Chris Richards

Chris Richards is genuinely one of the more exciting stories in American soccer right now, and I don't think he gets nearly enough credit for it. Born in Birmingham, Alabama — not exactly a hotbed of the beautiful game — he somehow found his way to FC Dallas's academy, then leapfrogged all the way to Bayern Munich, which is an absurd trajectory for any teenager, let alone an American one. He more than held his own in the Bundesliga before landing at Crystal Palace in the Premier League, where his composure on the ball and reading of the game have made him a real presence at center-back. For the USMNT, he's been a steady, technically sharp option in a generation loaded with talent. I'm rooting hard for him.

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Name (English)

Chris Richards

Name (Japanese)

クリス・リチャーズ

Reading

くりす・りちゃーず

Born

March 28, 2000 (age 26)

Origin

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Height

188 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Richards%20(soccer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60839691

Tags

• Alabama
• association football player

Last updated

October 18, 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.