   liam matthew ridgewell (born 21 july 1984) is an english footballer who plays for the portland timbers of major league soccer as a defender. he is primarily a centre half but can also play at left back. ridgewell began his senior career with aston villa, spending a spell on loan at a.f.c. bournemouth in 2002, before moving to villa's local rivals birmingham city in 2007, where he was part of the 2011 football league cup final-winning team. he spent two-and-a-half seasons with west bromwich albion, who released him at the end of 2013â14. internationally, he has eight caps for england at under-21 level. ==club career== ===early career=== ridgewell was born in bexleyheath, london. 
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