Aaron Clapham

Aaron Clapham is the kind of footballer I instinctively root for: a Christchurch native who spent the bulk of his senior career with hometown Canterbury United rather than drifting from club to club. His time at the University of Louisville suggests a player willing to test himself abroad before coming home, and his pivot into coaching feels like a natural extension of that loyalty. At 174 cm he was never going to overpower anyone, so he must have relied on smarts and grit. I find that kind of hometown loyalty genuinely moving, and I suspect he will pour that same devotion into developing the next generation.

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Name (English)

Aaron Clapham

Name (Japanese)

アーロン・クラッパム

Reading

あーろん・くらっぱむ

Born

January 15, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Christchurch, New Zealand

Height

174 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rabbit

University

University of Louisville

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Clapham
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%91%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q301865

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.