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Blackpool sign World Cup "King"


Published on Thursday 2 September 2010 09:16

BLACKPOOL FC have signed Ghana World Cup goalkeeper Richard Kingson, formerly with Wigan and Birmingham and named him in their 24-man squad for the 2010-11 season.

Manager Ian Holloway moved to sign the former Wigan and Birmingham stopper because of a long term injury to Paul Rachubka.

Kingson is the second player from the 2010 World Cup to link up with the Seaasiders in the last 24 hours, Blackpool having signed Australian full-back David Carney from Dutch champions FC Twente.

Kingson has played in the Premier League before for Wigan Athletic and Birmingham City Kingson helped Ghana to get to the quarter-finals of the World Cup in South Africa, where they eventually lost to Uruguay in a controversial match settled by a penalty shoot-out.

Earlier, Kingson was voted man of the match in Ghana's last 16 win over the United States.

The Seasiders have finalised their squad for the campaign and named their under-21 players.

Squad: 1 Charlie Adam; 2 Alex John-Baptiste; 3 Chrisopher Basham; 4 Stephen Crainey; 5 Martin Maluary; 6 Danny Coid; 7 Ishmel Demontagnac; 8 Neal Eardley; 9 Rob Edwards; 10 Jason Euell; 11 Ian Evatt; 12 Matthew Gilks; 13 Elliot Grandin; 14 Marlon Harwood; 15 Dekel Keinan; 16 Brett Ormerod; 17 Keith Southern; 18 Ludovic Sylvestre; 19 Gary Taylor-Fletcher; 20 Luke Varney; 21 David Vaughan; 22 DJ Campbell; 23 David Carney; 24 Richard Kingson.

Under 21: Louis James Almond; Thomas John Barkhuizen; Craig George Cathcart; Matthew David Challoner; Adam John Dodd; Ashley Eastham; Reynolds Kingsley Francis; Ryan Gratton; Mark James Halstead; Stephen Husband; Pa Modou Jobe; Christoper David Kettings; Joseph Thomas MacDonald; Adam Thomas Mitter; Dillan Ryan O'Connor; Matthew Phillips; Joshua James Roberts; Elliott Preston Tarney; Garen Hagop Tchobanian; Curtis Stephen Thompson; Liam Richard Tomsett; Biko Gauche Younda.


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