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Alan Hansen

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Also known as Alan David Hansen

Scottish association football player

OverviewAI-generated

Alan Hansen is a male artist from the United States, born on June 13, 1955. He stands 1.88 meters tall. His musical output is categorized under genres including alternative dance, alternative rock, anti-folk, electronic, and folk rock. On Last.fm, his music is tagged as ambient, instrumental, and electronic.

Hansen has also been active as an author, with Open Library listing eleven works under his name. These include "Six of the Best," "Alan Hansen's soccer quiz book," and "Die Wirkung Von Film und Fernsehen Auf Die Zuschauer." Crossref records five works associated with him.

In terms of athletic statistics, records indicate he played three matches with a total of zero goals. His encyclopedia entry is referenced by 532 other articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
11

Top works

  • Six of the Best
  • Die Wirkung Von Film und Fernsehen Auf Die Zuschauer
  • Das Palästinalied von Walther von der Vogelweide
  • Auf dem Weg zu einer allgemein anerkannten Wirkungstheorie : Illusion oder Realität?
  • Alan Hansen's soccer quiz book

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1970-07-08
alternative dancealternative rockanti-folkelectronicfolk rockindie rock

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
60
Total plays
629

Tags

ambientinstrumentalelectronic

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alan+Hansen">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Alan Hansen

Quotes

  • I think there’s a lot of coloured players in all the major teams and there are lots of coloured players who are probably the best in the Premier League. If you look at 25 or 30 years ago it was probably in a bad way – not as bad as some of the other nations on the Continent – but certainly there is always, always room for improvement.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Key facts

Full name
Alan David Hansen
Date of birth
( 1955-06-13 ) 13 June 1955 (age 70)
Place of birth
Sauchie , Clackmannanshire , Scotland
Height
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Position
Centre-back
Years
Team
1973 1977
Partick Thistle
1977 1991
Liverpool
1975 1976
Scotland U23
1979 1987
Scotland

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Alan David Hansen MBE (born 13 June 1955) is a Scottish former footballer and BBC television football pundit. Regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time, he enjoyed a highly decorated playing career, winning eight First Division titles, three European Cups, two FA Cups, four League Cups, and several other honours with Liverpool during their dominant era from the late 1970s until the late 1980s. He also represented Partick Thistle and the Scotland national team.

After retiring, Hansen became a well-known football pundit, most notably appearing on Match of the Day from 1992 to 2014, where he was known for his sharp analysis and frequent criticism of poor defending, often using terms like "diabolical" or "shocking" to describe lapses at the back.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alan Hansen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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