Kris Kane
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Kris Kane is a Scottish
field hockey
player, who was a member of the national squad that finished 8th in the 2003 European Nations Cup in Barcelona
. The goalkeeper plays for Western Wildcats, and has won five Scottish National League titles and four Scottish Cups. Kane became player coach of Western Wildcats in 2007
Kris has 49 caps and has 31 under twenty one caps for the Scottish National team.
Kris was a youth player at Rangers F.C.
before a broken leg
forced him to abandon football as a career choice. His brother, Barry, was already a hockey
player and Kris took up the sport as a result.
Described by many as having an un-conventional goalkeeping style, Kane was a member of the
National team since 2001 but did not play for the national team between
2006 and 2008 after a public disagreement with then head coach Matthias Ahrens over his selection policies.
Shortly after Ahrens departure from his role as head coach it was announced that Kane had been selected for the Scottish national team once again. Kane works as a Solicitor for the Scottish Procurator Fiscal Office.
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
player, who was a member of the national squad that finished 8th in the 2003 European Nations Cup in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
. The goalkeeper plays for Western Wildcats, and has won five Scottish National League titles and four Scottish Cups. Kane became player coach of Western Wildcats in 2007
Kris has 49 caps and has 31 under twenty one caps for the Scottish National team.
Kris was a youth player at Rangers F.C.
Rangers F.C.
Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...
before a broken leg
forced him to abandon football as a career choice. His brother, Barry, was already a hockey
player and Kris took up the sport as a result.
Described by many as having an un-conventional goalkeeping style, Kane was a member of the
National team since 2001 but did not play for the national team between
2006 and 2008 after a public disagreement with then head coach Matthias Ahrens over his selection policies.
Shortly after Ahrens departure from his role as head coach it was announced that Kane had been selected for the Scottish national team once again. Kane works as a Solicitor for the Scottish Procurator Fiscal Office.