Nathaniel Clyne

Nathaniel Edwin Clyne ( born April 5, 1991, London) is an English football player who is under contract with FC Southampton since 2012.

Playing career

Crystal Palace (2008 -)

Nathaniel Clyne made ​​his debut on 18 October 2008 in the Football League Championship 2008/ 09 for his hometown club Crystal Palace. In the course of the season he played another twenty-five league games and finished the championship with his team on the fifteenth place in the table. In the following two seasons, he established himself as a regular player, but reached with Palace only a place in the bottom third of the table. Thanks to above-average performance in the Football League Championship 2011/ 12 of the 21 -year-old Clyne was elected in April 2012 into the PFA Team of the Year the second division. Previously, he has already received the award for player of the month October 2011.

England national team

Between September 8, 2009 and July 27, 2010 Nathaniel Clyne played nine caps for the English U-19 national team. From 18 to 30 July 2010, he took part in the England U-19 European Football Championships 2010 in France and played in all four games before England failed to Spain in the semi-finals with 1:3.

On November 10, 2011, he made ​​his debut in the English U-21 national team in a 5-0 home win over Iceland.