Tom Bradshaw (soccer player, 1992)

Tom Bradshaw
Bradshaw (2017)
Personnel
Surname	Thomas William C. Bradshaw
birthday	July 27, 1992
place of birth	Shrewsbury ,  England
position	attack
Juniors
Years	station
2004-2008	Aberystwyth Town
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2009	Aberystwyth Town	4 0(2)
2009-2014	Shrewsbury Town	89 (17)
2014-2016	Walsall FC	70 (34)
2016-2018	Barnsley FC	85 (18)
2018–	Millwall FC	38 0(8)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2010-2011	Wales U-19	3 0(1)
2011-2013	Wales U-21	8 0(1)
2016–	Wales	3 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: January 18, 2020 2 As of March 22, 2018

Thomas William C. "Tom" Bradshaw (born July 27, 1992 in Shrewsbury , England ) is a Welsh national football player who played for the Welsh national team for the first time in 2016 . The attacking player is under contract with the English second division club Millwall .

Athletic career

Bradshaw was not far from the city of his youth at the Welsh club Aberystwyth Town formed which in the 2008/09 Welsh Premier Football League was eighth, to which he contributed as a 16-year-old scored twice. He moved to the English fourth division club Shrewsbury Town in his native town in 2009 , for which the club had to transfer £ 30,000 as training allowance to Wales. In his first season there he came to six league appearances and scored three goals. Shrewsbury finished the season in 12th place and so had nothing to do with relegation or promotion. In the next season he doubled his scoring, but needed 28 games. Shrewsbury just missed direct promotion in fourth and then failed in the semi-finals of the promotion playoffs at Seventh Torquay United . In the 2011/12 season he came to only eight missions with only one goal, but Shrewsbury rose as runner-up. In 2012/13 they held their own in the third division as 16th, to which Bradshaw could not contribute in 21 games. In 2013/14 he scored seven goals in 28 games, but could not prevent Shrewsbury from being relegated as penultimate again. He then moved to the previous league competitor FC Walsall . There he scored 17 goals in 28 games, more than a third of the club's goals in Football League One 2014/15 , making it Walsall's top scorer and eighth top scorer in the league. In addition, he reached the final of the Football League Trophy 2014/15 with Walsall , but lost it in front of 72,315 spectators at Wembley Stadium against second division champions Bristol City . In the following season he led Walsall again with 17 goals in 42 games and again eighth top scorer in third place and thus in the promotion playoffs, in which they failed in the semifinals.

For the 2016/17 season he moved to the second division club FC Barnsley , who had made it into the EFL Championship after finishing third in the pre-season playoffs. Bradshaw helped with eight goals in 42 games that the newly promoted reached a midfield position. A year later he scored nine goals, but Barnsley was relegated third from bottom. After just four games at the start of EFL League One 2017/18 , Bradshaw moved back to the second division for Millwall FC . As 21st, Millwall narrowly avoided relegation to the third division.

National team

Bradshaw was born in England, but grew up in Tywyn , Gwynedd, Wales and can therefore play internationally for Wales. As a 17-year-old, he played three times for the U-19 team in October 2010 in the first qualifying round for the 2011 U-19 European Football Championship . He succeeded in the 3: 3 against Turkey 15 minutes after his substitution in the first minute of stoppage time, the connecting goal to 2: 3 and a teammate three minutes later the equalizer. In the two following games he was in the starting line-up, but remained without a goal and was replaced. Wales reached the second qualifying round (elite round) as second in the group. For this he was not considered and his teammates failed because of Serbia .

In 2011 and 2012 he took part in six of the eight games in qualifying for the U-21 European Championship 2013 for the U-21 team . The Welsh were eliminated as penultimate and he only managed a goal on his first appearance in a 3-1 draw against Montenegro . In September 2013 he was substituted on again in two games in qualifying for the U-21 European Championship 2015 , in which Wales lost 1-0 to San Marino . For San Marino this was the first ever sporting victory in a European Championship qualification, before there were only two wins at the green table . Against Moldova only a 0-0 jumped out. Fourth, the Welsh missed qualifying for the finals.

In October 2014 he was put on the standby list for the matches in qualifying for the Euro 2016 against Bosnia and Herzegovina and Cyprus , but had to pass due to a hamstring tear . The Welsh could then qualify for the first time for a European Championship finals without his participation. After qualifying, he was invited to an international match for the first time in November 2015, but was not used in the 3-2 draw against the Netherlands on November 13, 2015. He made his first appearance on March 28, 2016 when he came on as a substitute in the 73rd minute in a 1-0 draw against Ukraine , but could not turn the game around.

On May 9, 2016, he was appointed to the provisional squad for the Euro 2016, with which a training camp in Portugal began on May 23. In the end, however, he was not considered for the final squad. In 2017 and 2018 he came to one more assignment, where he was substituted on.

Web links

• Tom Bradshaw in the weltfussball.de database
• Tom Bradshaw in the soccerway.com database
• Tom Bradshaw in the soccerbase.com database
• Tom Bradshaw in the database of EU-Football.info (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ shropshirestar.com: "Shrewsbury Town must pay Tom Bradshaw fee"
2. ↑ Turkey U19 vs. Wales U19 3-3
3. ↑ .bbc.com: "Tom Bradshaw: Walsall striker's Wales hopes hit by injury"
4. ↑ Wales vs. Netherlands 2 - 3
5. ↑ Ukraine 1-0 Wales
6. ↑ uefa.com: "EURO test match form check: Wales"
7. ↑ faw.org: "COLEMAN ANNOUNCES SQUAD FOR PORTUGAL TRAINING CAMP"
8. ↑ uefa.com: Coleman names provisional Wales squad for EURO