Tony Alexander Adams MBE (born 10 October 1966) is an English football manager and former professional footballer. Adams played for Arsenal and England, captaining both teams. Adams spent his entire playing career of 19 years as a centre-back at Arsenal.
With Arsenal, he won four top-flight division titles, uniquely captaining a title-winning team in three different decades, three FA Cups, two Football League Cups, a UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, and two FA Community Shields.
A statue honouring Adams was unveiled at Emirates stadium on 9 December 2011, along with statues of Thierry Henry and Herbert Chapman. He won 66 caps for England between 1987 and 2000 and played at four major tournaments.
When his playing career finished Adams went into football management, spending periods in charge of Wycombe Wanderers, Portsmouth, Azerbaijani side Gabala and Spanish side Granada.
When did Tony Adams make his Arsenal debut?
5 November 1983
Adams signed for Arsenal as a schoolboy in 1980. He made his first-team debut on 5 November 1983 against Sunderland in the First Division, four weeks after his 17th birthday.
How many goals did Tony Adams score for Arsenal?
He scored 48 goals during his Arsenal career and plenty of vital ones. The header which beat Tottenham at Wembley in 1993 will live long in the memory and another huge leap accounted for Torino in the Cup Winners’ Cup Quarter-Final a year later. Adams was arguably at his peak during that European campaign.