Jake Bidwell

Jake Bidwell
Personnel
Surname	Jake Brian Bidwell
birthday	March 21, 1993
place of birth	Southport ,  England
size	1.83 m
position	Defense , full-back
Juniors
Years	station
2004-2009	Everton FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2013	Everton FC	0 (0)
2011–2012	→  Brentford FC  (loan)	24 (0)
2012-2013	→ Brentford FC (loan)	40 (0)
2013-2016	Brentford FC	126 (3)
2016-2019	Queens Park Rangers	122 (2)
2019–	Swansea City	8 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
0000-2009	England U-16	4 (2)
2009-2010	England U17	7 (1)
2011	England U18	1 (0)
2011–2012	England U-19	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of September 23, 2019

Jake Brian Bidwell (born March 21, 1993 in Southport ) is an English football player on the position of defender .

On December 17, 2009 he made his professional debut along with some other young Everton FC players when he was in action during a 1-0 loss to BATE Baryssau in the group stage of the 2009/10 Europa League .

Career

Youth and club career

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After he was already active as a youth player in his home country, he joined the youth division of Everton FC in 2004. There he went through several leagues and took part with the youth teams in a large number of tournaments and other competitions. He also took part in the FA Youth Cup of the 2008/09 season, where he and the team were eliminated from the current competition in the fifth round, shortly before the quarter-finals, after the team lost to the offspring of Norwich City on penalties . Furthermore, in the summer of 2008 he was in action with his age colleagues (U-15) in the Milk Cup , an international youth football tournament.

After he was only sporadically in the reserve team of the English first division club during the season 2008/09, he came to his assignments in the Northern Division of the Premier Reserve League for the 2009/10 season . On December 16, 2009 he was selected by the coach of the professional team David Moyes in the starting eleven for the Europa League match against the Belarusian club BATE Baryssau. At the game the following day, Bidwell made his debut as a professional footballer along with a number of other young Everton players. During the game, the left full-back was on the field for the entire duration of the game and only had to admit defeat with his team in the 75th minute after a goal from Alyaksandr Yuryevich .

As it became known shortly afterwards, Bidwell was at this point in time at 16 years and 271 days the third-youngest player ever to appear in a competitive game for Everton FC. The only younger ones were James Vaughan , who was just one day younger than Bidwell in April 2005 and also scored his first professional goal, and Jose Baxter , who made his professional debut at the age of 16 years and 191 days (August 2008). In addition, the young defender was up to this point the youngest player in the club to ever appear in such a European competition and broke the record set by Jack Rodwell , who was only 13 days older at the time, since December 2007 . Bidwell made another appearance in the club's history that evening as his appearance became the youngest player ever to appear in a professional game at Goodison Park . He replaced the previous record from Wayne Rooney , who was almost a month older when he made his professional debut in August 2002.

After playing in the Europa League, the young full-back has not been considered in any other professional game and was mainly active in the youth and reserve team. Bidwell was also used during the 2009/10 FA Youth Cup , where he and his teammates are in the quarter-finals of the ongoing competition at the moment (end of February 2010).

International

Bidwell got his first international experience in the English U-16 national team, which he was a member of until 2009 and for which he played a number of international matches. At the beginning of July 2009, the committed player was appointed to the U-17 team in his home country, for which he scored a goal in a total of seven games. At the Nordic Tournament , which lasted from the end of July to the beginning of August 2009, the young left winger was in all four games of the tournament and, in addition to a 1-1 draw against Denmark's U-17s, also won three wins (8-0 over the Faroe Islands -Islands , 1-0 against Norway and 3-2 in the final against Scotland ). In the final, in which England were already 2-0 down after just 38 minutes, goals were scored in the 76th and 79th minutes, which is why they went into extra time. There Jake Bidwell met in the 95th minute of the game to make it 3-2 and thus secured the victory of England's U-17 national team over their peers from Scotland.

successes

• 1 × Nordic Tournament winner : 2009

Web links

• Jake Bidwell in the database of weltfussball.de
• Player profile on the homepage of Everton FC (English)
• Academy player profile on the homepage of Everton FC (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Youth Impress In Milk Cup , accessed on February 26, 2010
2. ↑ Reserves Stats - 2008/09 (English), accessed on February 26, 2010
3. ^ Reserve Team Stats 2009/10 , accessed February 26, 2010
4. ↑ Moyes Names Starting XI ( Memento of the original from January 19, 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. (English), accessed February 26, 2010 
5. ^ Everton v BATE: The Lowdown , accessed February 26, 2010
6. ^ Match Report - Everton v BATE , accessed February 26, 2010
7. ↑ Bidwell callled-Up (English), accessed 26 February 2010
8. ^ Bidwell strike wins Nordics for England , accessed February 26, 2010
9. ^ Bidwell's Final Heroics , accessed February 26, 2010