Matthew Taylor (soccer player, November 1981)
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 Matthew Taylor (2007)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Matthew John Taylor | |
| birthday | November 27, 1981 | |
| place of birth | Oxford , England | |
| size | 178 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1999-2002 | Luton Town | 129 (16) |
| 2002-2008 | Portsmouth FC | 178 (23) |
| 2008-2011 | Bolton Wanderers | 123 (23) |
| 2011-2014 | West Ham United | 76 (2) |
| 2014-2016 | Burnley FC | 37 (4) |
| 2016-2017 | Northampton Town | 44 (7) |
| 2017-2019 | Swindon Town | 71 (9) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2002-2003 | England U-21 | 3 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2019 | Swindon Town (interim) | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Matthew John Taylor (born November 27, 1981 in Oxford ) is a former English professional footballer .
Career
society
Taylor grew up in Abingdon and was very successful as a teenager. Several times he reached the finals of youth tournaments with school teams and in 1995 he won the "Vale of the White Horse School Cup". In his youth he was a fan of Tottenham Hotspur , which is why rumors of a move to London kept surfacing in his later career .
He began his professional career at Luton Town in the 1999/00 season after he had previously been rejected as "too fat" in a trial training session at Oxford United in his home country . In his first season, he was named Young Player of the Year.
Taylor's consistently strong performances in the following years aroused the interest of various clubs from the Premier League , but in 2002 he moved to Portsmouth FC in the First Division for a transfer fee of £ 750,000 . After just a year he rose to the Premier League with his new club. But an injury at the end of the season forced Taylor to take a break, so he missed the start of the season. After that, he did not succeed in regaining a regular place. Only at the end of the 2003/04 season he was back in the regular formation. But with the commitment of David Unsworth Taylor lost his place in the starting lineup again in the following season. But Unsworth could not prevail at "Pompey", so he left the club in the summer of 2005 again. Since then, Taylor was again a regular in the team of coach Harry Redknapp , completed 69 league games in the next two years.
After he had turned down an offer from Sunderland AFC shortly before , Taylor moved to Bolton Wanderers on January 17, 2008 . After three years in Bolton , Matthew Taylor moved to the then second division West Ham United on July 23, 2011 . There he was promoted to the Premier League in his first year and two years later he was hired for a free transfer at Burnley FC , which had also recently been promoted to the top English division. After four missions in the 2014/15 season, Taylor had to take a long break due to problems with the Achilles tendon, underwent an operation in October 2014 and only made his comeback in April 2015. After his two-year contract expired, Taylor moved on to third division Northampton Town in August 2016 , before ending his sporting career with fourth division Swindon Town until 2019.
On March 1, 2018, Taylor was briefly entrusted with the sporting management of the team after the resignation of coach David Flitcroft . After the 3-0 home defeat against Cheltenham Town under his, Phil Brown was finally hired as his successor and Taylor continued to work in the dual role of player and assistant coach. On July 8, 2019, Taylor's move to the Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff as responsible for the U18 youth selection was announced.
National team
Taylor made three appearances for the England U-21 national team in 2002 and 2003, followed by an appearance in the England B national team against Albania in 2007.
Web links
- Matthew Taylor in the soccerbase.com database
- Former profile at West Ham United (web archive)
- Matthew Taylor in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ BBC Sports
- ^ "Taylor makes Bolton move" (SkySports)
- ↑ West Ham sign Bolton midfielder Matt Taylor (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Taylor goes under the knife to fix Achilles problem" (Lancashire Telegraph)
- ^ "Former Swindon Town defender Matt Taylor joins Tottenham Hotspur's coaching staff following retirement as a player" (Swindon Advertiser)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Taylor, Matthew |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taylor, Matthew John (full name); Taylor, Matt (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oxford , England |