Ian Wiles

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Ian Wiles
Personal information
Full name Ian Robert Wiles [1]
Date of birth (1980-04-28) 28 April 1980 (age 43) [1]
Place of birth Woodford, London, England [2]
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) [2]
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Colchester United
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1998–2001 Colchester United 1 (0)
2001 Heybridge Swifts
2001–2003 Chelmsford City 83 (3)
Welling United
Heybridge Swifts
Braintree Town
AFC Hornchurch
Heybridge Swifts
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ian Robert Wiles (born 28 April 1980) is an English footballer who plays as a defender, most recently for Heybridge Swifts. Wiles has played in the Football League for Colchester United.

Career

Born in Woodford, London, Wiles came through the youth ranks at Colchester United, performing well enough to earn a professional contract for the 1998–99 season. [2] He made his only professional appearance as an 89th-minute substitute for Paul Abrahams in a 4–2 away win against Wrexham on 15 August 1998. [3] [4] Wiles made the bench a few more times but failed to break into the first-team under Mick Wadsworth and was released in 2001. [2]

Wiles joined Heybridge Swifts for the first of three spells with the club in their Isthmian League Cup winning season of 2000–01. He later spent two years with Chelmsford City before a stint with Conference South side Welling United. He then returned to Heybridge for a second stint [2] but left once again in May 2008, joining Braintree Town and AFC Hornchurch before returning for a final time to the Swifts in December 2008. [5] He departed the club in February 2009. [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Colchester United – Player profile". Coludata.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Whitehead, Jeff; Drury, Kevin (2008). The Who's Who of Colchester United: The Layer Road Years. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 249. ISBN   978-1-85983-629-3.
  3. ↑ "Colchester United – Match details – Wrexham 2–4 Colchester Utd". Coludata.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "COLCHESTER UNITED:1950/51–1989/90 & 1992/93–2011/12". Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Heybridge: Wiles back with the Swifts – This is Essex". This is Essex. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  6. ↑ "Ian Wiles – Heybridge Swifts Football Club". Pitchhero – Heybridge Swifts Football Club. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  7. ↑ "Players – HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS – Heybridge Swifts". Heybridge Swifts FC. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
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