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Shaka Hislop
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Trinidad and Tobago footballer
Key facts
- 1998
- England U21
- Full name
- Neil Shaka Hislop
- Date of birth
- ( 1969-02-22 ) 22 February 1969 (age 57)
- Place of birth
- Hackney , London , England
- Height
- 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Years
- Team
- 1987 1991
- Howard Bison
- 1992 1995
- Reading
- 1995 1998
- Newcastle United
- 1998 2002
- West Ham United
- 2002 2005
- Portsmouth
- 2005 2006
- West Ham United
- 2006 2007
- FC Dallas
- 1999 2006
- Trinidad and Tobago
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London Borough of Hackney
- Occupation
- sports commentator
- Participant in
- 2006 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Position played
- goalkeeper
- League
- Major League Soccer
- Country for sport
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Mass
- 86
- Height
- 193
Show 3 more facts
- name in native language
- Shaka Hislop
- date of birth
- 1969-02-22
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Neil Shaka Hislop CM (born 22 February 1969) is a football commentator and former player who played as a goalkeeper. Born in England, he played for the England under-21 team before representing Trinidad and Tobago at senior international level.
Hislop spent majority of his playing career in the top division in England where he was a part of the Newcastle United team which finished second in the Premier League for two successive seasons under Kevin Keegan. Before this, he played for Reading, where he was on the losing side in the First Division play-offs despite finishing second overall (the only occasion on which second place was not an automatic promotion position). He later played for West Ham United in two spells (receiving an FA Cup runners-up medal during his second season in 2006) and also for Portsmouth (where he won the First Division in 2002–03).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shaka Hislop” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.