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Joe Murphy

ジョー・マーフィー　/　じょー・まーふぃー

Association football player from Ireland

August 21, 1981 (age 44)　・　Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

County Dublin
association football player
librarian

My Take

Joe Murphy embodies the unglamorous virtue I admire most in football: durability. Over 600 Football League appearances and a couple of Premier League outings for West Brom is a career built on showing up, not headlines, and goalkeeper is the loneliest place to do it, where one slip can define a night. The Dublin keeper kept returning to Tranmere, his first club, which reads to me as loyalty rather than nostalgia. The librarian footnote charms me too. The silent guardian of a goalmouth and the quiet keeper of a library, both jobs about steady, unseen vigilance.

Overview

Joseph Murphy (born 21 August 1981) is an Irish former professional footballer who recently played as a goalkeeper for EFL League Two club Tranmere Rovers. Murphy began his career with Tranmere Rovers, and has since represented eight other clubs, making over 600 appearances in the Football League and playing twice in the Premier League for West Bromwich Albion in 2002.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Joe Murphy
Name (Japanese): ジョー・マーフィー
Reading: じょー・まーふぃー
Born: August 21, 1981 (age 44)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Rooster
Origin: Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Blood type: Private
Height: 188 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: association football player / librarian

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC

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