James Collins (soccer player, 1983)
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 James Collins (2016)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | James Michael Collins | |
| birthday | 23rd August 1983 | |
| place of birth | Newport , Wales | |
| size | 188 cm | |
| position | Central defender | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2000-2005 | Cardiff City | 66 (3) |
| 2005-2009 | West Ham United | 54 (2) |
| 2009–2012 | Aston Villa | 91 (5) |
| 2012-2018 | West Ham United | 134 (4) |
| 2019 | Ipswich Town | 6 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2001 | Wales U-19 | 3 (0) |
| 2002 | Wales U20 | 2 (0) |
| 2002-2004 | Wales U-21 | 8 (0) |
| 2004-2017 | Wales | 51 (3) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: October 13, 2019 |
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James Michael Collins (born August 23, 1983 in Newport ) is a Welsh football player . The central defender was voted “Welsh Young Player of the Year” in 2005.
Club career
Collins joined the Welsh flagship club Cardiff City in 2000 as a youth player . In 2003 he rose with the club in the second highest English division. Before joining West Ham United in 2005, the defender had 66 league games.
He moved to the East London club with his teammate and compatriot Danny Gabbidon for a total of £ 3.5m. Collins made his Premier League debut on October 29, 2005 against Liverpool. In the 2006/07 season West Ham was beaten off at the bottom of the table with only 20 points from 29 games and ten points behind a non-relegation place. When two center-backs, Matthew Upson and Gabbidon, fell out, Collins formed the center-back pair with Anton Ferdinand until the end of the season . West Ham won seven of their last nine games and still managed to stay up.
Collins has been struggling with injury problems since the 2007/08 season, initially due to stunted growth. In January 2008 he suffered severe ligament damage that put him out of action for a year.
In the summer of 2009 he moved for the equivalent of 5.7 million euros within the Premier League from West Ham United to Aston Villa , where he signed for four years. For the 2012/13 season he returned to West Ham early.
National team
James Collins played his first game for the Welsh national team on May 27, 2004 in a friendly against Norway over 90 minutes. In the following World Cup qualification, he made his competitive debut in the second game against Northern Ireland on September 8, and then he was already part of the Welsh regular squad. Until 2011 he played regularly in the national team, then he was considered less often for a while. In the 2012/13 World Cup qualification he was used four times, but in the following European Championship qualification he only played in one of the 10 games and stayed on the bench for most of the time. As a supplementary player, he was then also included in the Wales squad at the 2016 European Football Championship in France . At the EM, he first came in the quarter-finals against Belgium when he came on in the 90th minute. In the semi-final against Portugal he was in the starting line-up for Ben Davies , who had been suspended from yellow, and was lucky twice in defensive actions against Cristiano Ronaldo in the first half that the referee did not consider them a foul. In the second half, the Welsh had to accept two goals and were eliminated.
Web links
- James Collins in the database of weltfussball.de
- James Collins in the soccerbase.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Collins ( Memento of August 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), player profile on the West Ham United homepage (accessed on September 7, 2012).
- ↑ kicker.de: "CR7 and Nani shoot Portugal into the final"
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Collins, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Collins, James Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | welsh football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newport , Wales |