Charles Graham Adam (brought into the world 10 December 1985) is a Scottish expert footballer who plays as a midfielder for Reading.

Adam was a piece of the Dundee youth set up somewhere in the range of 1999 and 2003 preceding marking an adolescent agreement with Alex McLeish's Rangers when he turned 17 and spent quite a bit of his initial senior vocation on credit to Ross County and St Mirren.

While on advance to St Mirren during the 2005–06 season, Adam was a piece of the group that won both the Scottish Challenge Cup and First Division, playing in more than thirty counterparts for the "Holy people".

After coming back to Rangers toward the finish of the 2006 season, he turned into a normal under directors Paul Le Guen and Walter Smith.

Adam was additionally part of the Rangers group that came to the 2008 UEFA Cup Final.

After dropping out of support at Rangers during 2008–09, Adam was lent out to the English Championship side Blackpool.

The credit was made changeless toward the beginning of the 2009–10 season and Adam turned into a fundamental piece of the Blackpool side, captaining the group to a season finisher triumph over Cardiff City which brought about their advancement to the Premier League.

Adam shone in his first season in the Premier League, his exhibitions being perceived with an assignment for the PFA Players' Player of the Year in April 2011.

Be that as it may, Blackpool was consigned and thusly, he moved to Liverpool in July 2011. After one season at Anfield Adam joined Stoke City in August 2012 for an expense of £4 million. Adam went through seven seasons with Stoke showing up before joining Reading in July 2019.

Background

Adam is the child of previous expert player Charlie Adam, a midfielder who played for different Scottish clubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he kicked the bucket on 17 December 2012, matured 50.

His dad's reason for death was openly uncovered as suicide in 2015. Adam's sibling, Grant, is a goalkeeper who plays for Dumbarton.

He went to Dundee's Braeview Academy, nearby individual future footballers Garry Kenneth and Scott Robertson.

Career

Adam was called up by national director Alex McLeish to the Scotland squad just because on 11 May 2007 for an agreeable against Austria and a Euro 2008 qualifying Group B coordinate against the Faroe Islands.

He made his presentation at the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium in Vienna on 30 May as a 67th-minute substitute, in a 1–0 triumph. He at that point made his aggressive introduction as a 77th-minute substitute in a 2–0 win over the Faroe Islands at the Svangaskarð arena in Toftir on 6 June.

Adam was reviewed to the Scotland squad by supervisor George Burley for an inviting against Japan on 10 October 2009 at the Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, Japan. On 10 November 2009, Adam was drafted into the Scotland squad for the well disposed against Wales four days after the fact.

He supplanted his previous Rangers colleague Kevin Thomson, who dismantled out because of ailment. George Burley said of Adam: "He scored a splitting objective for Blackpool a weekend ago. He is a generally excellent substitution. He has been playing reliably, is a quality player, and is getting a genuine profit by playing routinely."

Personal life

Adam is hitched to Sophie Anderson and has two children named Jack and Louis and a little girl named Anabella. He grew up supporting Dundee.