Midfielder "Arsenal" Aaron Ramsey: biography and personal life

As part of London "Arsenal" serves a large number of representatives of their national teams. One of them - the Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey, who for the past 9 seasons, defended the colors of "Arsenal".

Welsh First

Aaron James Ramsey was born December 29, 1990 in the Welsh town of Caerphilly. At the age of eight, his parents brought him to the football section at the club "Cardiff City," which in 2006 and made his debut a talented midfielder, becoming the youngest player in team history. Despite the small number of games for the team from Wales, due to a confident game for the youth team, Aaron made sure that he wanted to see several teams of the English Premier League.

But "Cardiff City" rejected all proposals, keeping the midfielder for another year. As a result, in 2008, played in 22 meetings this season, Ramsey went to London "Arsenal", which is laid out for him 5 million pounds, which is 5 times more than the amount that "Everton" proposed a year earlier.

Moving to London

August 13, 2008 held a grand debut of midfielder for the London club. In the match of the Champions League in the starting lineup, "Gunners" came Aaron Ramsey. "Arsenal", who met with the Dutch "Twente", finally won the confidence and the Welshman began his long road as a part of one of the best teams in Europe. Two months later, rookie Londoners opened the scoring his goal, and once again start to become a reference of the Champions League game - in the confrontation with the Turkish "Fenerbahce" midfielder put an end to the match - 2: 5. The first season of midfielder "targeting" to the base, having played only 22 meetings in all competitions. But the very next year, Arsene Wenger has included the player in the main cage regularly trusting him a place in the starting lineup. And Aaron Ramsey mentor did not disappoint - the championship three times, he was able to score a goal and make an assist, so that the team won the bronze medal of the Premier League.

The year 2010 was for the midfielder one of the most unpleasant - in the February match against the "Stoke City" in a skirmish with a rival defender Shawcross, Ramsey was seriously injured - an open leg fracture. Back to training the player could only in the late autumn of that year. As a result, he got to the former form, the coaching staff twice sent midfielder for rent - first in "Nottingham Forest" and then in his native "Cardiff City". In the last part of Ramsey was able to recover from injury in the physical plane, and even the Welsh club would like to extend the rental agreement, but "Arsenal" has refused.

In the first season after his return, in spite of the psychological problems due to an old injury, Ramsey has demonstrated excellent game once again become one of the key players on the team. As a result, currently in an active midfield 284 meetings for the "Arsenal", in which he scored 45 goals and 42 assists marked. As part of the "Gunners" Aaron became a double winner of the Cup and Super Cup in England.

to play for

Since 2005, Aaron Ramsey is regularly summoned to the national team at various levels. For the main national team midfielder spent the first match of November 19, 2008, becoming one of the youngest debutant in the history of Wales. After just a year the football player opened the scoring his goals, scoring gates in Liechtenstein in the qualifying cycle for the European Championship.

In addition to the qualifying rounds with a record player so far only one major tournament - 2016 European Championship. As part of the continental championship Ramsey participated in 5 meetings, scoring only once, and 5 more times assisted teammate have contributed to the passage of the national team to the semi-finals of the competition, where Wales lost to future champion - Portugal, with himself Aaron in this match did not participate, will miss the game because of two "mustard plaster".

Life

Welsh midfielder is very young - he is now just 26 years, so many fans interested in football, whether married Aaron Ramsey. Personal life midfielder "Arsenal" is known - during his school years, the player met his future wife, Colleen. They met for over 5 years, and in the early summer of 2014 the happy couple to celebrate a wedding.

Despite the slimness of both spouses, one of the passions they have is the food - the two are able to perfectly prepare any culinary delights, especially the cakes. Colleen previously worked as a model, but in November 2015 she gave birth to a son and now deals only with household chores.