Dion Dublin Biography
Dion Dublin is a television presenter, amateur percussionist and former professional footballer who played for the England national team as well as for several major football teams. Dublin has served as a pundit for Sky Sports in the newspaper faculty. He has also appeared on Ford Super Sunday with Richard Keys where they reflected on a variety of games, including Martin Tyler’s UEFA Champions League matches.
Dublin has also been a member of the Battle Talk panel on BBC Radio 5 Live. He has also co-presented 606, Match of the Day 2 on BBC Radio 5 Live and was also a regular in the East region on BBC One’s Late Kick-Off. In 2015, he joined Homes Under the Hammer with Lucy Alexander and Martin Roberts.
How old is Dion Dublin?-Age
The English sportsperson is 54 years old as of 22 April 2023. He was born in 1969 in Leicester, United Kingdom. He is of Nigerian descent.
Dion Dublin Family- Parents and Siblings
He is from a family of three siblings. He is the son of musician Eddie Dublin and Rose Dublin, he has two brothers Ben Challenger (Benjamin Arthur Challenger), a former English high jumper, and Eddie Dublin. His mother died of cancer at the same time his father was battling bowel cancer.
Is Dion Dublin Married? – Wife
Does Dion Dublin have Children?
He is married to Louise Dublin. However, Dion is quite private about his family life. The couple has grown children who he does not talk about. They also have a dog known as Maggie, one of their dogs Frank died of cancer.
Dion Dublin Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $16 million as of 2020. He has made his fortune from his career as a television presenter and a professional soccer player.
What football teams did Dion Dublin play for? – Football Career
With Norwich City, Dublin started his professional career but never made a first-team appearance. In 1988, as a center-back, he joined Cambridge United but was remembered as a striker. His good goalscoring assisted the club to successive promotions. In 1992, Manchester United signed him for £1 million and he became their first top scorer in the Premier League. However, in the first game of the 1992/93 season, he fractured his leg and was out of action for six months. That season, United won the Premier League but as a result of special dispensation from the league, he did not earn a title winner’s medal.
Dublin regained fitness in the 1993-94 season, but the fruitful relationship between Cantona and Hughes reduced his first-team chances. That season, he managed five league appearances, scoring once in early April in a 3-2 home victory over Oldham Athletic. The only competitive objective that Dublin scored for United at Old Trafford was the goal against Oldham.
In December 1999, Dublin suffered a life-threatening broken neck while playing for Aston Villa against Sheffield Wednesday. In order to keep three neck vertebrae together, the fracture needed a titanium plate. Three months later he was back in action and in April 2000, helped Villa reach their first FA Cup final in 43 years. He spent several weeks on loan at First Division Millwall in 2002. He was offered a free move to Premier League side Leicester City in the summer of 2004. He scored just four goals in 38 competitive matches in his first season with the club. On 20 September 2006, Norwich City revealed that they had been joined by Dublin before the end of the season 2006-07.
He made his debut when he came on as a substitute against Plymouth Argyle on September 23, 2006. When serving as a pundit for a match between Aston Villa and Chelsea on 2 September 2007, Dublin said that this would be his last season as a professional footballer. Between 1995 and 1998, Dublin played for Coventry City. During the 1997–98 season, he won four England caps. That season, with 23 goals in all competitions, he equaled the Coventry record for most goals in a top division season. In the 1997-98 season, he was the joint top scorer in the Premier League, alongside Michael Owen and Chris Sutton. He opted to transfer to Aston Villa for £5.75 million in the autumn of 1998. He is one of only six players to score for a Premier League club in the first four consecutive matches. Dublin was omitted controversially from the 1998 FIFA World Cup squad in England.