Andy Williams (Welsh footballer)

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Andy Williams
Personal information
Full name Andrew Williams
Date of birth October 8, 1977 (1977-10-08) (age 30)
Place of birth    Bristol, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position Defender
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1997 - 1999
1999
1999 - 2001
2001 - 2004		 Southampton
Swindon Town (loan)
Swindon Town
Bath City		 21 (0)
04 (0)
40 (1)   
National team
1997 - 1998 Wales 02 (0)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Andy Williams (born 1977-10-08) is a former professional footballer who played as a winger.

Williams began his playing career as a trainee at Southampton. After a brief loan spell at Swindon Town in 1999, the Wiltshire club signed him on a permanent basis and he went on to make a total of 47 appearances in all competitions in his twenty months at the club, scoring one goal. In 2001 he gave up playing full-time football due to injury. He joined Bath City, and began a career with the police.[1] He spent three years in Bath before being forced to entirely retire from football due to a knee injury in 2004.[2]

Williams won two full caps for Wales, against Brazil in 1997 and Malta in 1998.[3]

[edit] Personal life

He was brought up in Bishop Sutton, attending the local primary school Chew Valley School. Andy now works as a mortgage advisor in Bath. He married Claire Richardson in June 2007, and they now live in Trowbridge.[4]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Andy Williams player profile (HTML). nonleaguedaily.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
  2. ^ Past players (HTML). Bath City Football Club. Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
  3. ^ Wales - International Results 1990-1999 - Details (HTML). The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
  4. ^ "International footballer weds", Chew Valley Gazette, Sept 2007. Retrieved on 2007-09-04. 
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