Matthew Booth

At 198 cm, Matthew Booth must have looked like a fortress at centre-back, and that image makes me smile. But what genuinely earns my respect is the journey of the man from Fish Hoek. He could have stayed comfortable in South Africa, yet he spent six years in Russia and a stint in England, swapping familiar warmth for foreign cold and foreign languages. That takes a stubborn, adventurous spirit I find admirable. Defenders rarely get the headlines strikers do, but the ones who plant themselves abroad and simply hold the line season after season are, to me, quietly heroic figures worth remembering.

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Name (English)

Matthew Booth

Name (Japanese)

マシュー・ブース

Reading

ましゅー・ぶーす

Born

March 14, 1977 (age 49)

Origin

Fish Hoek, Western Cape, South Africa

Height

198 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Snake

• Official sitehttp://matthewbooth.co.za/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Booth%20(soccer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311919

Tags

• Western Cape
• association football player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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