Tom James (soccer player, 1996)

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Tom James
Thomas James 2014.jpg
Tom James (2014)
Personnel
Surname Thomas Lynn James
birthday April 15, 1996
place of birth CardiffWales
size 180 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
2004-2014 Cardiff City
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2014-2017 Cardiff City 1 (0)
2017-2019 Yeovil Town 78 (6)
2019– Hibernian Edinburgh 6 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2014 Wales U19 at least 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 9, 2020

Thomas "Tom" Lynn James (born April 15, 1996 in Cardiff ) is a Welsh football player who is under contract with Hibernian Edinburgh in the Scottish Premiership .

Career

society

Tom James joined Cardiff City in 2004 . For the club he played for the various youth teams over the next ten years. In April 2014 he got his first professional contract in Cardiff. He made his professional debut a month later in May 2014 in the Premier League game against Chelsea when he was substituted on for Fraizer Campbell . It was his only game in the first team for the next three years.

In January 2017, the 20-year-old defender moved to the English fourth division club Yeovil Town . After playing two league games in the rest of the 2016/17 season , he formed the defense of coach Darren Way in the following two seasons, 2017/18 and 2018/19 .

After Yeovil was relegated in 2019, James moved to Scotland to join Hibernian Edinburgh . Responsible for his signing coach Paul Heckingbottom was sacked six months after arriving in Edinburgh. Under the successor Jack Ross , James was hardly used in the further course of the 2019/20 season .

National team

Tom James played for the Welsh U19 national team against Portugal at least once in 2014 .

Web links

Commons : Thomas James (footballer)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yeovil sign Cardiff's Tom James. BBC Sport, January 23, 2017, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  2. ^ Hibs sign defender Tom James from Yeovil Town. BBC Sport, June 26, 2019, accessed March 9, 2020 .