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Chris Hughton
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1951-03-04
- Active to
- 2025-12-22
Discography
- Whatever Happened to Benny Santini?1978
- Deltics1979
- Tennis1980
- Chris Rea1981
- Water Sign1983
- Wired to the Moon1984
- Shamrock Diaries1985
- On the Beach1986
- Dancing With Strangers1987
- The Road to Hell1989
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,083x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,970x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,790x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,276x
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Key facts
- 1997
- Tottenham Hotspur (caretaker)
- 1998
- Tottenham Hotspur (caretaker)
- 2008
- Newcastle United (caretaker)
- Full name
- Christopher William Gerard Hughton
- Date of birth
- ( 1958-12-11 ) 11 December 1958 (age 67)
- Place of birth
- Forest Gate , Essex , England
- Height
- 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
- Position
- Full-back
- Years
- Team
- 1977 1990
- Tottenham Hotspur
- 1990 1992
- West Ham United
- 1992 1993
- Brentford
- 1979 1991
- Republic of Ireland
- 2009 2010
- Newcastle United
- 2011 2012
- Birmingham City
- 2012 2014
- Norwich City
- 2014 2019
- Brighton & Hove Albion
- 2020 2021
- Nottingham Forest
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired Soccer
- Position
- Full-back
- Nationality
- Ireland
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Chris
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Stratford
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 1988
- Sport
- association football
- Position played
- full-back
- Country for sport
- Republic of Ireland
- Image
- Chris Hughton July 2015.jpg
- Height
- 170
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- Chris Hughton
- date of birth
- 1958-12-11
- birth name
- Christopher William Gerard Hughton
- name in native language
- Chris Hughton
- coach of sports team
- Newcastle United F.C.
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Encyclopedic overview
Christopher William Gerard Hughton (born 11 December 1958) is a professional football manager and former player. Born in England, he represented the Republic of Ireland national team. He was most recently head coach of the Ghana national team.
After making his professional debut aged 20, Hughton spent most of his playing career with Tottenham Hotspur as a left-back, leaving in 1990 after 13 years. After relatively brief spells with West Ham United and Brentford, he retired from playing in 1993 at the age of 34. He earned 53 caps representing the Republic of Ireland, scoring one goal and starting in all three of Ireland's games at UEFA Euro 1988 in West Germany.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chris Hughton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.