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Key facts
- 2011
- Anif Jugend
- 2015
- Jamaica U23
- 2019
- Jamaica
- 2021
- Aston Villa
- Full name
- Leon Patrick Bailey
- Date of birth
- ( 1997-08-09 ) 9 August 1997 (age 28)
- Place of birth
- Kingston , Jamaica
- Height
- 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Position
- Right winger
- Current team
- Aston Villa
- 2009 2011
- Phoenix All-Star Academy
- 2011 2013
- Liefering
- 2013 2015
- Trenčín
- Years
- Team
- 2015 2017
- Genk
- 2017 2021
- Bayer Leverkusen
- 2025 2026
- → Roma (loan)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Patrick
- Family name
- Bailey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Jamaica
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- AS Roma
- Position played
- wing half
- League
- Bundesliga
- Country for sport
- Jamaica
- Mass
- 70
- Image
- Leon Bailey bei der Saisoneroeffnung August 2018.jpg
- Height
- 181
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- social media followers
- 85594
- date of birth
- 1997-08-09
- sport number
- 31
- birth name
- Leon Patrick Bailey
- name in native language
- Leon Bailey
- start of work period
- 2015-00-00
- Commons category
- Leon Bailey
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Encyclopedic overview
Leon Patrick Bailey (born 9 August 1997) is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Premier League club Aston Villa and the Jamaica national team.
Bailey arrived in Europe at the age of 13 and played for a number of clubs at youth level before being signed by Belgian side Genk in 2015, where he was named Belgian Young Footballer of the Year. His success in Belgium earned him a move to Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen in 2017. After four years at the club, he was signed by Aston Villa in 2021 for a fee of around £30 million.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leon Bailey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.