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John Barnes
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association football player and manager (born 1963)
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John Charles Bryan Barnes is a male association football player, coach, and sports commentator who represented England. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he holds citizenship in both the United Kingdom and Jamaica. During his playing career, Barnes competed in the Premier League and played as a midfielder or wing half for Liverpool F.C., Watford F.C., Newcastle United F.C., and Charlton Athletic F.C. He participated in the 1986 and 1990 FIFA World Cups as well as UEFA Euro 1988.
Beyond football, Barnes works as a musician, performing on the voice instrument. He has received the award of Member of the Order of the British Empire. His residence is listed as Kingston, and he speaks English.
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Film & TV
Kingston, Jamaica
John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE is a Jamaican-born English former professional footballer and manager, who currently works as a commentator and pundit for ESPN and SuperSport
Known for
- The Match — Self2026
- Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two — Self2024
- The Real Anne: Unfinished Business — Self2022
- Green Lions: Cameroon 90 — Self2022
- Celebrity Lingo — Self - Contestant2022
- The Weakest Link — Self2021
- I Literally Just Told You — Self2021
- Blankety Blank — Self - Panellist2021
- Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export — Self2020
- Return to Turin - Italia ‘90 — Himself2020
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,903
- Total plays
- 4,721
Tags
"Like The Edge On Ketamine" ....small head, big noise <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Barnes">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Key facts
- 1999
- Charlton Athletic
- 2009
- Tranmere Rovers
- Full name
- John Charles Bryan Barnes
- Date of birth
- ( 1963-11-07 ) 7 November 1963 (age 62)
- Place of birth
- Kingston , Jamaica
- Height
- 5 ft 11 in (1.81 m)
- Position
- Left winger
- Years
- Team
- 1980 1981
- Sudbury Court
- 1981 1987
- Watford
- 1987 1997
- Liverpool
- 1997 1999
- Newcastle United
- 1982 1983
- England U21
- 1983 1995
- England
- 1999 2000
- Celtic
- 2008 2009
- Jamaica
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Left Midfield
- Nationality
- England
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Barnes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Kingston
- Occupation
- sports commentator
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 1988
- Instrument
- voice
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- England men's national association football team
- Position played
- wing half
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- England
- Image
- John Barnes in Kristiansund, Norway.jpg
- Height
- 181
- Residence
- Kingston
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- date of birth
- 1963-11-07
- Commons category
- John Barnes (footballer)
- birth name
- John Charles Bryan Barnes
- name in native language
- John Barnes
- coach of sports team
- Tranmere Rovers F.C.
- nickname
- el mastodonte
- start of work period
- 1981-00-00
- end of work period
- 1999-00-00
- ethnic group
- Black Britons
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Encyclopedic overview
John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE (born 7 November 1963) is a former professional football player and manager. Often considered one of the greatest England players of all time and one of Liverpool's greatest ever players, Barnes works as an author, as well as a commentator and pundit for ESPN and SuperSport. Initially he was a quick and skilful left winger, then he moved to central midfield later in his career. Barnes won two League titles and two FA Cups with Liverpool. He also earned 79 international caps for England.
Barnes was born and raised in Jamaica as the son of a military officer from Trinidad and Tobago and a Jamaican mother. He moved to London, England, with his family when he was 12 years old. He joined Watford aged 17 in 1981, before playing 296 competitive games for them, scoring 85 goals. He debuted for England in 1983, and in 1987 joined Liverpool for £900,000. In his ten seasons there, Liverpool won the then-top-flight First Division twice and the FA Cup twice. He scored 106 goals in 403 matches. By the time of his last cap, in 1995, he had more caps than any other black England player. After two years at Newcastle United, he ended his playing career at Charlton Athletic in 1999. Barnes had eight months as Celtic head coach when his former Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish was director of football. He has since managed the Jamaica national team, in 2008–09, and English club Tranmere Rovers, for four months in 2009.
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