Kelvin Jack

Kelvin Keyon Jack (born April 29, 1976 in Trincity ) is a soccer goalkeeper from Trinidad and Tobago . He currently plays for Maidstone United in the English Isthmian League .

Club career

He began his professional career with W Connection from Trinidad; later he moved to San Juan Jabloteh , where he played for some time. Since 2000 he has been invited to practice training several times by English clubs, for example Northampton Town and Crystal Palace . But it was not until March 2004 that Reading FC took him under contract, but he was not used for the new club during the remaining games of the 2004/05 season. For the next season he moved to FC Dundee, which was then playing in the Scottish Premier League , but was only used twice in the first season. Only since relegation to the 2nd Scottish League in 2005 did he play more often. Before the start of the 2006/07 season, he moved to Gillingham FC in the third highest English league.

National team

Since his debut against Jamaica in 1999, he has made 31 appearances for his country's selection. In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , he took turns in goal with Shaka Hislop and was able to save the qualification in the very last qualifying game against the Bahrain of his homeland with an artistic parade shortly before the final whistle. Jack was nominated for his home country's finals for the 2006 World Cup and was designated as number 1. However, since a calf injury broke out while warming up before the first group game against Sweden , he was replaced by Shaka Hislop in the first two group games. It was only in the last group game against Paraguay that he made his first and only World Cup appearance.

Web links

• Dossier about Jack on soccaworriors.net with extensive press review (English)