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Rob Holding
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Rob Holding, born Robert Samuel Holding on September 20, 1995, in Stalybridge, is a male association football player from the United Kingdom. He plays as a centre-back and represents England in international competition. Standing 189 centimeters tall and weighing 75 kilograms, he has been active in professional football since 2015.
Holding has been a member of several sports teams, including Arsenal F.C., Bolton Wanderers F.C., Bury F.C., and the England national under-21 association football team. He has also played for the Colorado Rapids. His career has spanned various leagues and competitions, including the Premier League, the English Football League, and Major League Soccer.
Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 2016-08-01
Discography
- Permanent / Dream of Me2017
- Penance2017
- Heaven Knows2017
- This Is as One2018
- Monochrome2019
- Perish2019
- You Are Everything2019
- Holding Absence2019
- Gravity2020
- Birdcage2020
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 15
- Total plays
- 23
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rob+Holding">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,946x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,879x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,631x
- UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection
· 2011 · cited 13,548x
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Key facts
- 2015
- → Bury (loan)
- 2025
- → Sheffield United (loan)
- Full name
- Robert Samuel Holding
- Date of birth
- ( 1995-09-20 ) 20 September 1995 (age 30)
- Place of birth
- Stalybridge , England
- Height
- 6 ft 2 in (1.89 m)
- Position
- Centre-back
- Current team
- Colorado Rapids
- 2003 2014
- Bolton Wanderers
- Years
- Team
- 2014 2016
- Bolton Wanderers
- 2016 2023
- Arsenal
- 2023 2025
- Crystal Palace
- 2016 2017
- England U21
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Colorado Rapids
- Position
- Centre-Back
- Nationality
- England
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rob
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Stalybridge
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Crystal Palace F.C.
- Position played
- centre-back
- League
- Major League Soccer
- Country for sport
- England
- Mass
- 75
- Image
- Rob Holding NYCFC v Colorado Mar 14 2026-30 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 189
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1995-09-20
- sport number
- 16
- name in native language
- Rob Holding
- birth name
- Robert Samuel Holding
- Commons category
- Rob Holding
- start of work period
- 2015-00-00
- social media followers
- 351786
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Samuel Holding (born 20 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Major League Soccer club Colorado Rapids.
Holding progressed through the Bolton Wanderers youth system, making his senior debut in April 2015 while on loan at Bury. After one season in the Bolton first team, he signed for Premier League club Arsenal in July 2016. He has won the FA Cup twice and the FA Community Shield three times with the club. At Arsenal, he earned a reputation as a dogged defender, with good tackling and aerial ability. Holding has also represented England at under-21 level and was part of the team that won the Toulon Tournament in 2016.
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