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Ian Wright
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English footballer and commentator (born 1963)
Film & TV
Woolwich, London, England, UK
Ian Wright is an English former professional footballer and television and radio personality.
Known for
- Road to Glory — Self2026
- From the Ground Up — Self2025
- M&S: Dress The Nation — Self - Guest Judge2024
- The Kitchen — Lord Kitchener2023
- Under Pressure: The U.S. Women's World Cup Team — Self2023
- Icons of Football — Self - Interviewed Guest2023
- Stick to Football — Self2023
- The Overlap on Tour — Self2023
- Lionesses: Champions of Europe — Self2022
- All or Nothing: Arsenal — Self2022
via TMDB
Key facts
- 1985
- Greenwich Borough
- 1999
- → Nottingham Forest (loan)
- 2000
- Burnley
- Birth name
- Ian Edward Wright
- Date of birth
- ( 1963-11-03 ) 3 November 1963 (age 62)
- Place of birth
- London , England
- Height
- 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
- Position
- Forward
- Years
- Team
- 1985 1991
- Crystal Palace
- 1991 1998
- Arsenal
- 1998 1999
- West Ham United
- 1999 2000
- Celtic
- 1989 1992
- England B
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Centre-Forward
- Nationality
- England
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ian
- Family name
- Wright
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Woolwich
- Occupation
- sports commentator
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- association football
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- England
- Image
- Ian Wright Eng Women 0 Czech Rep 0 11 10 2022-23 (52426854534) (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 175
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- date of birth
- 1963-11-03
- Commons category
- Ian Wright
- birth name
- Ian Edward Wright
- start of work period
- 1985-00-00
- end of work period
- 2000-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 2
- total goals in career
- 0
- social media followers
- 2210682
- different from
- Ian Wright
- name in native language
- Ian Wright
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Encyclopedic overview
Ian Edward Wright (born 3 November 1963) is an English media personality and former professional footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest forwards in the history of the Premier League and one of Arsenal's greatest ever players.
Wright enjoyed success with London clubs Crystal Palace and Arsenal as a forward, spending six years with the former and seven years with the latter. With Arsenal he lifted the Premier League title, both the major domestic cup competitions, and the European Cup Winners Cup. Known for his speed, agility, finishing and aggression, he played 581 league games, scoring 287 goals for seven clubs in Scotland and England, while also earning 33 caps for the England national team, and scoring nine international goals.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ian Wright” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.