Nigel Vaughan

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Nigel Vaughan
Personal information
Full name	Nigel Mark Vaughan
Date of birth	May 20, 1959 (1959-05-20) (age 49)
Place of birth	Caerleon, Wales
Playing position	Midfield
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1976-1983 1983-1987 1986-1987 1987-1990 1990-1992	Newport County Cardiff City → Reading (loan) Wolverhampton Wanderers Hereford United	224 (32) 149 (42) 005 0(1) 093 (10) 013 0(1)
National team
	Wales	010 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Nigel Mark Vaughan (born 20 May 1959 in Caerleon) is a former Wales international footballer. He gained ten international caps during his career.

[edit] Career

Vaughan began his career at Newport County where he played over 200 hundred games for the club. In September 1983 he joined Cardiff City as part of a five man swap deal between the two clubs at both of these teams he was relegated . Cardiff players John Lewis, Tarki Micallef and Linden Jones joined Newport in exchange for Vaughan and Karl Elsey moving the other way. He made his debut for the Bluebirds in a 3-0 home defeat against Barnsley and went on to not miss a game for the rest of the season. He finished as top scorer for Cardiff in the next two seasons but couldn't stop them from suffering two relegations in the two years and dropping down to division four.

Not wanting to play division four football he left Cardiff to join Wolverhampton Wanderers for £12,000 and made his debut for Wolves against Cardiff when he came off the bench to score in a 3-2 win for the Bluebirds. He later moved on to play for Hereford United

In June 2006 he was appointed head of youth development at Shrewsbury Town where he has overseen the development of players such as local boy and Wales international David Edwards, and now Manchester City, and England Goalkeeper Joe Hart.