Neil Taylor

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Neil Taylor
AUT vs. WAL 2016-10-06 (117) .jpg
Taylor in the national team jersey (2016)
Personnel
Surname Neil John Taylor
birthday February 7, 1989
place of birth Ruthin ,  Wales
size 175 cm
position Full-back (left)
Juniors
Years station
1998-2005 Manchester City
2005-2007 Wrexham FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007-2010 Wrexham FC 73 (3)
2010-2017 Swansea City 160 (0)
2017– Aston Villa 74 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2005-2006 Wales U17 10 (0)
2006-2007 Wales U-19 5 (0)
2007-2010 Wales U-21 13 (0)
2010– Wales 42 (1)
2012 Great Britain Olympia 4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 9, 2019

2 As of March 20, 2019

Neil John Taylor (born February 7, 1989 in Ruthin ) is a Welsh football player . The left full- back comes from the youth division of Manchester City , but moved to lower-class Wrexham FC at the age of 16 . The Welshman, who is also active for his country's national team , has been under contract with the English club Aston Villa since summer 2017 .

Career

youth

Taylor, who is of Indian descent, began his career in the Manchester City youth department . After seven years there, an injury forced him to leave the club in 2005. Despite some offers from other top British clubs , Taylor decided at the age of 16 for Wrexham FC , whose professional team was playing in Football League Two at the time and is only about 30 kilometers from his hometown Ruthin .

In summer 2007 he signed his first professional contract and at the same time advanced to the first team. In his first season he came across all competitions on 27 missions for the Red Dragons . Immediately after this season he extended his contract until the end of the 2009/10 season.

Swansea City

Taylor did not renew his contract in Wrexham and moved to Swansea City on a free transfer in the summer of 2010 . However, Taylor was younger than 24 when he switched, so Wrexham FC was entitled to compensation. After the first failed negotiations, a settlement of 150,000 pounds including 10% of all future transfer proceeds was agreed in the face of impending legal proceedings . With the Swans , Taylor earned himself a regular place and completed 29 league games in the first season, which ultimately led to the play-off victory against Reading FC and the associated promotion to the Premier League . In the summer of 2011, Taylor turned down an offer from Newcastle United , who were willing to pay the £ 1 million committed transfer fee by extending his contract with Swansea City.

After the team had held their own in the top English league for the first two seasons, they even managed to win the League Cup in the 2012/13 season - but without Taylor. He suffered multiple ankle fractures in September 2012, had to undergo surgery and was out until the end of the season. He also extended his contract with the Swans until the end of the 2015/16 season. These finished the Welsh in 12th place .

Aston Villa

After increasing competition on the left-back position from Stephen Kingsley and Martin Olsson , he moved to the then second division Aston Villa at the end of the winter transfer period at the end of January 2017 . Taylor's move was part of a swap between the two clubs, with Swansea City also paying an estimated £ 5 million transfer fee for the services of Ghana international Jordan Ayew . Taylor was instrumental in promoting Aston Villa to the Premier League after the 2018/19 season ended.

National team

After Taylor had gone through various youth selections, he made his debut in May 2010 in the friendly against Croatia for the national team of Wales. After that, however, he had to wait a year for his next appearance, but then played seven games in a row, including the last four games in qualifying for the Euro 2012 , which the Welsh missed.

Instead, he took part in the summer of 2012 under coach Stuart Pearce for Team GB as one of five Welsh players at the 2012 Summer Olympics and was used there in all games. However, the British failed in the quarter-finals on penalties at the later bronze medalist South Korea , although he was not one of the shooters. After the Olympics he had to wait another year for his next assignment for Wales. In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup , which the Welsh missed again, he was only used in the last two games. After that he was a regular player and was not used in qualifying for the Euro 2016 only in the last game. But the Welsh people's first participation in the European Championship finals was already certain, for whom this is the first participation in a major football tournament since the 1958 World Cup .

He was then accepted as a regular in Wales' squad for the finals in France and was on the pitch in all six tournament games for the full season. In the third round game against Russia he scored his first goal for the Welsh selection: In the 20th minute he scored the 2-0, the game ended 3-0. The team reached the semi-finals as a newcomer to the European Championship.

Web links

Commons : Neil Taylor  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ goal.com: "Football in India is growing - Swansea City's Neil Taylor" (English, February 17, 2012, accessed April 18, 2013)
  2. ↑ bbc.co.uk: "Wrexham rookies sign new deals" (English, March 13, 2008, accessed April 18, 2013)
  3. ↑ a b bbc.co.uk: "Swansea agree Neil Taylor compensation" (English, September 30, 2010, accessed April 18, 2013)
  4. ↑ walesonline.co.uk: "Swansea City turn down £ 1 million Newcastle bid for Neil Taylor" (English, June 27, 2011, accessed April 18, 2013)
  5. ↑ goal.com: "Swansea defender Taylor out for rest of the season with broken ankle" (English, September 2, 2012, accessed April 18, 2013)
  6. ↑ bbc.co.uk: "Neil Taylor signs fresh Swansea deal" (English, December 14, 2012, accessed April 18, 2013)
  7. ↑ bbc.co.uk: "Jordan Ayew: Swansea sign Aston Villa forward in Neil Taylor swap deal" (English, January 31, 2017, accessed August 9, 2019)
  8. ↑ Match report: Great Britain U23 vs. Korea Republic U23 1 - 1 in soccerway.com database. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Neil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, Neil John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION welsh football player
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruthin , Wales