th matchday) in a 0-1 defeat at home against VfB Stuttgart .

During the summer break of 2011, he moved to league rivals TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . In the summer of 2013 Williams left TSG and moved to Reading FC in the English second division . When he was relegated to the Premier League, he signed a four-year contract. On July 4, 2017, he signed a two-year contract with the Premier League promoted Huddersfield Town .

At the beginning of September 2019 he joined the Cypriot club Paphos FC .

National team

Williams completed his only international appearances for Germany for the U-15 national team . The US national coach Jürgen Klinsmann called Daniel Williams on September 29, 2011 for two international matches against the selection of Honduras and Ecuador for the first time in the squad of the US national team . On October 8, 2011 Williams made his debut in Miami against Honduras for the Soccer Boys . He scored his first international goal on June 5, 2015 in a friendly against the Netherlands .

Others

Williams is the son of an American and a German . The parents married when the African-American father was stationed in the US Army in Heidelberg . Williams is entitled to both nationalities, but had only one German passport until September 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel Williams: Not without my mother ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , http://fudder.de/ from March 19, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fudder.de
  2. ↑ A-Juniors of SC Freiburg win the championship
  3. ^ Daniel Williams is moving from Freiburg to Hoffenheim , accessed on August 31, 2011
  4. ↑ www.achtzehn99.de: Strobl extended until 2016 - Williams to FC Reading , accessed on June 25, 2013
  5. ↑ Message on the Paphos FC website, accessed on September 30, 2019 (Greek, English)
  6. ↑ a b c Brian Sciaretta: Williams emerging at SC Freiburg . In: Yanks-Abroad.com , February 10, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2010. 
  7. ↑ Klinsmann Calls 22 Players for October Friendlies against Honduras and Ecuador ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , US Football Association September 29, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  8. ↑ US MNT Wins 1-0 against Honduras in Miami ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , US Football Association October 8, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  9. ↑ United States win in Netherlands after two late goals ( English ) BBC Sport. June 6, 2015. Accessed June 11, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Danny (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe , Germany