Adam Matthews

Matthews jersey from Cardiff City

Adam Matthews ( born January 13, 1992, Swansea ) is a Welsh footballer. The defender played since 2011 at Celtic in the Scottish Premier League, and for the Welsh national football team.

Club career

Adam Matthews was born in Swansea is the second largest city in Wales and attended as a teenager the Penyrheol Comprehensive School in Cardiff. At the age of 8 years Matthwes started at Cardiff City to play soccer, previously he played rugby for the Ospreys in Swansea. In Cardiff he went through the entire youth, before the Football League Championship made ​​his professional debut against Blackpool FC in the season 2009/10. In the same season he was able to achieve also the first Profitor his career, in a 4-0 away win against FC Watford. At the end of the season Matthews came to Cardiff to the playoffs, where they lost against Blackpool FC in a penalty shootout. The following season he won with his team against FC Reading and was unable to return to the playoffs prevail. In February 2011, the defender with Celtic from the Scottish Premier League had agreed to a contract from the new season. There he wrote for four years and is intended to replace, whose contract was not renewed Andreas Hinkel.

National

For Wales Matthews has been playing for the U- 17th For the A - team from Wales, he debuted at the Nations Cup in 2011 in the 1-3 defeat against Scotland, after he came into the game for Neal Eardley.