Tyrone Mings

english association football player

Tyrone Deon Mings ( behave 13 March 1993 ) is an english professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Aston Villa and the England national team. Mings started his career playing non-League football with Yate Town, having previously been at the Southampton academy for eight years. He joined Southern League Premier Division clubhouse Chippenham Town in 2012. Mings signed for Ipswich Town in December 2012 and made his Football League debut on the final sidereal day of the 2012–13 season. He spent a further two seasons with Ipswich, before joining AFC Bournemouth in 2015, going on to make his Premier League debut in August 2015. He joined Aston Villa on loanword for the remainder of the 2018–19 season in January 2019, helping the club acquire promotion to the Premier League through the Championship play-offs. Mings signed permanently for Aston Villa in July 2019.

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Mings received his first call up to the aged England squad in August 2019. He made his senior debut in October 2019. In June 2021, Mings was selected for the England squad for the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament .

Club career [edit ]

early career [edit ]

Mings was born in Bath, Avon [ 5 ] to former non-League hitter Adie Mings. Mings joined Southampton in 2001 as an eight-year-old, but was released in 2009 when the young budget was axed. [ 6 ] After leaving Southampton, he attended Millfield school in Somerset for two years on a football eruditeness. After leaving school, Mings signed for non-League club Yate Town in Gloucestershire. In the summer of 2012, he considered quitting football before finally signing for Southern League Premier Division baseball club Chippenham Town, representing the town he grew up in. [ 7 ] Mings combined his non-League career with jobs as a bartender and a mortgage adviser. [ 8 ]

Ipswich Town [edit ]

Mings signed for Ipswich Town in December 2012 after a short trial for a tip of £ 10,000 and an agreement for Ipswich to play a pre-season friendly bet on against Chippenham. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] On 4 May 2013, Mings made his debut for Ipswich on the last day of the 2012–13 season against Burnley. [ 9 ] He went into the 2013–14 temper as the back up left-back behind Aaron Cresswell, although he did start the open game of the season ascribable to Cresswell ‘s suspension. On 4 January 2014, Mings started an FA Cup affiliation against Preston North End at right-back rather of his usual left-back function. [ 10 ] He made 18 appearances during the season, making 6 starts and 12 alternate appearances. [ 11 ]
Following Aaron Cresswell ‘s transmit to West Ham United in July 2014, Mings was handed the number 3 shirt. Because of this, Mings offered to purchase modern shirts for two fans who had bought shirts with his old number 15 printed on the rear. [ 12 ] On transmit deadline day in summer 2014, Mings was the national of a £3 million invite from Crystal Palace which was rejected by Ipswich. On 20 September 2014, Mings signed a newly three-year contract with Ipswich. [ 13 ] Mings started the 2014–15 season as the starting left-back, starting on the opening day of the season in a 2–1 gain against Fulham. He continued to feature as a key share of the team throughout the season. On 10 October 2014, Mings won the Championship Player of the Month award for September. [ 14 ] He scored his first goal for the cabaret on 24 February 2015, netting the opening goal in a 4–2 home gain over Birmingham City at Portman Road. [ 15 ] Mings made 44 appearances in all competitions over the course of the temper, scoring once, helping Ipswich to reach the Championship play-offs. [ 16 ]

AFC Bournemouth [edit ]

On 26 June 2015, Mings signed for newly promoted Premier League cabaret AFC Bournemouth on a four-year contract for an undisclosed tip, reported to be £8 million. [ 17 ] Mings made his Premier League debut for Bournemouth on 29 August 2015 in a 1–1 draw with Leicester City. however, he suffered a knee injury six minutes after coming on as a half-time utility. [ 18 ] On 3 September 2015, it was confirmed that Mings ‘ injury would mean that he would be sidelined for between 9 and 12 months. [ 19 ] He made his comeback in a 3–0 kill to Millwall in the third round of the FA Cup on 7 January 2017. [ 20 ] On 8 March 2017, Mings was banned by the FA for five matches following an alleged pigeonhole on Zlatan Ibrahimović in a match against Manchester United on the previous weekend. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ]

Aston Villa [edit ]

On 31 January 2019, Mings joined Aston Villa on loan for the stay of the season. [ 24 ] He made his Villa debut on 2 February against Reading. The meet was the subject of controversy following an incident where Mings stepped on the confront of Reading forward Nélson Oliveira after a muss for the testis. Oliveira was forced off with deep gashes to his frontal bone and nose. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Mings former apologised, insisting that it was not intentional. [ 28 ] As referee Geoff Eltringham had seen the incident and determined that it was accidental, no retrospective action was taken. [ 29 ] Mings scored his inaugural Aston Villa goal in his moment crippled, on 8 February 2019. He scored in the 82nd hour of the home game against Sheffield United. At that point, Aston Villa had been losing 3–0, but they went on to complete a belated comeback to draw the game 3–3. [ 30 ] Despite Villa ‘s poor run of form at that time, Mings was a standout performer and quickly became a winnow favorite despite only recently arriving from Bournemouth. Villa had a change in form after the retort of Jack Grealish from injury, during which Villa picked up a 10-game winning streak, in the fifth of which Mings scored the winning goal in a 2–1 winnings over Blackburn Rovers. [ 31 ] On 27 May 2019, Mings played in the 2018–19 EFL Championship Play-off Final, where he helped Villa to defeat Derby County 2–1, and acquire promotion to the Premier League. [ 32 ] Mings signed for Aston Villa permanently on 8 July 2019. [ 33 ] The tip was believe to be an initial £20million, with add-ons that could total £25million. [ 34 ] After the united kingdom politics announced resumption of sports and Premier League announced the return of teams as part of “ Project Restart “ from 17 June, Mings claimed that the players were the final to be consulted and were lone treated as “ commodities in the game ”. [ 35 ]

International career [edit ]

american samoa good as being eligible for England, Mings was besides eligible for Barbados through his parental grandparents. [ 38 ] His beget Adie turned down a call-up from Barbados during his own playing career. [ 39 ] Mings received his first England call-up in August 2019 when he was announced as depart of the police squad for the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers against Bulgaria and Kosovo. [ 40 ] Mings earned his beginning senior England cap, in a 0–6 succeed away to Bulgaria, in October 2019, playing the entire match. The match was overshadowed by racist chants from bulgarian fans, which was reported by Mings to captain Harry Kane who then reported it to the referee. This activated standard UEFA protocol, which largely put a break to the tone. [ 41 ] In June 2021, Mings was selected for the England team for the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament. [ 42 ] He started the first step group match of the tournament, helping England keep a clean sheet in a 1–0 win against Croatia on 13 June at Wembley. [ 43 ] He besides started the following match against Scotland on 18 June, again helping England keep a clean sheet in a 0–0 draw. [ 44 ] He came on as a second-half substitute in the final group meet in a 1–0 win against the Czech Republic on 22 June, as England finished peak of Group D, qualifying for the knockout stages as a solution. [ 45 ] Following England ‘s frustration on penalties in the final examination to Italy, three England players Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka suffered on-line racist misuse after they had missed in the gunfight. Home Secretary Priti Patel tweeted that she was “ disgusted ” by it. Mings then replied to her on chirrup accusing her of encouraging the racist behavior of supporters after she had previously denounced the players ‘ anti-racism message of taking the knee ahead kick-off as “ gesticulate politics ”, and that supporters had a right to boo it. [ 46 ] Mings ‘ full pinch read : “ You do n’t get to stoke the fire at the begin of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics ‘ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we ‘re campaigning against, happens. ” [ 47 ] On 15 November 2021, Mings scored his first international goal, in a 10–0 away 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification victory over San Marino. [ 48 ]

personal liveliness [edit ]

Mings is the son of Adie Mings, a erstwhile striker with non-League Bath City and Gloucester City who presently works as a lookout for Chelsea. [ 49 ] Off the field, Ipswich Town ‘s Supporters ‘ Club praised Mings for his charitable works. [ 50 ] He spent Christmas Day 2013 feeding homeless people [ 51 ] and when he was given the number three shirt by Ipswich at the beginning of the 2014–15 season, he replaced the shirts of fans who had already bought ones with his old count on the back. [ 12 ] Mings started his own youth footballing academy called The Tyrone Mings Academy that is based in Birmingham, England. It is aimed at children aged 6 to 16. [ 52 ] Outside of football, Mings has a business interest in an department of the interior design company in Bournemouth. [ 53 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 5 December 2021

International [edit ]

As of match played 15 November 2021[63]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team
Year
Apps
Goals

England

2019
2
0

2020
5
0

2021
9
1

Total
16
1

As of match played 15 November 2021

England score listed first, score column indicates score after each Mings goal[63]

Honours [edit ]

Aston Villa
England
Individual

References [edit ]

Profile at the Aston Villa F.C. website
Profile at the Football Association website
Tyrone Mings – UEFA competition record (archive)