Emma Jones (footballer, born 1982)
{{short description|Welsh footballer}}
{{for|the England-born Welsh footballer|Emma Jones (footballer, born 1994)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Emma Jones
| image = Emma jones.jpg
| caption = Emma Jones in 2006
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1982|08|21}}
| birth_place = Griffithstown, Wales
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| position = Defender
| currentclub = Cardiff City
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| years4 = 2003–2011
| years5 = 2011
| years6 = 2012–
| clubs1 = Newport Strikers
| clubs2 = Newport County
| clubs3 = Merthyr Tydfil
| clubs4 = Bristol Academy
| clubs5 = Liverpool Ladies
| clubs6 = Cardiff City
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| caps5 = 6
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| nationalyears1 = 2000–
| nationalteam1 = Wales
| nationalcaps1 = 60
| nationalgoals1 = 4
| club-update = 3 December 2011
| nationalteam-update = 17 April 2011
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Emma Louise Jones (born 21 August 1982){{cite web |title=Emma Jones |url=https://www.soccerdonna.de/en/emma-jones/profil/spieler_2937.html |work=Soccerdonna |access-date=16 May 2022}} is a footballer who plays for the Welsh national team and the women's section of Cardiff City FC. Jones plays as a central defender and has accumulated a half-century of caps for Wales.
Club career
Jones played for Newport Strikers, Newport County and Merthyr Tydfil prior to joining Bristol Rovers in 2003. The club changed its name to Bristol Academy two years later. Her nickname at the Gas Girls was "Vinnie".{{cite web |url=http://femalesocceracademy.publishpath.com/first-team-roster |title=First Team Squad |work=Bristol Academy Women's Football Club |accessdate=17 September 2010 |archive-date=30 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430133635/http://femalesocceracademy.publishpath.com/first-team-roster |url-status=dead }}
In the mid–season break of the 2011 FA WSL, Jones left Bristol to sign for Liverpool.{{cite web |url=http://www.bristolacademywfc.co.uk/matchesPreview/bristol_academy_ladies_v_lincoln_ladies_22_july_2011_preview.html |title=Great to be back |work=Bristol Academy Women's Football Club |accessdate=19 July 2011 |quote=Emma Jones has moved onto Liverpool which is a loss as Emma has been a great servant to the football club and is a player I would have liked to keep but we now wish her all the best at her new club. |archive-date=4 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004000257/http://www.bristolacademywfc.co.uk/matchesPreview/bristol_academy_ladies_v_lincoln_ladies_22_july_2011_preview.html |url-status=dead }}
In February 2012 Jones returned to Wales, signing for Cardiff City's affiliated women's team, who play in the South Wales League.{{cite news |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footballnation/football-news/2012/02/22/easy-victory-for-cardiff-city-ladies-91466-30377188/ |title=Easy victory for Cardiff City Ladies|work=Bristol Academy Women's Football Club |accessdate=9 February 2013|date=22 February 2012|first=Terry|last=Phillips}}
International career
Jones won six caps for Wales at U16 level and scored three goals in 15 games for the U18 team.{{cite web|url=http://www.faw.org.uk/teams/player/69|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006115604/http://www.faw.org.uk/teams/player/69|url-status=usurped|archive-date=6 October 2008|title=International Teams — Emma Jones|publisher=Football Association of Wales|accessdate=17 September 2010}} She made her senior debut, aged 17, in a 6–0 defeat to Belgium in March 2000.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/eur-women01.html|title=European Women Championship 2001|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|accessdate=17 September 2010|author=Bernd Timmermann|date=10 December 2003}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105102635/http://www.uefa.com/womensworldcup/teams/player=48131/index.html Emma Jones] at UEFA (Archive copy: 5 November 2013)
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321121951/http://www.faw.org.uk/teams/player/69 Emma Jones]}} at FAW (Archive copy: 21 March 2009)
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Category:Bristol Academy W.F.C. players
Category:Liverpool F.C. Women players
Category:Wales women's international footballers
Category:FA Women's National League players
Category:Women's Super League players
Category:Women's association football defenders
Category:Welsh women's footballers
Category:21st-century Welsh sportswomen
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