Declan Rice

Declan Rice is my favorite kind of footballer: the one whose value you only fully grasp when he is absent. Defensive midfield is thankless work, yet Rice has turned screening, tackling, and ball-carrying into something close to glamour. Watching him for Arsenal and England, what impresses me most is the calm; he receives under pressure as if pressure were a rumor. At 188 cm with relentless stamina, he covers ground like a player half his size. I would argue he is quietly redefining what England expects from the position: not just destruction, but progression. Born in 1999, he could anchor that midfield for another decade, and I suspect history will rank him very highly.

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Name (English)

Declan Rice

Name (Japanese)

デクラン・ライス

Reading

でくらん・らいす

Born

January 14, 1999 (age 27)

Origin

Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

Height

188 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rabbit

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declan%20Rice
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30007142

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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