David Edwards (soccer player, 1986)

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David Edwards
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David Edwards (2016)
Personnel
Surname David Alexander Edwards
birthday 3rd February 1986
place of birth Shrewsbury ,  England
size 183 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1996-2003 Shrewsbury Town
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2007 Shrewsbury Town 117 (12)
2007-2008 Luton Town 19 0(4)
2008-2017 Wolverhampton Wanderers 284 (41)
2017-2019 Reading FC 32 0(3)
2019– Shrewsbury Town 2 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Wales U17 5 0(0)
Wales U-19 4 0(1)
Wales U20 1 0(0)
2006-2008 Wales U-21 9 0(1)
2007-2017 Wales 43 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 1, 2019

David Alexander Edwards (born February 3, 1986 in Shrewsbury ) is a Welsh football player . In central midfield , the former Welsh international has been an integral part of his youth club Shrewsbury Town since January 2019 .

Athletic career

societies

Edwards was trained in football in his hometown at Shrewsbury Town and came on May 3, 2003 - a month after his 17th birthday - as a substitute against Scunthorpe United (1: 2) to his debut; the debut in the fourth-rate Football League Two was the last home game before relegation to the fifth-rate Football Conference . In the following season, the newcomer was largely disregarded, but came more and more often in the second half of the season, which ultimately made the return to the Football League possible. In the following three years to 2007 Edwards was a regular with the "Shrews".

Towards the end of the 2006/07 season, Edwards refused to renew the contract in Shrewsbury and rather toied with a transfer to Luton Town . On June 26, 2007 he signed a three-year contract with the "Hatters", but since Edwards was not yet 24 years old at the time, his old club insisted on a compensation payment that should cover the costs of his training. The amount due was ultimately determined by a neutral exchange, with both parties providing different information about the amount; Luton Town gave 250,000 pounds, which, according to Shrewsbury Town, only represented the basic payment, but could in principle increase by 150,000 pounds (depending on the number of stakes). In sporting terms, Edwards found no luck with the third division club. The financially tight club was in dire need of money and after only 19 league appearances Edwards left Luton Town for 675,000 pounds back in the direction of the second division Wolverhampton Wanderers . There he signed a contract on January 16, 2008, which he extended early in June 2009 until the end of the 2011/12 season.

Already on his first appearance for the "Wolves" Edwards contributed a goal to the 2-0 victory on January 18, 2008, with his "debut opponent" being Scunthorpe United again. The final breakthrough on the status of a "supplementary player" did not succeed, however, for which injuries were partly responsible towards the end of the 2008/09 season. In the 2008/09 promotion season , Edwards made 44 appearances, but this also includes 21 substitutions. At Karl Henry's side , coach Mick McCarthy mostly preferred the new signing David Jones in central midfield. In the 2011/12 season he rose again with the "Wolves" and in the following season even in the third division . The third division season 2013/14 they ended as champions, to which he contributed with nine goals in 30 games. In the 2014/15 season they just missed the promotion playoffs in seventh place. In the following season , as fourteenth, they had nothing to do with promotion or relegation.

National teams

Despite his affiliation to a fourth-rate club, he was able to establish himself permanently in the Welsh U-21 national team - Edwards' parents are of Welsh descent. His first game was against Cyprus on May 16, 2006 , after being nominated for a friendly against Northern Ireland just under three months earlier .

In September 2007 he was invited to the senior national team for the first time, but only sat on the bench in the Euro 2008 qualifier against Slovakia . His first international match was the European Championship qualifier against Ireland on November 17, 2007, in which he was substituted on in the 37th minute. In the next 27 games he made 21 appearances and was only absent twice in a row due to injury. During this time he also scored his first international goal on October 11, 2008 in a 2-0 win on the occasion of a qualifying game for the 2010 World Cup against Liechtenstein . On June 6, 2009 he scored the 1-0 winner in the World Cup qualification against Azerbaijan . After his 22nd game, he had to wait a year for his next international match due to a back injury. On November 12, 2011 he was substituted on against Norway in the 90th minute after a year. After three short appearances in the next four games, there was another break of two years this time, in which he only sat on the bench twice. On October 13, 2014 he was substituted on again for the last half hour of the European Championship qualifier against Cyprus . He was used in four other qualifying games, including on October 13 in the last game against Andorra after 22 minutes for the injured Hal Robson-Kanu , but had to make way for debutant Tom Lawrence in the second half .

He was included in the Wales squad for the 2016 European Football Championship in France . In the 2-1 opening win against Slovakia he was on the starting line-up, but was substituted after 69 minutes, in the second game against England he was only brought on in the 67th minute when the score was 1: 1 and had to with his team in stoppage time but still accept one goal. He was also a substitute in the third group game against Russia. The team reached the knockout games and made it to the semi-finals as a newcomer to the European Championship, but Edwards was no longer used in these games.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Luton, Shrews and Edwards dispute" (BBC Sport)
  2. ^ "Wolves complete Edwards transfer" (BBC Sport)
  3. ^ "Edwards Signs New Deal" ( Memento from September 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (wolves.co.uk)
  4. Jump up ↑ Wales 2-0 Andorra
  5. ↑ England vs. Wales 2-1
personal data
SURNAME Edwards, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edwards, David Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION welsh football player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Shrewsbury , England