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Caleb Watts Tokyo 2020
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Caleb Watts

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Football

Age

22

Place of Birth

Hammersmith, ENGLAND

Olympic History

Tokyo 2020

Career Events

Football Men's 16-team Tournament

 

Caleb's Story

Fast Facts

Sport: Football
Event: Men's Football
Olympic History: Tokyo 2020
Coach: Graham Arnold
Year Born: 2002
State Born: Hammersmith, England

About Caleb

Caleb Watts is an English-born midfielder. With an Australian father and English mother, Watts had the choice of internationally representing either country.

Ultimately his decision to represent football for Australia came from the affinity he feels towards the country. Honouring his grandparents and father not only associates Watts with an unmatchable sense of national pride but extends his appreciation and devotion to Australia.

Watts’ football career started in the UK, playing with the Queens Park Rangers academy. In 2019 Watts was scouted by the Southampton Saints and signed a three-year professional contract. The same year Watts burst onto the stage at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil, representing Australia. Watts would advance through the Saints U-18's and U-23’s sides and become a staple of their Premier League 2 side.

2021 would prove to be Watts’ breakthrough season at Southampton. Where on the 16th of January, the same day as Watts’ 19th birthday, he was named amongst the substitutes when the Saints versed 2015/16 Champions Leicester City. Then a mere 72 hours later he made his Southampton senior debut in the prestigious FA Cup. His push to senior football culminated later that same month on the 26th of January, where Watts achieved a major footballing milestone in making his premier league debut. Coincidentally his debut was against Arsenal, the team he’d grown up a long-time supporter of. 

This debut made him the 52nd Australian representative to play in the premier league and the third  Australian to represent Southampton at that level. Caleb would then travel to Crawley Town and was put on loan to Morecambe FC, which further developed his skills and added to his senior appearances within the English football pyramid. 

Watts was part of the squad that travelled to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, featuring off the bench in all three of Australia’s matches which included the victory over 2022 World Cup champions Argentina.

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