Geraint Williams
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Geraint Williams | ||
| Date of birth | 5 January 1962 | ||
| Place of birth | Cwmparc, Wales | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Wales U21 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Treorchy and Cwmparc Boys Club | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1980–1985 | Bristol Rovers | 141 | (8) |
| 1985–1992 | Derby County | 277 | (9) |
| 1992–1998 | Ipswich Town | 217 | (3) |
| 1998–2000 | Colchester United | 39 | (0) |
| Total | 674 | (20) | |
| National team | |||
| 1988–1996 | Wales | 13 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2003 | Colchester United (caretaker) | ||
| 2006–2008 | Colchester United | ||
| 2009–2010 | Leyton Orient | ||
| 2012–2016 | Wales U21 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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David Geraint Williams, known as Geraint Williams (born 5 January 1962) is a Welsh football manager and former international footballer.
As a player, he was a defender from 1980 until 2000 for Bristol Rovers, Derby County, Ipswich Town and Colchester United. He also played for Wales where he was capped 13 times.
Williams was born in Cwmparc. He began his career with Bristol Rovers, where he made his first team debut in the 1980–81 season and remained with them until he joined Derby County on 29 March 1985 for £40,000. He had played 141 league games for the Pirates, scoring eight goals.
He helped Derby County win promotion to the Second Division in 1986 and to the First Division a year later, rarely missing a game for them in his seven years there. He contributed to their fifth place league finish (their best in over a decade) in 1989 but endured the disappointment of relegation back to the Second Division two years later. After failing to get them back into the top flight in 1992, he bade farewell to the Baseball Ground after seven years, 267 league games and 10 goals, when signing for Ipswich Town on 1 July 1992 for £650,000. Ipswich had just been promoted to the new FA Premier League as champions of the Second Division.
Ipswich did reasonably well in 1992–93, having the longest unbeaten start in the new Premier League and being fourth as late on as February, sparking hopes that Ipswich could win the league title. However, a run of bad results dragged them down to 16th place in the final table. They only narrowly avoided relegation a year later, as the 1993–94 campaign had brought a similar pattern to the previous one – a good start followed by a slump. Ipswich were finally relegated in 1994–95, winning just seven games and conceding 92 goals (including a 9–0 demolition by Manchester United in March 1995). Williams remained with them for three more seasons after relegation, finally departing on a free transfer in the summer of 1998 after 227 league games and three goals for the Tractor Boys.
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