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Matthew Jones

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Born
1980 (43 years old)

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Llanelli, Wales

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Centre Midfielder

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180 cm

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Matthew Jones (born 1 September 1980 in Llanelli, Wales) is a Welsh former international footballer. He made his professional debut in the Premier League for Leeds United and played his last professional game for his home town club Llanelli in the Welsh Premier League. He has played centre-midfield for most of his career, though sometimes appeared at right back. He formerly played for Leeds United and Leicester City with an early ending loan spell at Nottingham forest. Matt has since coaching at the Swansea City football academy where he started his journey playing for the Swansea signets & centre of excellence back in 1990. Matt is currently the manager of Wales U18s team. He has 4 children.

Jones was born in Llanelli, Wales and joined the Leeds United Youth Academy in 1994 at the age of 14. Unable to establish himself as a first team regular he transferred to Leicester City in December 2000 for a fee of £3.5million. He scored one league goal, in a 2–1 home defeat to Middlesbrough on 17 September 2001.

Intended to be a replacement for Neil Lennon at Leicester City, manager Peter Taylor hailed Jones as the new Lennon, but his time with Leicester was littered with injuries. He spent a year out with a knee ligament injury received when tackling Gary McAllister in Liverpool's 1–0 win against Leicester in January 2002. In August 2003 he trained with Nottingham Forest, but on his return to Leicester three weeks later was ruled out, initially for four further months, with a back injury.

After numerous operations in a bid to recover Jones decided to retire in 2004 at the age of 23. His last international game for Wales was a 2–0 away defeat to USA in May 2003, receiving a red card during his 13th appearance.