| Intro | English footballer |
| Is |
Athlete Football player Association football player |
| From | United Kingdom |
| Type | Sports |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 24 January 1986, Billinge, Merseyside |
| Age: | 34 years |
Timothy Martin Lees (born 24 January 1986) is an English football player, football coach and football skills performer.
Football skills performer
Tim Lees finished second in the 2004 World Nike Freestyle Competition receiving 54,000 votes losing out convincingly to the Brazilian champion in Rio de Janeiro. He later appeared in the Channel 4 2006 TV series The Pepsi Max World Challenge, chosen from a pool of 17,000 UK entrants. The series had a $100,000 prize for the winning team involving David Beckham, Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry and Alessandro Nesta. Lees has performed and choreographed several football commercials and advertisements.
Club career
Lees was released from Everton and Bolton Wanderers academies failing to make the grade as a youth player. His recorded semi professional clubs include Stalybridge Celtic, Leek Town, Maryland (USA), Wingate & Finchley, AFC Hayes, Harlow Town and Radcliffe Borough.
Other career
Lees was chosen to represent England semi professional side at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, managed by Jamie Redknapp. He was refused a work permit by Portuguese Vitoria Setubal after being recommended by ex-Portugal Internationals Dimas and Sao Pinto.
Coaching career
Lees worked at Watford and Wigan Athletic’s academies – the latter where we was, until August 2014, Youth Development Manager overseeing the coaching programmes and philosophy under Roberto Martinez. In August 2014 he announced on his personal Twitter feed he would be leaving Wigan and was joining Liverpool as part of their Academy revamp.
He is Academy Director of Soccer School UK, based in Warrington.
Personal life
Lees has a BSc Hons in Sports Psychology at London Metropolitan University.