Shay Given

Shay Given earns my respect as one of Ireland's finest, with 134 caps trailing only Robbie Keane. A goalkeeper carries a peculiar loneliness, judged by mistakes more than saves, and to do it at the Premier League's highest level for years takes uncommon nerve. At 185 cm and in his prime among the league's best, he was a steady wall behind shifting defenses. Now coaching keepers, he passes on hard-won composure. I find something quietly heroic about a man who spent a career standing alone at the back, and still gives himself to the next generation.

Name (English)

Shay Given

Name (Japanese)

シェイ・ギヴン

Reading

しぇい・ぎゔん

Born

April 20, 1976 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

Origin

Lifford, County Donegal, Ireland

Height

185 cm

Occupation

association football player / goalkeeper coach / association football coach

• Official sitehttp://www.shay-given.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/No1shaygiven
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay%20Given
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215812

Tags

• County Donegal
• association football player
• goalkeeper coach
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.