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Lewin Nyatanga
Personal information
Full name	Lewin Nyatanga
Date of birth	August 18, 1988 (age 18)
Place of birth	Burton upon Trent, England
Height	1.88 m
Playing position	Central defender
Club information
Current club	Barnsley (on loan from Derby County)
Number	5
Youth clubs
	Derby County
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2005– 2006-2007 2007	Derby County → Sunderland (loan) → Barnsley (loan)	28 (1) 11 (0) 07 (1)
National team2
2006–	Wales	010 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:30, 24 March 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 22:33, 28 March 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Lewin Nyatanga (born August 18, 1988) is a professional football defender who plays for Wales at international level. He currently on loan at Barnsley from Derby County.

Nyatanga qualifies for Wales through parentage, having been born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, to a Zimbabwean father and Welsh mother. His first team was Littleover Dazzlers, for whom he played as a youngster. Dazzlers teammates recall that Lewin was the kind of player who "wanted to take the corner and put the ball in the net". Having developed as a player through Derby County's academy, he signed professional forms for the club in August 2005. That month also saw him captain the Welsh Under-21 side prior to his seventeenth birthday, and make his Derby debut in a League Cup tie against Grimsby Town.

Since then Nyatanga has been a regular member of the Derby first team squad. On March 1, 2006, aged 17 years and 195 days, he made his full international debut for Wales in a friendly match against Paraguay in Cardiff, breaking Ryan Green's record as the youngest ever Welsh international. Despite his inexperience, with only 17 first team appearances for Derby behind him, he played "a key role" in the goalless draw. [1]

Wales' match against Trinidad and Tobago in May 2006 marked Nyatanga's second international appearance, and also saw his age record broken by 16 year old teammate Gareth Bale.

In 2006, Nyatanga won the Welsh Football Writers' Young Player of the Year award.

On 19 October 2006, Nyatanga moved on loan to Sunderland until January 2007. He returned to Derby on January 2nd.

Whilst at Sunderland, Nyatanga played left back due to injuries to Steven Wright and Clive Clarke leaving on loan. According to sources close to Roy Keane and Sunderland AFC, the club were interested in signing Lewin Nyatanga in a £1.5m move in January.

However, no bid has yet been tabled by Roy Keane and he has now joined Barnsley on loan until the end of the 2006-07 season.

• Official Sunderland FC Profile
• Lewin Nyatanga career stats at Soccerbase
• Lewin Nyatanga Profile at FootballDatabase

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