Tim Lees

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Tim Lees
Personal information
Full name Timothy Martin Lees
Date of birth (1986-01-24) 24 January 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Billinge[disambiguation needed], England
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1996-1999 Everton
1999-2000 Bolton Wanderers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004– Atherton Collieries[1]
2006 Stalybridge Celtic 29 (8)
-2007 Leek Town 12 (2)
2008–2009 Wingate and Finchley 41 (9)
2009– AFC Hayes 27 (6)
Managerial career
2009-2010 Watford (Youth Coach)
2010-2014 Wigan Athletic (Youth Coach)
2014– Liverpool (coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10:51, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Timothy Martin Lees (born Billinge[disambiguation needed], 24 January 1986) is an English football player, football coach and football skills performer.

Football skills performer

Tim Lees finished second in the 2004 World Nike Freestyle Competition receiving 54,000 votes losing out convincingly to the Brazilian champion in Rio de Janeiro. He later appeared in the Channel 4 2006 TV series The Pepsi Max World Challenge, chosen from a pool of 17,000 UK entrants.[2] The series had a $100,000 prize for the winning team involving David Beckham, Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry and Alessandro Nesta. Lees has performed and choreographed several football commercials and advertisements.

Club career

Lees was released from Everton and Bolton Wanderers academies failing to make the grade as a youth player.[2] His recorded semi professional clubs include Stalybridge Celtic,[3] Leek Town, Maryland (USA),[4][5] Wingate & Finchley, AFC Hayes, Harlow Town [6] and Radcliffe Borough.[7]

Other career

Lees was chosen to represent England semi professional side at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, managed by Jamie Redknapp.[2][8] He was refused a work permit by Portuguese Vitoria Setubal after being recommended by ex-Portugal Internationals Dimas and Sao Pinto.

Coaching career

Lees worked at Watford[2] and Wigan Athletic's academies – the latter where we was, until August 2014, Youth Development Manager overseeing the coaching programmes and philosophy under Roberto Martinez.[2] In August 2014 he announced on his personal Twitter feed he would be leaving Wigan and was joining Liverpool as part of their Academy revamp.[9]

He is Academy Director of Soccer School UK, based in Warrington.[2]

Personal life

Lees has a BSc Hons in Sports Psychology at London Metropolitan University.

References

  1. http://www.rammyunited.co.uk/stats/matchdetails.php?id=200
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  9. https://twitter.com/timlees10/status/501116113103900672