Happy Hall

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Happy Hall
Personal information
Full name Happy McNair Hall
Date of birth (1987-10-15) October 15, 1987 (age 36)
Place of birth Nassau, Bahamas
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Lyford Cay
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005–2006 Appalachian State Mountaineers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005 Bradenton Academics 5 (1)
2007 Bradenton Academics 4 (0)
2008 North York Astros 12 (0)
2009 Gosport Borough 5 (0)
2009 Bradenton Academics 13 (2)
2009–2010 Ma Pau SC 12 (0)
2011 Dayton Dutch Lions 19 (1)
2014– Lyford Cay
International career‡
Bahamas U20 [1]
Bahamas U23 [2]
2006– Bahamas 15 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of September 16, 2011
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:29, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Happy McNair Hall (born October 15, 1987) is a Bahamian international footballer who plays for local side Lyford Cay as a defender. [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Career

College and amateur

Born in Nassau, Hall played college soccer at Appalachian State University, and had three stints with the Bradenton Academics [7] in the USL Premier Development League in 2005, 2007 and 2009.

Professional

Upon graduating, Hall had a trial with Romanian outfit Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț in February 2008 [8] and briefly played with North York Astros in the Canadian Soccer League in 2008, [9] before joining English side Gosport Borough in February 2009, on a deal until the end of the 2008–09 season. [10]

Following the conclusion of the English football season, Hall returned to North America, and signed to play a third stint for Bradenton Academics in 2009, alongside his national teammate Cameron Hepple. Towards the end of the 2009 PDL season Hall went on trials and secured a deal with Ma Pau SC in the TT Pro League in Trinidad and Tobago.

On March 7, 2011 Hall signed a two-year contract with Dayton Dutch Lions of the American USL Pro league. [11]

International

Hall made his debut for the Bahamas in a September 2006 Caribbean Cup qualification match against the Cayman Islands. [12] He had earned 10 caps by November 2008, [13] four of them in World Cup qualification games. [14] Hall captained the side in the 2010 World Cup qualification matches.

International goals

Scores and results list the Bahamas' goal tally first. [13]
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.6 September 2006 Estadio Pedro Marrero, Havana, CubaFlag of the Turks and Caicos Islands.svg  Turks and Caicos Islands 2–13–2 2007 Caribbean Cup qualification
2.9 September 2019 Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau, BahamasFlag of Bonaire.svg  Bonaire 1–02–1 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League C
3.10 October 2019 Warner Park, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and NevisFlag of the British Virgin Islands.svg  British Virgin Islands 3–04–0

Personal life

Hall is founder of the YESI Soccer and Skillz Soccer Schools in the Bahamas. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "CONCACAF 2007 Under-20 Tournament Recap". Issuu . Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying 2008". Issuu . Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "thebahamasweekly.com - CFL Football and USL Soccer Players meet Bahamas Minister of Youth, Sports & Culture". www.thebahamasweekly.com.
  4. ↑ "Happy Hall named to USL Pro Team of the Week | The Bahamas, Bahamas | Bahamas Local News - The Bahamas, Bahamas". www.bahamaslocal.com.
  5. ↑ "Rare chance for 'budding' soccer stars". www.tribune242.com.
  6. ↑ "Rising Soccer stars get the chance of a lifetime". www.tribune242.com.
  7. ↑ Soccer Outlook Part II – Nassau Guardian
  8. ↑ Happy Hall in teste la Ceahlaul – Onlinesport (in Romanian)
  9. ↑ "North York Astros profile".
  10. ↑ "Pike Happy to trial Hall". Gosport Borough F.C. official website. 23 February 2009. Retrieved 23 February 2009.[ dead link ]
  11. ↑ Dutch Lions Sign Hall, Leerdam Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ "Caribbean Football Database profile". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
  13. 1 2 Happy Hall at National-Football-Teams.com
  14. ↑ Happy Hall – FIFA competition record (archived)
  15. ↑ Our coaching staff Archived 2016-04-12 at the Wayback Machine – Skillz Soccer Bahamas


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