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Shaquille Hunter

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Shaquille Hunter
Hunter playing for Bristol Rovers in 2013
Personal information
Full name Shaquille Junior Anthony Hunter[1]
Date of birth (1995-08-29) 29 August 1995 (age 29)[1]
Place of birth Birmingham, England
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
Bristol Rovers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013 Bristol Rovers 3 (0)
2014–2015 Mangotsfield United
2015 Bristol City 0 (0)
2016–2017 Bath City 27 (4)
2017–2018 Weston-super-Mare 10 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:06, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Shaquille Junior Anthony Hunter (born 29 August 1995) is an English former semi-professional footballer who played as a winger.

Career

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Hunter was born in Birmingham, West Midlands.[1] He began his career with Bristol Rovers, firstly as an unused substitute in a second round Football League Cup tie against Leyton Orient on his 16th birthday.[2] In 2012, it was reported that Premier League clubs Fulham, Liverpool and Manchester City were all interested in Hunter.[3] He made his professional debut in a 2–1 defeat against Exeter City on 3 August 2013.[4] He left Rovers in December 2013 due to disciplinary problems.[5] In September 2014 he joined Mangotsfield United, before having a brief spell with Bristol City, although he failed to make any first team appearances for them.[6]

He spent the 2016 pre-season on trial with Bath City,[6] eventually signing a one-year deal at the club.[7]

Personal life

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Hunter attended De Montfort University in Leicester, graduating with a Masters of Business Administration MBA. In 2019 he founded soft-drink company "Sip Shack" that as of September 2021 had reached 250,000 sales nationwide.[8]

Career statistics

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As of match played 2 December 2017 [9]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Bristol Rovers 2013–14 League Two 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 0
Mangotsfield United 2014–15 SFL - Division One S & W 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Bath City 2016–17 National League South 27 4 2 0 4[a] 1 33 5
Weston-super-Mare 2017–18 National League South 10 1 0 0 1 0 11 1
Career total 41 5 2 0 1 0 5 1 49 6
  1. ^ Two appearances in the FA Trophy; two appearances and a goal in the Somerset Premier Cup

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Shaquille Hunter". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  2. ^ "PLAYER PROFILE". www.bristolrovers.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012.
  3. ^ "City and Liverpool battling for Shaq". The Mirror. 10 January 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  4. ^ "Exeter 2-1 Bristol Rovers". BBC Sport. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  5. ^ "Teenager Shaquille Hunter parts company with Bristol Rovers". Bristol Post. Archived from the original on 28 January 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  6. ^ a b Steve Cotton (3 July 2016). "Former Bristol Rovers and City man Shaquille Hunter scores pre-season wonder-goal". Bristol Post. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  7. ^ "Three more pen City deals". Pichero non-league. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  8. ^ "DMU graduate hoping to take the drinks industry by storm as sales pass a quarter of a million". www.dmu.ac.uk. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  9. ^ Shaquille Hunter at Soccerway. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
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