Personal information | |||
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Full name | Akenhaton Carlos Edwards | ||
Date of birth | 24 October 1978 | ||
Place of birth | Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago | ||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
Playing position | Right-back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1996–1998 | Patna United | ||
1998 | Queen's Park CC | ||
1999–2000 | Defence Force | ||
2000–2005 | Wrexham | 165 | (23) |
2005–2007 | Luton Town | 68 | (8) |
2007–2009 | Sunderland | 50 | (5) |
2008 | → Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) | 6 | (0) |
2009–2014 | Ipswich Town | 166 | (9) |
2014 | → Millwall (loan) | 8 | (1) |
2014–2015 | Millwall | 8 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Millwall | 13 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
1999–2013 | Trinidad and Tobago | 86 | (4) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 04:02, 6 January 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:38, 3 September 2009 (UTC) |
Akenhaton Carlos Edwards CM (born 24 October 1978), known as Carlos Edwards, is a Trinidadian professional footballer who plays as a right-back. He started his footballing career in Trinidad and Tobago before moving to Wrexham in 2000 for whom he made over 150 appearances. He has had spells with Luton Town and Sunderland, and a brief loan period with Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Edwards has made over 80 appearances for the Trinidad and Tobago national football team, scoring four goals.
Edwards, a right-winger also adept at right-back, started his professional career at Defence Force in his native Trinidad and Tobago, where he had attended the same school (St Anthony's College in Westmoorings) as future team-mate Kenwyne Jones.
Edwards was later signed by Wrexham for £250,000 in 2000, along with Dennis Lawrence and Hector Sam, after a trial.
Edwards helped the club win promotion to the Second Division in 2002–03, scoring 10 goals and winning Wrexham's Player of the Year award and being selected for the PFA Third Division Team of the Year along the way. He then added a further five goals the following season as the club finished mid-table, with Edwards again voted into the PFA Team of the Year.