Will Packwood

Packwood joined Birmingham City's youth academy in August 2007, at age 14 years. He progressed through the academy teams, playing for the U18s and Reserves while still a schoolboy, and eventually captaining the U18s in the 2010–11 season. In July 2011, Packwood signed his first professional contract, a two-year contract expiring in July 2013. In the absence through injury of Stephen Carr and Jonathan Spector, Packwood made his first-team debut on August 14, 2012, starting at right-back in the first round League Cup match against Barnet. He kept his place for the opening match of the 2012–13 Football League season, a 1–1 draw at home to Charlton Athletic. During the second half of an FA Cup tie at Leeds United on January 5, 2013, Packwood was carried from the field having sustained multiple fractures to his tibia and fibula after landing awkwardly from an apparently innocuous aerial challenge. He underwent three surgical procedures in the days after the injury, and his recovery time was estimated at between nine and twelve months. Despite his injury, Packwood's contract was extended for a further year, until the summer of 2014. Packwood returned to competitive action after less than eight months out, playing the first half of Birmingham's Professional Development League match on August 26. He played a few more times for the development squad, and on October 17 joined League Two (fourth-tier) Bristol Rovers on loan for a month, to improve his match fitness. He made his debut…

In 2009, Packwood was a member of the United States under-17 national team that participated in the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Nigeria. He played for the under-20 national team at the Dallas Cup in March 2010, on a tour to Uruguay and Chile in June 2012 and at the Marbella Cup in October 2012. Packwood was also part of the United States under-18 team for the Milk Cup in Northern Ireland in July 2011. Packwood received his first call up to the senior squad for a March 5, 2014, friendly against Ukraine, but he and Birmingham teammate Jonathan Spector remained unused substitutes as the United States lost 2–0. He played for the United States under-23 team in a friendly against the Bahamas senior squad in August 2014, and twice more in the following March, against the Bosnia and Herzegovina and Denmark under-21 teams, as part of their buildup to the 2016 Olympics.

Packwood was born in Concord, Massachusetts, to an English father and an American mother. He attended the Nashoba Brooks School and the Fenn School prior to moving to England in August 2007, where he attended Bromsgrove School.