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Key facts
- 1985
- England Youth
- 2017
- Granada
- Full name
- Tony Alexander Adams
- Date of birth
- ( 1966-10-10 ) 10 October 1966 (age 59)
- Place of birth
- Romford , Greater London, England
- Height
- 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
- Position
- Centre-back
- 1980 1983
- Arsenal
- Years
- Team
- 1983 2002
- Arsenal
- 1983 1984
- England U17
- 1985 1986
- England U21
- 1989 1990
- England B
- 1987 2000
- England
- 2003 2004
- Wycombe Wanderers
- 2008 2009
- Portsmouth
- 2010 2011
- Gabala
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tony
- Family name
- Adams
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London Borough of Havering
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 2000
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- England men's national association football team
- Position played
- centre-back
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- England
- Mass
- 83
- Image
- Tony Adams 2017 portrait (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 191
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- date of birth
- 1966-10-10
- birth name
- Tony Alexander Adams
- coach of sports team
- Wycombe Wanderers F.C.
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- end of work period
- 2002-00-00
- different from
- Tony Adams
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 2
- total goals in career
- 0
- social media followers
- 101657
- name in native language
- Tony Adams
- Commons category
- Tony Adams
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Encyclopedic overview
Tony Alexander Adams (born 10 October 1966) is an English former football player and manager. Adams played for Arsenal and England, captaining both. Known as "Mr. Arsenal", he spent his entire playing career of 19 years as a centre-back there, making 672 total appearances and winning four English league titles. He is considered one of Arsenal's greatest-ever players and is also included in the Football League 100 Legends.
With Arsenal, uniquely he captained a title-winning team in three different decades, won three FA Cups, two Football League Cups, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and two FA Community Shields. Adams is one of six people honoured with a statue outside the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal's home ground. He won 66 caps for England between 1987 and 2000 and played at four major tournaments.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tony Adams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.