Nico O'Reilly

Nico O'Reilly is the kind of player that makes you sit up and pay attention — a teenager out of Manchester City's academy who managed to earn senior minutes at one of the most talent-saturated clubs on the planet, and that alone says something. Born in 2005, he's barely old enough to remember the club's first Premier League title, yet here he is in the first team as a left-back or midfielder, with a brace in the 2026 EFL Cup final and England caps to his name. City's academy has a reputation for producing technically polished, tactically intelligent players, and from what I've seen of O'Reilly, he fits that mold — composed on the ball, smart with his positioning, and not easily rattled. He's very much at the beginning of his story, but the foundation looks genuinely promising.

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Name (English)

Nico O'Reilly

Name (Japanese)

ニコ・オライリー

Reading

にこ・おらいりー

Born

March 21, 2005 (age 21)

Origin

Manchester, United Kingdom

Height

193 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rooster

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico%20O'Reilly
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118645253

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 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.