Thomas Lam

Thomas Lam
Thomas Lam in the Nottingham Forest jersey
Personnel
Surname	Thomas Anton Rudolph Lam
birthday	18th December 1993
place of birth	Amsterdam ,  Netherlands
size	188 cm
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
2005–2012	AZ Alkmaar
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2014	AZ Alkmaar	6 (0)
2014-2016	PEC Zwolle	61 (4)
2016-2018	Nottingham Forest	19 (2)
2017-2018	→  FC Twente  (loan)	28 (3)
2018–	PEC Zwolle	11 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2012-2014	Finland U-21	11 (1)
2015–	Finland	21 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of December 3, 2018 2 As of December 3, 2018

Thomas Anton Rudolph Lam (born December 18, 1993 in Amsterdam , Netherlands ) is a Finnish - Dutch football player . He is active for the Finnish national soccer team and plays for PEC Zwolle .

societies

AZ Alkmaar

Lam, the son of a Finnish mother and a Dutch father, was born and raised in the Netherlands and started playing football for Amsterdamsche FC . In 2005 he moved to the AZ youth academy and made his debut in the Eredivisie 2012/13 on September 16, 2012 . By the end of the season, the young player played five more league games for tenth place in the table. With his team he won the KNVB Cup in 2012/13 , but remained without a commitment in the 2-1 final victory over PSV Eindhoven . As a cup winner, AZ Alkmaar played in the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League and was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Benfica Lisbon . Lam came to his only appearance in the preliminary round match at PAOK Saloniki and scored the goal to make it 1-0 for his team at 2-2.

PEC Zwolle

In the summer of 2014, Lam moved to league competitor PEC Zwolle . In the Eredivisie 2014/15 he played 28 games for the table sixth and scored two goals. He also played successfully with four goals in five games in the 2014/15 KNVB Cup . With his team he lost the final 0-2 against FC Groningen . In the 2015/16 season Lam (33 games, two goals) missed participation in the international competition with the table eighth as in the previous year in the league's internal qualifying games for the UEFA Europa League .

Nottingham Forest, FC Twente

In July 2016, the English second division club Nottingham Forest Lam signed a three-year contract. There he met Lars Veldwijk on a previous teammate from Zwolle . In August 2017 it was awarded to FC Twente for one season .

Return to PEC

At the end of August 2018, Lam switched back to his former club PEC Zwolle and signed a two-year contract.

Finnish national team

Lam has both Finnish and Dutch citizenship and was therefore eligible to play for both the Finnish and Dutch national teams. After he had already been used in the Finnish youth teams, he made his debut on June 9, 2015 for the national team in a 0-2 home defeat against the Estonian national football team .

Web links

• Thomas Lam in the database of soccerbase.com (English)
• Thomas Lam in the database of weltfussball.de
• Thomas Lam in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} AZ NV (ed.): Lam: 'Leef van dag tot dag'. In: AZ Alkmaar. March 8, 2013, accessed November 6, 2017 (Dutch). 
2. ↑ Uitgelicht: Lam voldoet aan de belangrijkste wensen van Hake. August 27, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2017 (Dutch). 
3. ↑ Thomas Lam: Nottingham Forest sign Finland international defender (BBC Sport)
4. ↑ http://www.fctwente.nl/blog/2017/08/thomas-lam-huurbasis-fc-twente/
5. ↑ Thomas Lam keert terug op oude nest , PEC Zwolle, August 29, 2018, accessed on January 27, 2018 (Dutch)