George Williams (soccer player, 1995)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | George Christopher Williams | |
| birthday | September 7, 1995 | |
| place of birth | Milton Keynes , England | |
| size | 172 cm | |
| position | Winger | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| –2011 | Milton Keynes Dons | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2011–2012 | Milton Keynes Dons | 2 (0) |
| 2012-2018 | Fulham FC | 15 (0) |
| 2015 | → Milton Keynes Dons (loan) | 4 (0) |
| 2016 | → Gillingham FC (loan) | 10 (0) |
| 2016-2017 | → Milton Keynes Dons (loan) | 11 (0) |
| 2018 | → FC St. Johnstone (loan) | 11 (0) |
| 2018– | Forest Green Rovers | 41 (7) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 2012 | Wales U17 | 2 (0) |
| 2013 | Wales U-19 | 7 (1) |
| 2014-2016 | Wales U-21 | 3 (0) |
| 2014– | Wales | 7 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of August 3, 2019 2 As of March 24, 2016 |
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George Christopher Williams (born September 7, 1995 in Milton Keynes , England ) is a Welsh football player who has played for the Welsh national team since 2014 . The 1.72 meter tall winger signed on to Forest Green Rovers in 2018 .
Athletic career
Born northwest of London , Williams joined the youth division of his home club Milton Keynes Dons and made his debut in the professional team of the third division team as the club's youngest player and goalscorer (16 years, 2 months and 5 days) and youngest scorer of a "proper" - Round of the FA Cup on November 12, 2011, but lost the youngest player's record to substitute Brendan Galloway (15 years, 7 months and 26 days).
In June 2012, he joined as a 16-year-old in the youth academy of Premier League -Vereins Fulham . For Fulham he first came to the age of 18 in the 2014/15 season after the club was relegated from the Premier League. Before the season ended, however, he was loaned out to his home club, for which he was only able to play four games in February and March 2015 due to a torn cruciate ligament . After recovering, he only came to Fulham on 23 January 2016 and was loaned to third division Gillingham FC for the rest of the season . Loans to Milton Keynes Dons and FC St. Johnstone followed . For the 2018/19 season he moved to fourth division Forest Green Rovers on a free transfer .
National team
Since Williams' mother is Welsh, he can play internationally for Wales. He played for the U-17 , U-19 (in the first qualifying rounds for the U-19 European Football Championship in 2013 and 2014 ) and the U-21 team , for which he played against England on March 5, 2014 in the qualification for the U-21 European Championship in 2015 made his debut and played well in the second leg.
The only international goal he has scored so far in a U-19 friendly against Germany when he equalized in the 3-1 defeat.
On June 4, 2014, he played for the Welsh national team for the first time at the age of 18 . He was nominated for the injured Gareth Bale and came on in the 70th minute of the friendly against the Netherlands for his namesake Jonny Williams . He was also in the next two games in qualifying for the Euro 2016 when Bale came on again in the final quarter of an hour and was then for the first time against Cyprus on October 13th together with Bale in the starting eleven, but was replaced after 58 minutes. In the following European Championship qualifier against Belgium he was substituted on for the second half. After that, he had to wait a year for his sixth game. During this time, the Welsh qualified for a European Championship finals for the first time. After completing the qualification, he was then nominated for the injured Sam Vokes in November 2015 . He was then used again as in his first game in a lost friendly game against the Netherlands, where he came on after an hour. This was followed by an approximately one-hour starting eleven in March 2016 against Northern Ireland .
On May 9, 2016, he was appointed to the provisional squad for the Euro 2016, with which a training camp in Portugal began on May 23. He was then also taken into account for the final squad. Like two other field players, he was not used in the tournament. He was then nominated again for the first game in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup , but not used.
Web links
- George Williams in the database of weltfussball.de
- George Williams in the soccerway.com database
- George Williams in the soccerbase.com database
- George Williams in the database of EU-Football.info (English)
- George Williams in the UEFA .com database
- Profile on the Fulham website
Individual evidence
- ↑ bbc.com: "George Williams became the youngest ever MK Dons scorer as his side cruised to FA Cup victory over Nantwich Town"
- ↑ archive.org: "ROBBO: BOY DON GOOD" ( Memento from June 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ fulhamfc.co: "Williams Injury Update"
- ↑ Germany (U19) - Wales (U19) 3: 1
- ↑ Netherlands - Wales 2-0
- ↑ ws-skybrid.co: "Wales Fall to Gallant Defeat"
- ↑ faw.cymru: "GEORGE WILLIAMS REPLACES SAM VOKES IN WALES SQUAD"
- ↑ faw.org: "COLEMAN ANNOUNCES SQUAD FOR PORTUGAL TRAINING CAMP"
- ↑ uefa.com: Coleman names provisional Wales squad for EURO
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Williams, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Williams, George Christopher (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | welsh football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milton Keynes , England |