Tony Watt

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Tony Watt
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Tony Watt (2019)
Personnel
Surname Anthony Watt
birthday December 29, 1993
place of birth Coatbridge ,  Scotland
size 173 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
0000-2010 Airdrie United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010-2011 Airdrie United 15 (3)
2011-2014 Celtic Glasgow 25 (7)
2013-2014 →  Lierse SK  (loan) 17 (8)
2014-2015 Standard Liege 13 (2)
2015-2017 Charlton Athletic 53 (9)
2015-2016 →  Cardiff City  (loan) 9 (2)
2016 →  Blackburn Rovers  (loan) 9 (1)
2016 →  Heart of Midlothian  (loan) 16 (1)
2017-2018 Oud-Heverlee lions 11 (1)
2018-2019 St. Johnstone FC 29 (3)
2019-2020 CSKA Sofia 15 (3)
2020– Motherwell FC 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2011 Scotland U-19 5 (1)
2012 Scotland U-20 1 (0)
2012-2013 Scotland U-21 9 (5)
2016 Scotland 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 7, 2020

Anthony "Tony" Watt (born December 29, 1993 in Coatbridge ) is a Scottish football player . The striker is under contract with Motherwell FC .

Club career

Tony Watt was born in Coatbridge, which is in the North Lanarkshire region and in close proximity to the largest city in Scotland, Glasgow . Watt's career began at Airdrie United in the junior division until he was first appointed to the first-team squad in 2010. He made his debut for the third division in the Challenge Cup against Ayr United . Watt celebrated his league game debut against FC East Fife in August 2010, which shortly after being substituted on, scored the goal to make it 3: 3. In December 2010 the Scottish Football League named Young Player Of The Month , the two Scottish top clubs Celtic and the Rangers became aware of the talented striker. In January 2011, Watt signed a three-year contract with the Hoops with Kelvin Wilson who came from Nottingham Forest . In Glasgow he first played in the Youth Academy and made his debut in the professional squad of Celtic against FC Motherwell in the 2011/12 season . As a substitute for Paweł Brożek in the 59th minute , Watt scored two goals in a 3-0 away win. After Celtic had signed two new strikers with Amido Baldé and Teemu Pukki at the beginning of the 2013/14 season , Watt was awarded the Belgian first division club and four-time champion of the Lierse Sportkring Koninklijke . In July 2014 Watt moved to Standard Liège for an unknown transfer, with whom he signed a long-term contract until 2019. He made his debut for the new team against KV Kortrijk on the 2nd match day of the 2014/15 season when he came on in the 64th minute of the game for Paul-José Mpoku . Until the winter break of 2014/15, the striker had played in twelve other league games for the club, scoring two goals. In January 2015, Watt signed a three and a half year contract with English second division club Charlton Athletic . From November 2015 to January 2016 it was loaned to Cardiff City , followed by another loan from January 2016 to the end of the season to Blackburn Rovers . In July 2016, Watt was awarded to the Scottish first division club Heart of Midlothian for the 2016/17 season . The loan ended on January 1, 2017.

National team

In September 2011 Watt made his debut in the U-19 national team of Scotland against Slovenia, a year later in the U-20 against Mexico, and in the U-21 against Luxembourg. In March 2016 Watt made his debut in the Scottish senior team against the Czech Republic in Prague when he came on for Ross McCormack .

successes

with Celtic Glasgow:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Airdrie United 1-2 Ayr United ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. scottishfootballleague.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scottishfootballleague.com
  2. ^ East Fife 3-3 Airdrie Utd BBC Sport
  3. ↑ Watt an award for Tony and Mike ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. scottishfootballleague.com (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scottishfootballleague.com
  4. ↑ Celtic hope for early Kelvin Wilson switch from Forest BBC Sport (English)
  5. ↑ Motherwell 0-3 Celtic BBC Sport
  6. ↑ Celtic striker Tony Watt joins Lierse SK on loan BBC Sport (English)
  7. ↑ Celtic: Tony Watt signs deal with Belgians Standard Liege BBC Sport (English)
  8. ↑ KV Kortrijk 2: 3 (2: 1) standard. (No longer available online.) Sport.be, August 2, 2014, archived from the original on August 9, 2014 ; Retrieved August 5, 2014 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sport.be
  9. ^ Former Celtic striker Tony Watt signs for Charlton Athletic. dailyrecord.co.uk, January 6, 2015, accessed January 7, 2015 .
  10. ^ Tony Watt: Hearts sign former Celtic striker on season-long loan. BBC Sport, July 20, 2016, accessed July 21, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Scotland 1-2 Slovenia scottishfa.co.uk
  12. ↑ Scotland 1-2 Mexico scottishfa.co.uk
  13. ↑ Scotland 3-0 Luxembourg scottishfa.co.uk
  14. ↑ Czech Republic 0: 1 (0: 1) Scotland. Scottish FA, March 24, 2016, accessed July 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Watt, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Watt, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Coatbridge , Scotland