Tom Heaton

Tom Heaton
Tom Heaton (2015)
Personnel
Surname	Thomas David Heaton
birthday	April 15, 1986
place of birth	Chester ,  England
size	188 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
2002-2005	Manchester United
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2010	Manchester United	0 (0)
2005-2006	→  Swindon Town  (loan)	14 (0)
2006	→  Royal Antwerp  (loan)	0 (0)
2008-2009	→  Cardiff City  (loan)	21 (0)
2009	→  Queens Park Rangers  (loan)	0 (0)
2009-2010	→  Rochdale AFC  (loan)	12 (0)
2010	→  Wycombe Wanderers  (loan)	16 (0)
2010–2012	Cardiff City	29 (0)
2012-2013	Bristol City	43 (0)
2013-2019	Burnley FC	188 (0)
2019–	Aston Villa	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2008-2009	England U-21	3 (0)
2016–	England	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2018/19 2 As of November 14, 2017

Thomas David "Tom" Heaton (born April 15, 1986 in Chester ) is an English football goalkeeper . He was trained at Manchester United , but could not recommend himself there sustainably. After a few years with various lower-class clubs, he found his sporting luck at Burnley FC in 2013 , where he was promoted to the Premier League in 2014 and 2016. At the relatively advanced age of 30, he made his debut for the English senior team and was nominated for the “Three Lions” squad at Euro 2016 in France.

Career

Manchester United & Loan Centers (2002-2010)

Heaton joined Manchester United in 2002 as a junior player and played for the club's U-17 and U-19 in the following years. In 2003 he was substitute goalkeeper behind Luke Steele when he won the FA Youth Cup . In the 2004/05 season he was the regular keeper of the reserve team and won with the team the championships in the Premier Reserve League and Central League and the Central League Cup .

At the beginning of the 2005/06 season he was awarded jointly with Colin Heath to Swindon Town . After a knee injury to the regular goalkeeper Rhys Evans, Heaton moved into the starting line-up at the end of August and made a total of 19 appearances by the end of November. A dismissal in the FA Cup replay against Boston United brought Evans back into Swindon's goal and kept that place in December. Heaton returned to Manchester on January 1, 2006 when the loan deal ended. He spent the second half of the season on loan at the Belgian partner club Royal Antwerp , but was not used there for the first team. Heaton spent the following two seasons in the reserve team of United, but was nominated several times as a substitute for games of the 1st team due to injuries to Edwin van der Sar and Tomasz Kuszczak , without being used.

The entire 2008/09 season Heaton was awarded to Cardiff City in the Football League Championship and prevailed for the regular place in goal against the Finnish national goalkeeper Peter Enckelman . With a calf injury sustained against Plymouth Argyle on November 22nd, Enckelman returned to goal and kept that place after Heaton's return after a run of ten games without loss. When Enckelman was out for a long time due to a knee injury, Heaton came back for the first time in mid-February in a 4-0 defeat against Arsenal in the FA Cup, but injured himself again and was out for several weeks. The place in goal was then taken over by Stuart Taylor , whom Heaton only replaced for the last three game days of the season. After just one point from three games this Cardiff slipped even from the play-off -Plätzen and thus missed the possible promotion to the Premier League . For the 2009/10 season, Manchester lent the keeper again, initially for three months to the Queens Park Rangers , for which he came to two appearances in the League Cup , and then to the fourth division AFC Rochdale .

In February 2010 the next loan deal followed and Heaton joined the Wycombe Wanderers until the end of the season . There he immediately earned a regular place, but could not prevent relegation to Football League Two .

Cardiff City & Bristol City (2010-2013)

In June 2010, he turned down a new contract offer from Manchester United, hoping for more match practice with another club, and shortly afterwards signed a contract with second division Cardiff City . After an elbow injury to goalkeeper David Marshall , Heaton became the new “number 1” in Cardiff and his consistently good performances brought him the club's internal award of the best young professional at the end of the season.

Under the new coach Malky Mackay, Heaton moved back into second line behind Marshall in the 2011/12 season. In the League Cup, however, he played a prominent role on the way to the final. Among other things, he saved two penalties in the semifinals against Crystal Palace . He also parried against Steven Gerrard in the final against Liverpool , but ultimately three Cardiffer misses led to defeat. There was no longer any contract extension and Heaton left the club in mid-2012.

After a successful trial at Bristol City , Heaton signed a one-year contract there. At his new club he was a regular player right away, but rose in the end as bottom of the table and left Bristol again.

Burnley FC (2013-2019)

The next stop was Burnley FC . Burnley had recently lost two goalkeepers from his squad and offered Heaton a two-year contract plus an option for an additional year. In the 2013/14 season, which brought the club the surprising promotion to the Premier League, Heaton was a long-running hit with 46 league appearances and reliable support between the posts of Burnley FC. After this sporting breakthrough, Heaton had to go back to the second division with Burnley a year later, but by winning the second division championship in the 2015/16 season he returned directly to the English elite class. Heaton had been promoted to the new team captain after Jason Shackell's departure to Derby County and he did not miss a single league game in the promotion race.

Aston Villa (since 2019)

On August 1, 2018, Aston Villa secured the 33-year-old goalkeeper's service. According to media reports, the transfer fee was about eight million pounds.

English selection teams

In 2008 and 2009, Heaton came to three appearances for the English U-21 national team , but was not considered by selection coach Stuart Pearce for the 2009 U-21 European Championship . He had previously played in the ages U-16 to U-19. As a mostly lower-class goalkeeper in English football, promotion to national team player seemed out of reach for a long time, until his consistently good performance as captain on the way to the second division championship at Burnley FC catapulted him into the focus of the "Three Lions" in the 2015/16 season . He also benefited from an ankle injury to the third goalkeeper Jack Butland and from then on he recommended himself for first test runs. Heaton made his international debut on May 27, 2016, when he was substituted on for Fraser Forster - the substitute behind regular keeper Joe Hart - in the 87th minute of a 2-1 win against Australia (Burnley FC had none since 1974 England national team more posed). In addition, he was appointed as the second substitute goalkeeper in the English squad for the Euro 2016 in France , where he was not used.

Web links

• Tom Heaton in the soccerbase.com database
• Tom Heaton in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Profile at Aston Villa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile at UEFA (EM 2016)
2. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Swindon seal deal for Man Utd duo (Aug. 18, 2005)
3. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: Wycombe sign keeper Tom Heaton from Manchester United (February 12, 2010)
4. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: Man Utd goalkeeper Tom Heaton returns to Cardiff City (June 15, 2010)
5. ↑ http://www.cardiffcity-mad.co.uk:/ Player of the Year Awards. The winners (April 30, 2011)
6. ↑ Tom Heaton: Aston Villa sign goalkeeper from Burnley for £ 8m. Accessed August 9, 2019 . 
7. ↑ walesonlince.co.uk: City new boy wants to be number one with United (June 13, 2008)
8. ^ "Burnley captain Tom Heaton makes his England debut" (Lancashire Telegraph)