Pearce: Tom Mark (Tom)

2013-Current (Leeds Player Details) (Player Details)

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Born: Ormskirk, Lancashire: 12-04-1998

Debut: Sheffield Wednesday (h): 17-03-2018

Height & Weight: Unknown

Pearce started his career at Everton youth academy before joining Leeds United's academy in 2014. He had five starts and opened his goal tally with one for the Leeds Under-Eighteens before the end of the 2013-14 season. He soon rose up through the ranks of the Leeds youth academy, finding the net three times in twenty-four starts in the 2014-15 season for the Under-Eighteens and starting twice and coming on as a substitute for the Under-Twenty-Ones. His progress continued in 2015-16 with eight goals from twenty starts and six games from the bench for the Under-Eighteens and one goal from one start and three games from the bench for the Under-Twenty-Ones. On 9th June 2016 he was given a professional contract and moved up to the Under-Twenty-Three Development squadIn 2016-17 he was with the Under-Twenty-threes and scored three times from twenty-two starts and two as a substitute. In 2017-18 his progress continued with two goals from eleven starts and eight from the bench. He was called up to the first team squad and sat on the bench on 7th January 2018 as United were eliminated from the F.A. Cup by the lowly Newport County. Thomas Christiansen called him into the first team squad for two consecutive fixtures in a 0-0 draw at Hull City on 30th January 2018 and then in the 1-4 home defeat by Cardiff City on 3rd February 2018. After Christiansen had departed his successor also showed his faith by calling him to the bench from the 2-2 draw in an away trip to Reading on 10th March 2018 and followed this one week later by his first team debut in a 1-2 home defeat by Sheffield Wednesday. He played seventy-seven minutes bfor being replaced by Jay-Roy Grot as Leeds chased the game. He was one of four players that were nominated on 16th April 2018 for the Leeds United's Young Player of The Year award. He was then picked in the squad for the next four games, but remained on the bench as United beat Bolton Wanderers at Elland Road by 2-1, lost 0-2 at Fulham, draw with Sunderland at Elland Road and went down 1-3 to Preston North End at Deepdale. He then played in the final four League games of the season, playing the full ninety minutes as they lost by the single goal to Aston Villa at Villa Park on 13th April 2018 and, on the 21st, in a 2-1 home win over Barnsley. It was in this game that he scored his first League goal when he opened the scoring in the seventeenth minute with a left-foot shot from long range. His display won him the "Man of the Match" award. He almost played a full game a week later in a 1-2 loss to Norwich City at Carrow Road, but he gave way seven minutes from time to Pierre-Michel Lasogga, as once more United chased the game late on. He played a full game in the final game on 6th May as United beat Queens Park Rangers at Elland Road. Both Bournemouth and his former club, Everton, showed interest in the young full back as his contract came close to its end in June 2018, but United started negotiations with him in May 2018 regarding a new contract and on 7th June 2018 he signed a new four year contract. On 18th May 2018 he had received a call up from England Under -Twenty-One coach Aidy Boothroyd to take part in the Toulon Tournament in France. England won the five match Tournament when they beat Mexico in the final at Stade Francis Turcan at Martigues on 9th June 2018. He made his debut in the first game on 26th May 2018 at the Stade de Lattre de Tassigny in Aubagne, coming on as a replacement for Kyle Walker-Peters, in the seventy-third minute, in a 2-1 win over China Under-Twenties. He then sat unused as England were held to a 0-0 draw by Mexico Under-Twenty-Ones at Stade Marcel Roustan in Salon de Provence three days later. On 1st June 2018 he started the 4-0 win over Qatar Under-Nineteens at Stade Parsemain in Fos-sur-Mer and he played until Half-Time when he was replaced by Jay Dasilva. He was on the bench in the two remaining ties as Scotland Under-Twenty-Ones were defeated 3-1 at the Stade de Lattre de Tassigny in Aubagne on 6th June 2018, and three days later the final was won. He was then called up by the England Under-Twenty team in September 2018. He was on the bench in the first game as Switzerland were defeated 2-0 at St George's Park, Tatenhill, Burton-on-Trent on 6th September 2018. Four days later he started in a 3-1 loss to the Netherlands at the Sportpark Nieuw Zuid, Katwijk aan Zee, where he was replaced after eighty-four minutes by Jay Dasilva He then played a full game in the next two games on 11th October 2018 in a 2-1 win over Italy at Mill Farm Wesham, and four days later in a 1-1 draw with the Czech Republic at the Stadion Strelecky ostrov Ceske Budejovice. Leeds had signed Barry Douglas and with Gaetano Berardi already ahead in the pecking order Leeds were well supplied at Left Back with Troy Denton also in the picture.

(To 2017/18)