Kingsley James
English association football player
Kingsley Tyrone James (born 17 February 1992) is an English football player and coach who plays as a midfielder for Northern Counties East League Division One club Selby Town.
A former Sheffield United youth team captain, he switched to Port Vale in the summer of 2011. He was loaned out to Chasetown in October 2011. He joined Hereford United on loan in January 2013. Port Vale were promoted out of League Two in 2012–13, and he left the "Valiants" to play for Hereford permanently. He represented England at semi-professional level. He switched to Chester in June 2014 and then to FC Halifax Town in July 2015. He played for Halifax in their 2016 FA Trophy final victory over Grimsby Town before he joined Macclesfield Town in July 2016. He played in Macclesfield's defeat at the 2017 FA Trophy final and then returned to Chester in June 2017. He spent the second half of the 2017–18 campaign on loan at Barrow after Chester were unable to pay his wages.
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