Ben Foster

Goalkeeping is the loneliest job in football, and Ben Foster's career reads like a long, stubborn climb toward it. Signed by Stoke as a young man, he never played a match for them and instead bounced through loans at Bristol City, Tiverton, Stafford, Kidderminster and Wrexham. That kind of journeyman apprenticeship builds something you can't fake: resilience. I admire players who pay their dues in the lower tiers before anyone notices them, because every save they make later is earned. Foster always struck me as a grounded, dependable keeper, the sort of quietly tough professional the spotlight tends to overlook but the team can't do without.

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Name (English)

Ben Foster

Name (Japanese)

ベン・フォスター

Reading

べん・ふぉすたー

Born

April 3, 1983 (age 43)

Origin

Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

Height

193 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Foster%20(footballer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%20(%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10585

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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