Philippe Albert

Philippe Albert is my kind of centre-back. A 1.90 m Belgian from Bouillon, he refused to simply defend; at Newcastle, in the side dubbed the Entertainers, he surged forward and scored the sort of goals defenders are not supposed to attempt. That attacking instinct from the back is one of the hardest qualities to find, and it made him genuinely thrilling to watch. After spells at Anderlecht and in England, he moved into punditry, which fits: a man who clearly enjoyed the game should be good at explaining its joys. The greedy ambition of defending and attacking at once is what I love about him.

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Name (English)

Philippe Albert

Name (Japanese)

フィリップ・アルベール

Reading

ふぃりっぷ・あるべーる

Born

August 10, 1967 (age 59)

Origin

Luxembourg, Belgium

Occupation

association football player / color commentator

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Albert
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%99%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q563065

Tags

• Luxembourg
• association football player
• color commentator

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.