Kevin Kyle
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| Kevin Kyle | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kevin Kyle | |
| Date of birth | June 7, 1981 (age 25) | |
| Place of birth | Stranraer, Scotland | |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | |
| Nickname | Scaldin' Balls | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Coventry City | |
| Number | 10 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2000-2006 2000 2000-2001 2001 2006- |
Sunderland Huddersfield Town (loan) Darlington (loan) Rochdale (loan) Coventry City |
91 (11) 4 (0) 5 (1) 6 (0) 20 (2) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2002-2004 | Scotland | 9 (1) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Kevin Kyle (born 7 June 1981) is a Scottish football striker. He currently plays for English club Coventry City.
After breaking into the Sunderland first team in the 2003-2004 season he ended up finishing as their joint top goal scorer with 16 goals. He missed most of the 2004-2005 season owing to a hip injury and his recovery was aided by visits to Bayern Munich doctor Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfarth[1]. He returned to first team action in February 2006, scoring his first Premiership goal in March 2006 with a smug finish from a yard, away to Manchester City.
In 2006 Kyle received the dubious nickname of "Scaldin' Balls" from the Mirror, a parody of David Beckham's "golden balls" nickname, after Kyle missed one of Sunderland's crucial survival battle matches after scalding his testicles with boiling water whilst feeding his young son.
He has been capped by Scotland on 9 occasions, scoring once.
Kyle joined Coventry City on the August 25, 2006, for a reported fee of £600,000.[1]
In the early hours of October 8, 2006, Kyle was arrested in Stranraer after a brawl. On March 12, 2007 he was convicted of two breaches of the peace in relation to the arrest.[2]
A month earlier, Kyle had received a six month driving ban in relation to charges of driving without due care and attention on the A75 near Newton Stewart on September 1, 2006.[3]
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| Coventry City F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Steele | 2 Whing | 3 Hall | 4 Page | 5 Ward | 6 Hughes | 8 Doyle | 9 Adebola | 10 Kyle | 11 Birchall | 13 Lee-Barrett | 14 Fadiga | 15 McKenzie | 16 Osbourne | 17 Mifsud | 18 McNamee | 19 Giddings | 20 Hawkins | 21 Tabb | 22 Hutchison | 23 Cameron | 24 Bunce | 25 Virgo | 29 Thornton | 30 Davis | 31 Lynch | 33 Marshall | 43 Belford | Manager: Dowie |
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