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Friday, August 19, 2011

Keeper Joins On Loan

Welsh under 21 keeper David Cornell has joined the Bulls on a months loan from Swansea, the club have announced.

The 20 year old 6ft 2in stopper has played once for the Swans first team, while also getting a call into the Welsh senior squad. He spent part of last season at Port Talbot, playing 13 times for the Welsh Premier side.

He is currently on the stand-by list for the Welsh Under-21's for their Euro 2012 qualifier in Montenergo which takes place on September 6th.

His profile adapted from Wikipedia:

David Joseph Cornell (born 28 March 1991) is a Welsh football goalkeeper currently playing for Premier League side Swansea City. He is also a Wales under-21 international.

Club career:

Cornell toured Spain with the Swansea senior squad in pre-season only to suffer a serious wrist injury which halted his progress. Then-manager Roberto Martinez decided to call Cornell up to the first team, after loan signing Dimitrios Konstantopoulos was unable to extend his stay at the club, and was placed on the bench for the fifth round FA Cup match against Fulham. Cornell made his professional debut for Swansea on 25 August 2009 when he was in the starting line-up for the League Cup match against Scunthorpe United.

International career:

Cornell made his debut for the Wales under-17 side on 25 March 2007, in a 3–0 defeat to Belarus, and went on to win five caps at under-17 level, his last coming on 6 October 2007 in a 2–2 draw with Spain in the qualifying round of the 2008 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. In August 2009, he received his first call-up to the Wales under-21 side to face Italy, but remained on the bench.

In November 2009, he made his debut for the Wales under-19 side, playing in consecutive defeats to Portugal and Spain in the qualifying round of the 2010 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship. The day after, Cornell was handed a shock call-up to the Welsh senior squad, for their game against Scotland due to the playing commitments of Owain Fon Williams, and Lewis Price, and an injury to Boaz Myhill.

Cornell made his debut for the Wales under-21 side on 18 May 2010 in a 1–0 defeat to Austria under-21's.