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Kyle Nix
Personal information
Full name Kyle Ashley Nix
Date of birth (1986-01-21) 21 January 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Sydney, Australia
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
2000–2002 Manchester United
2002–2005 Aston Villa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2006 Sheffield United 0 (0)
2006 → Barnsley (loan) 0 (0)
2006 Buxton 6 (0)
2007 Parkgate ? (0)
2007–2009 Bradford City 56 (6)
2009–2011 Mansfield Town 48 (5)
2011–2012 Gateshead 8 (0)
2012 Tamworth 11 (0)
2012 UR La Louvière 0 (0)
2013–2014 Chiangrai United 26 (5)
2014 Bentleigh Greens 3 (0)
2015 Customs United 9 (4)
2015 PTT Rayong 28 (2)
Total 195 (22)
International career
2001–2002 England U16 6 (0)
2004 England U18 1 (0)
2005 England U20 1 (0)
2009
England C
 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kyle Ashley Nix (born 21 January 1986) is an Australian-born English former footballer and coach who played as a midfielder.

Nix was born in Sydney, Australia to English parents and moved to England at an early age. Nix started his football career with the youth teams at Manchester United and Aston Villa, before he joined Sheffield United. He had a loan spell with Barnsley, but left Sheffield to join non-league Buxton.[2][3] He played seven games for Buxton during the 2006–07 season, before he joined Parkgate where he spent the remainder of the season.

He joined

semi-professional
levels.

Early life

Nix was born in Sydney, Australia, while his father, Peter, was playing football there. Peter had been a left winger, whose own professional career included 22 league games for Rotherham United. When the family returned to Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Nix started his own football career.[4] Nix's brother Korey is also a footballer.[5]

Club career

Early career

Nix started his football career in England as a youth player for

substitute.[9][10] His only other appearance for Sheffield United also came as a substitute in the League Cup against Reading.[9]

Towards the end of the

Sheffield and Hallamshire Senior Cup semi-final defeat to Stocksbridge Park Steels.[15]

Bradford City

In summer 2007, he was offered a short-term deal with League Two side Bradford City following a successful trial, teaming back up with Stuart McCall, who Nix knew from his days at Sheffield United.[16] He made his Bradford debut against Wolverhampton Wanderers in a League Cup game scoring his first senior goal.[16] His league debut came three days later in the first league game to be played at Shrewsbury Town's new ground the New Meadow.[17][18] He was offered a longer-term deal at City,[17] before becoming a regular first team player. His first league goal was a long-range equaliser as Bradford drew 1–1 with Chesterfield on 8 December 2007 before he added a second in successive games in a 2–1 defeat to Peterborough United.[19][20] His goals helped to win him a contract extension in January until the end of the 2007–08 season.[21] Later that month he improved his run of goals by scoring in three successive matches to help Bradford to five points from three games within the space of eight days.[22][23][24] Nix stayed in the team for the remainder of the season,[25] but it was not until April that he scored again, with a long-range volley against Brentford, as he bid for a new contract for the 2008–09 season.[26] On 29 April 2008, Nix was offered a new deal,[27] which he signed the following week to remain at Bradford for another season.[28]

Nix started Bradford's first two games of the 2008–09 season in place of Joe Colbeck,[29][30] who was suspended following a red card against Milton Keynes Dons at the end of the previous campaign.[31] However, when Colbeck was available again, Nix was dropped to the substitutes' bench, with new signing Paul McLaren partnering Lee Bullock, who had returned from injury, in central midfield.[32] Nix struggled for form but was also playing with an ankle injury, which eventually forced him to take a hospital scan in November. He was one of six club midfielders to be injured at the time.[33] He returned to action later that month as a second-half substitute against his father's former team Rotherham United, at the Don Valley Stadium.[34] However, he struggled to hold down a regularly place in the side because of new midfielders signed during the course of the season, and he was released at the end of the campaign having played less than half the games that he played in his first year at City. Nix was offered the chance to return to Bradford by McCall if he could not find a new club but he rejected the invitation.[35]

Mansfield Town

Nix spent two weeks of summer on holiday in

Barrow.[41] Nix enjoyed a run of games in the first team and was described by manager David Holdsworth as one of the club's "best players" until he suffered an ankle injury, which required surgery at a hospital in Northallerton and kept him out of first-team action until the new year.[42][43] He returned to playing action for Mansfield reserves in late January and was back in the first team squad by the end of the month.[44] He made his comeback to the first team in a 3–1 defeat to Stevenage Borough at the start of February.[45] By the end of his first season with Mansfield, he had played 23 league games and scored twice.[46]

During the follow pre-season, Holdsworth allowed Nix to attend a trial with Dutch

Adam Smith moments after Mansfield conceded an equaliser in a 1–1 draw with Kettering Town.[51][52] His first start of the season came as Holdsworth made changes to personnel and formation for a game at Southport on 11 September. A 2–1 victory was Mansfield's third consecutive win.[53] Before the end of the month, he had scored his first goal of the month, during a 5–0 victory against York City which put Mansfield second in the table.[54]

At the end of his second season, Nix was one of five players to be released by Mansfield.[55]

Gateshead

During the summer, he had trials with fellow Conference side

Telford United at New Bucks Head.[59] Having started only two games in five months with Gateshead,[60] Nix was released when his contract expired on 24 January.[61]

Tamworth

On 14 February 2012, Nix joined Tamworth on a free transfer.[62] He made his debut on 3 March coming on as a second-half substitute for Chez Isaac in a 3–0 league defeat to Fleetwood Town.[63]

Chiangrai United

Following a brief spell at

open heart surgery.[64]

International career

Nix has appeared for various England youth international teams including

England C team, which is the team which represents England at non-league level. He was one of three Mansfield players, along with Louis Briscoe and Scott Garner, to play in a 1–1 with Hungary on 15 September 2009.[68] He was called back up for the England C team by manager Paul Fairclough a year later.[69]

Nix also holds an Australian passport, which he picked up in summer 2008, when he returned to the country for the first time since he left as a youngster in order to coach at

Mitchelton Football Club.[70] It enables him to play for the Australian side, a dream Nix wanted to pursue during his professional career.[47]

Coaching career

Nix runs a football coaching business alongside his two brothers in

Queensland, Australia.[64]

Personal life

Nix holds an Australian passport. On 2 June 2014, Nix was reported missing by his family after leaving his home in Rotherham in the early hours of the morning.[71] He was found safe and well by police later the same day.

Playing statistics

As of match played 28 April 2012.[1][2][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80]

Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Sheffield United 2005–06 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0
Barnsley (loan) 2005–06 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Buxton 2006–07 6 0 0 0 — 1 1 7 1
Parkgate 2006–07 ? ? ? ? — ? 1 ? 1
Bradford City 2007–08 40 6 2 0 1 1 1 1 44 8
2008–09 16 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 19 0
Total 56 6 3 0 2 1 2 1 63 8
Mansfield Town 2009–10 23 2 0 0 — 0 0 23 2
2010–11 25 3 2 0 — 5 0 32 3
Total 48 5 2 0 — 5 0 55 5
Gateshead 2011–12 8 0 2 0 — 0 0 10 0
Tamworth 2011–12 11 0 0 0 — 0 0 11 0
Career totals 129 11 7 0 4 1 8 3 148 15

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