Owain Fôn Williams

Owain Fôn Williams fascinates me because he refuses to be only one thing. A 193 cm Welsh goalkeeper who logged 271 English Football League appearances, 161 of them at Tranmere Rovers, he is also a working artist with brush in hand. That dual identity, athlete and painter, says a lot about a restless, expressive mind. Now leading goalkeeping at Bolton Wanderers, he has gracefully turned from stopping shots to shaping the next keepers. I find that transition deeply admirable. The man who guarded the net for years now guards a craft, passing it forward. Quiet, durable, and genuinely creative, he earns my respect.

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Name (English)

Owain Fôn Williams

Name (Japanese)

オウェイン・フォン・ウィリアムズ

Reading

おうぇいん・ふぉん・うぃりあむず

Born

March 17, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Penygroes, United Kingdom

Height

193 cm

Occupation

association football player / artist / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rabbit

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owain%20F%C3%B4n%20Williams
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7114242

Tags

• association football player
• artist
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.