Capaldi: Anthony Charles (Tony)

2009-2010 (Leeds Player Details)(Player Details)

Left Back

Born: Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway: 12-08-1981

Debut v Kettering Town (a): 29-11-2009

6’0” 12st 0lb (2009)

Norwegian-born Irish international Capaldi was a product of the First Division Birmingham City’s Juniors and signed professional forms on 9th July 1999. He was loaned to Non-League Hereford United on 21st September 2001 for the rest of that season and made twelve League and two F.A. Cup appearances while at Edgar Street. He gained four caps and scored one goal for the Irish Under-Eighteens and had previously won caps at the Under-Sixteen and Fifteen levels. He left St Andrews, without figuring in their first team, for Second Division Plymouth Argyle on 3rd May 2003. He scored seven goals and made twenty-nine starts and four substitute appearances in Plymouth’s Second Division Championship-winning season of 2003-04. A broken leg caused him to miss the first half of the 2004-05 season but in his time at Home Park he scored twelve goals in one hundred and twenty-two starts and nineteen games from the bench. He also made four League Cup appearances and five starts and one game from the bench in the F.A. Cup and two substitute appearances in other games. He refused Argyle’s contract renewal offer and left them to join Cardiff City, on a Bosman transfer, and he signed a three year contract with the Welsh CCCL side on 1st July 2007. While he was at Plymouth he gained fourteen Irish Under-twenty-one caps and twenty-one of his twenty-two full Irish Caps. He started off as the regular Left Back at Ninian Park, but was replaced by Chris Gunter as his form slipped and it was not until Gunter had been transferred that he regained his first team spot. He finished up starting forty-three and coming off the bench once in the League and made four starts in the League Cup and played in all six games as Cardiff went all the way to Wembley in the F.A. Cup before going down to Portsmouth 0-1 in the Final. Injuries stopped his progress in 2008-09 and he was restricted to three League starts, one substitute appearance in the F.A. Cup and one start in the League Cup. 2009-10 was more of the same and he joined Leeds United on loan on 26th November 2009 until 4th January 2010. He made his Leeds United debut on 29th November 2009 in the Second Round F.A. Cup tie at Kettering Town. He returned to Cardiff City and added another nine League appearances to his record before he end of the 2009-10 season. He was released by Cardiff City at the end of his contract on 30th June 2010. He had played sixty-two games in the League, of which six were as a substitute and had started six F.A. Cup-ties as well as one from the bench, and had also started eight League Cup games. He had trials with several clubs in July 2010 including Crystal Palace and former club Plymouth Argle and then in September 2010 he had a trial with Hearts, all of which came to nothing. He signed a short-term contract with Morecambe, who were managed by his former Irish boss, Sammy McIlroy. He had a trial with Aberdeen in January 2011 but was not successful, and after six games, his contract with Morecambe was extended until the end of the season. He played eighteen games for Morecambe, including one as a substitute. He made remarks about the club's training methods in late March 2011 and did not play for the club again. At the end of his contract, in June 2011, he was signed by Oxford United on a free transfer on a two year contract.