Matt Mills (soccer player)
| Matt Mills | ||
 Matt Mills in the Nottingham Forest jersey
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Matthew Claude Mills | |
| birthday | July 14, 1986 | |
| place of birth | Swindon , England | |
| size | 191 cm | |
| position | Central defender | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Southampton FC | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2003-2006 | Southampton FC | 4 (0) |
| 2004 | → Coventry City (loan) | 4 (0) |
| 2005 | → AFC Bournemouth (loan) | 12 (3) |
| 2006-2008 | Manchester City | 2 (0) |
| 2007 | → Colchester United (loan) | 9 (0) |
| 2007-2008 | → Doncaster Rovers (loan) | 34 (3) |
| 2008-2009 | Doncaster Rovers | 41 (0) |
| 2009-2011 | Reading FC | 61 (4) |
| 2011–2012 | Leicester City | 25 (1) |
| 2012-2015 | Bolton Wanderers | 87 (6) |
| 2015-2018 | Nottingham Forest | 82 (6) |
| 2018– | Barnsley FC | 1 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2004-2005 | England U-19 | 8 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of February 7, 2018 |
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Matthew Claude "Matt" Mills (born July 14, 1986 in Swindon , England ) is an English football player who has played for Barnsley FC since January 2018 .
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First stations
Originally from the youth academy of Southampton FC , Matt Mills made his professional debut on September 18, 2004 for the second division side Coventry City (0-0 against Rotherham United ), for whom he was on loan at the time. After another loan in the second half of the 2004/05 season to the third division AFC Bournemouth , he played four league games for Southampton FC in the Football League Championship 2005/06 before moving to Manchester City on January 31, 2006 . For his new club he played his first game in the Premier League 2005/06 on March 25, 2006 (2-0 defeat at Chelsea ). Since he remained up to a further use on October 21, 2006 against Wigan Athletic without match practice, he was loaned to the second division club Colchester United on January 26, 2007 . At the beginning of the 2007/08 season, another loan to the third division Doncaster Rovers followed . With the Rovers, he achieved promotion to the second division thanks to a 1-0 win in the play-off final against Leeds United .
Doncaster Rovers and Reading FC
After his convincing performance last season, Doncaster announced the signing of Matt Mills on July 31, 2008, for a club record transfer of £ 300,000. With the promoted team he secured himself in the Football League Championship 2008/09 as fourth in the table, relegation, but decided after this success to another move and signed on August 5, 2009 for a transfer of £ 2,000,000 a contract with Reading FC . With his new team he spent the following two seasons in the second division. 2010/11 he missed promotion to the Premier League with Reading by a 2: 4 defeat in the play-off final against Swansea City .
Leicester City and Bolton Wanderers
On July 8, 2011 Mills moved to league rivals Leicester City and signed a four-year contract. After Nigel Pearson had replaced Sven-Göran Eriksson as coach of the second division club in November 2011 , Mills lost his position as team captain and was no longer used by Pearson. As a result, after just a year, he announced his departure from Leicester and signed with the Bolton Wanderers . With the relegated from the Premier League he missed the play-offs in 2012/13 as a table seventh only because of the worse goal difference. In the subsequent two seasons Bolton could not build on this performance and was far from a return to the first division.
Nottingham Forest
On July 1, 2015, Mills joined Nottingham Forest on a free transfer .
Web links
- Matt Mills in the soccerbase.com database
- Profile on the website of Nottingham Forest (English)
- Matt Mills in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Man City sign Mills from Saints (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Mills secures move to Colchester (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Doncaster sign Man City's Mills (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Play-Off Final 2008 (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Doncaster tie up Mills transfer (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Mills completes Reading transfer (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Play-Off Final 2011 (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Defender Matt Mills leaves Reading for Leicester City (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Matt Mills denies falling out with Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Bolton Wanderers sign defender Matt Mills from Leicester City (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Matt Mills: Former Bolton defender joins Nottingham Forest (BBC Sport)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mills, Matt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mills, Matthew Claude (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swindon , England |