Kalvin Phillips

Kalvin Phillips is one of those players who earns your respect before you even realize it's happening. He came up through Leeds United's academy — a proper hometown kid from Leeds — and by the time Marcelo Bielsa was putting that 2019-20 Championship-winning squad through its paces, Phillips was the heartbeat of the midfield. "The Yorkshire Pirlo" they called him, which is both absurd and kind of earned. His move to Manchester City felt like the logical next step for a guy who'd played himself into the England squad, but the fit was rougher than anyone expected and the Sheffield United loan was a chance to find his feet again. He has only just turned thirty — there's still a real story left to tell here, and I'm genuinely curious which version of Kalvin Phillips shows up to write it.

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Name (English)

Kalvin Phillips

Name (Japanese)

カルバン・フィリップス

Reading

かるばん・ふぃりっぷす

Born

December 2, 1995 (age 30)

Origin

Leeds, United Kingdom

Height

178 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Boar

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalvin%20Phillips
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20641319

Tags

• 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.