Welsh association football player

Daniel Ward ( born 22 June 1993 ) is a Welsh professional football player who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League golf club Leicester City and the Wales home team. Ward has besides previously played for Liverpool and Wrexham equally well as having loanword spells at Tamworth, Morecambe, Aberdeen and Huddersfield Town. He was first called up to the Welsh home team in 2013 and made his debut in 2016. He was region of their squad that reached the semi-finals of UEFA Euro 2016, and the final 16 of UEFA Euro 2020 .

Club career [edit ]

Wrexham [edit ]

Ward was born in Wrexham. [ 2 ] He is a product of the Wrexham Academy, signing for them as a 14-year-old in 2007. [ citation needed ] In the 2010–11 temper, Ward was concisely loaned out to fellow Conference Premier team Tamworth, making just one appearance in a league peer on 12 March 2011 in a 3–2 loss against Hayes & Yeading United. [ 4 ] He returned to Wrexham for the 2011–12 season and was promoted to the first gear team squad but only made it angstrom far as the bench on a handful of occasions. [ citation needed ]

liverpool [edit ]

On 30 January 2012, it was announced that Liverpool had signed Ward for a fee of around £100,000. [ 5 ] He was promptly promoted to the substitute team and featured in the 2011–12 NextGen Series where he played in the semi-finals. [ 6 ] Ward got his first call-up to the Liverpool senior police squad in a League Cup game against Swansea City on 31 October 2012 as an fresh substitute. [ 7 ] His adjacent senior visit up was n’t until 12 January 2014 for a Premier League bet on against Stoke City where Ward was deputising for the hurt Brad Jones. [ citation needed ] In March 2015, he was loaned to League Two side, Morecambe for one month. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] On 21 March 2015, he made his football league introduction in an away plot against Carlisle United. [ 10 ] By the end of the 2014–15 season, Ward had been Liverpool ‘s substitute goalkeeper in 23 of the club ‘s 58 games, taking his reckoning of team call-ups to 25. [ citation needed ] On 23 June 2015, Ward signed a new five-year sign at Liverpool, keeping him at the club until 2020. [ 11 ] A few days later, he was loaned to Scottish Premiership club Aberdeen. [ 12 ] He made his introduction for Aberdeen on 2 July 2015, against FK Shkëndija in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. [ 13 ] After the game, Aberdeen informed UEFA officials that Ward had been targeted by laser beams. [ 14 ]
On 10 January 2016, Liverpool cut curtly Ward ‘s loanword at Aberdeen and he returned after impressing with 13 uninfected sheets in all competitions for the Dons, making him a firm winnow darling. [ 15 ] On 17 April 2016, Ward made his debut for Liverpool against Bournemouth in position of Simon Mignolet, where Liverpool won 2–1. The Welshman was called into action on several occasions in the second gear half, denying King doubly before making a bang-up late write from Grabban ‘s close-range header. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] On 11 July 2016, he signed a season-long lend with Football League Championship side Huddersfield Town. [ 18 ] He made his competitive debut for the Terriers in their 2–1 gain over Brentford on 6 August 2016. [ 19 ] Ward played in the play-offs for promotion, saving a total of three penalties, including the all-important 5th penalty in the concluding against Reading, to help Huddersfield to promotion. [ 20 ] [ 21 ]

Leicester City [edit ]

On 20 July 2018, as the arrival of Alisson relegated him to fourthly option at Liverpool, Ward completed a move to fellow Premier League team Leicester City for around £12.5 million. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] He made his introduction on 28 August in the moment cycle of the EFL Cup, keeping a clean plane in a 4–0 win over Fleetwood Town. [ 24 ] A month later in the future round off, he saved three penalties in a gunfight gain at Wolverhampton Wanderers after keeping a uninfected sheet in a scoreless trace, and was praised by teammate Marc Albrighton. [ 25 ] Ward played only 14 times in his first three seasons at Leicester, and not at all in the league. [ 26 ]

Read more: EA Sports

International career [edit ]

Ward has represented Wales at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. He was capped three times for the under-19s and featured four times for the under-21s. [ citation needed ] He was called up to the aged team for the first clock time for a friendly match against Finland, and was an idle substitute in the 1–1 withdraw on 16 November 2013 at the Cardiff City Stadium. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] He made his elder debut as a half-time substitute for Wayne Hennessey in an external friendly against Northern Ireland on 24 March 2016, conceding from Craig Cathcart in a 1–1 draw at the like ground. [ 29 ] Ward was selected in Wales ‘ 23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016 and was handed his first start for his nation in his third cap in their opening game of the tournament, a 2–1 victory over Slovakia, after Hennessey suffered a rear spasm anterior to the meet. [ 30 ] Ward missed Wales ‘ participation in the 2018 China Cup when his pass got lost in the post during his visa application, and Michael Crowe was called up in his place. [ 31 ] In May 2021 he was selected for the Wales police squad for the delay UEFA Euro 2020 tournament. [ 32 ] Having held down the starting place since Hennessey ‘s second joint strain in November 2020, Ward played all of Wales ‘s matches at the tournament, being knocked out in the last 16 by his Leicester teammate Kasper Schmeichel ‘s Denmark. [ 26 ] [ 33 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 27 October 2021

International [edit ]

As of match played 16 November 2021[45]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team
Year
Apps
Goals

Wales

2016
3
0

2017
1
0

2018
1
0

2019
2
0

2020
3
0

2021
14
0

Total
24
0

Honours [edit ]

Liverpool
Huddersfield Town
Leicester City

References [edit ]

  • Danny Ward profile at the Liverpool F.C. website