Jacques Williams

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Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football biography Jacques Roger Williams (born 25 April 1981) is an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Birmingham City in the Football League.

Football career

Williams was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, and raised in France.[1] He started his football career in the youth system at Bordeaux, and played for the Bordeaux junior side which won the French under-18 championship.[2] At the age of 18 he came to England with fellow French youngster Trésor Luntala for trials with Birmingham City, and both players signed on free transfers before the 1999–2000 season.[1] Williams was on standby for the England under-18 match against Switzerland in September 1999, but an ankle problem prevented his taking part,[3] and he was named in the preliminary squad for European Under-18 Championship qualifiers in October but remained unused.[4][5] He made his first-team debut for Birmingham in August 2000, playing once in the League Cup and then three First Division matches, but his development was interrupted by the need for a double hernia operation.[6] Though he recovered sufficiently to resume playing reserve team football, scoring the goals which put the team into the semifinal of the Birmingham Senior Cup,[7] a spate of injuries meant that those four games were all he played for Birmingham's first team before being released when his contract expired.[2]

He had a trial at Crewe Alexandra, on the recommendation of former assistant manager Brian Eastick, then academy director at Birmingham,[8] but no contract ensued.

He joined Conference club Scarborough for the 2003–04 season, but sustained a broken rib and punctured lung in only his second game, complications from which meant a prolonged stay in hospital and three months out of football.[9][10] Returning to action in November 2003, he played a further ten league games,[11] but was only an unused substitute in the club's FA Cup fourth round match against Premier League club Chelsea,[12] despite scoring and hitting the post in the preceding league game.[13] He then injured an ankle,[14] and was released at the end of the season.[15]

He spent the 2005–06 season with Belgian Second Division club Excelsior Virton for whom he made three substitute appearances.[16]

In August 2006 he had a trial with Brighton & Hove Albion, scoring in an 11–0 rout of French amateur side Racing Club Port du Havre and making a promising substitute appearance in a 2–0 defeat against Le Havre AC,[17][18] but manager Mark McGhee decided against signing him.[19]

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