Matt Crowell
Matthew Thomas " Matty " Crowell ( born July 3, 1984 in Bridgend ) is a Welsh footballer.
Club career
Crowell was considered one of the greatest Welsh talent in his year and played in the youth department of Swansea City, before it was piloted in the summer of 2000 by Malcolm Elias, the former head of the youth center of Swansea City FC for Southampton. Southampton had to pay in the event of emergency operations team of professionals, this sum could increase to up to £ 500,000 for the change order of the Football League a compensation of £ 100,000. Crowell got shortly after his 17th birthday, a professional contract with Southampton, not made the breakthrough in the first team, however, and remained until his departure in the summer of 2003 without competitive match for the first team. After a trial with Bristol Rovers, he returned to Wales and joined the active in the English league system AFC Wrexham, in the third-tier Football League Second Division took at that time.
After his league debut for Wrexham in August 2003, he started from March 2004 in the team to establish a development that was interrupted by a suffered in pre-season ankle injury first. Only in the second half of the 2004/05 season he was once again to the permanent staff and won with the team with a 2-0 success after extra time over Southend United Football League the Trophy. Already at that time, Wrexham was in serious financial trouble and eventually had to apply for insolvency proceedings to which the club were deducted ten points, which eventually were missing for relegation at the end of the season.
The 2005/06 season in the Football League Two for Crowell began with injury problems, a knee injury was not until the end of October his season debut, after he again firmly established itself as the two fight strong player in central midfield of Wrexham. After he had lost his place in November 2006, he was injured again in early January at the knee and could not take part in the second round. His expiring contract was extended by coach Brian Carey for six months until the end of 2007, to provide to give Crowell the chance to prove his form and fitness. Although he came in the following months to 15 league operations, Carey's successor, Brian Little, however, submitted Crowell no new contract offer and more so its time ended at Wrexham after 107 missions and scored five goals in December 2007.
A new club he was held in January 2008 with the fifth-tier Northwich Victoria. In 18 months Crowell completed 56 missions League and in 2008 /09 team internally honored as player of the year, but then left the financially troubled club. During the summer break, he completed a trial in Australia at the Central Coast Mariners, a contract was, however, due to contractual obligations Crowell with FC Altrincham initially tion states do not. Only after he broke his contract in September 2009 with Altrincham again, a change in the Australian A-League to the Mariners was possible, who provided Crowell with a one- year contract. After a mixed season with the Mariners, missed the a place in the play-offs, he joined in the summer of 2010, again at the Altrincham FC. He remained there only until October 2010, and then played the year on the contract -free base for the Farnborough FC in the Conference South.
In July 2011, Crowell was with Port Talbot Town in the League of Wales a new club, in September 2011, he moved to Galicia with the Spanish fourth division team CD Ourense, but returned in July 2012 back to Port Talbot Town.
National
Crowell played for the Welsh national student, was captain of the U-15 national selection and went through the other junior national teams of the Welsh Football Association. In the U-21 National team, he made his debut in October 2003 against Serbia and Montenegro, a year later, he scored his second goal in the 1-0 win European Championship qualifier against Azerbaijan. His seventh and final U-21 countries Match of Crowell in May 2006 against Cyprus.