Steve Harper
Harper playing for Newcastle United in 2010
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Stephen Alan Harper | ||
| Date of birth | 14 March 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Seaham, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
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Current team
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Newcastle United (academy goalkeeping coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1992–1993 | Seaham Red Star | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–2013 | Newcastle United | 157 | (0) |
| 1995 | → Bradford City (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 1996 | → Gateshead (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 1997 | → (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 1997 | → Hartlepool United (loan) | 15 | (0) |
| 1997–1998 | → Huddersfield Town (loan) | 24 | (0) |
| 2011 | → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2013–2015 | Hull City | 23 | (0) |
| 2016 | Sunderland | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 237 | (0) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2016– | Newcastle United (academy goalkeeper coach) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:56, 28 May 2015 (UTC). |
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"I hadn't played for a while ... you're walking along shaking hands and you're thinking 'That's Pavel Nedvěd and that's Del Piero' and there's the Champions League music blaring."
Stephen Alan "Steve" Harper (born 14 March 1975) is a former English professional footballer, and currently an academy goalkeeping coach for Newcastle United. He is best known for his time playing at Newcastle United, having amassed 157 league appearances over a twenty-year period between 1993 and 2013. Although he was not always the first-choice goalkeeper at Newcastle, he was the longest-serving player in the club's history.
Harper was born in Seaham, County Durham. He grew up in the mining village of Easington, County Durham, and studied Sport at the East Durham College. He was interested in football from a young age and goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar was his idol.Anfield was the first football ground he went to, where he watched Liverpool win a match 2–0 in the 1982–83 season. Harper attended Easington Comprehensive School. He was offered a place at Liverpool John Moores University.
In 1993, he was signed by Newcastle United from his local club Seaham Red Star, for a nominal fee.
Seen as back-up to first-choice goalkeeper Pavel Srníček after his arrival at Newcastle, and then Shaka Hislop and subsequently Shay Given; he had loan spells at Bradford City, Gateshead, , Hartlepool United and Huddersfield Town before making his first-team debut as a half time substitute against Wimbledon in 1998. At this point Harper achieved the rare feat of making an appearance in each of the top five divisions of the English game.
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