Nathan Jones (Welsh footballer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Nathan Jones (Welsh footballer)

Welsh association football player and manager

Date of Birth: 28-May-1973

Place of Birth: Rhondda, Wales, United Kingdom

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Nathan Jones (Welsh footballer)

  • Nathan Jason Jones (born 28 May 1973) is a Welsh professional football manager and former player who played as a left back or midfielder. Jones began his career with Football Conference club Merthyr Tydfil before joining Luton Town in the summer of 1995.
  • He became homesick at Luton so took an opportunity to move to Spain with Badajoz and then Numancia and returned to England with Southend United in 1997.
  • Jones spent three seasons at Roots Hall which included a brief loan spell with Scarborough 1999.
  • He moved on to Brighton & Hove Albion in 2000 and was part of the team that won three promotions in five years.
  • He joined Yeovil Town in 2005 where he spent seven seasons in League One making over 200 appearances. Whilst at Yeovil Jones began taking his coaching badges, spending time as first-team coach of Yeovil Town Ladies and later player-assistant manager of the first team.
  • He left Yeovil in 2012 and joined Charlton Athletic as their under-21 professional development coach, a role which he held for one season.
  • He returned to Brighton as a member of the coaching staff to Óscar García, Sami Hyypiä and Chris Hughton.
  • Jones left Brighton in January 2016 to take over as manager of League Two club Luton Town.
  • He guided the Hatters to the League Two play-offs in 2016–17 losing out to Blackpool but earned promotion to League One in 2017–18 finishing in 2nd place.
  • With Luton on course for a second consecutive promotion Jones left in January 2019 for Championship club Stoke City.
  • His time at Stoke was ultimately unsuccessful and he was subsequently sacked in November 2019.

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