Kevin Hitchcock
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Kevin Hitchcock | ||
Personal information | ||
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Full name | Kevin Hitchcock | |
Date of birth | October 5, 1962 | |
Place of birth | Canning Town, England | |
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |
Playing position | Goalkeeper | |
Club information | ||
Current club | Blackburn Rovers (Goalkeeper coach) |
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Youth clubs | ||
1982-1983 | Barking | |
Senior clubs1 | ||
Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
1983-1984 1984 1984-1988 1988-2001 1990 2001-2004 |
Nottingham Forest → Mansfield Town (loan) Mansfield Town Chelsea → Northampton Town (loan) Watford |
14 (0) 168 (0) 96 (0) 17 (0) 0 (0) |
0 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals |
Kevin Hitchcock (born October 5, 1962 in Canning Town, England) is a former Goalkeeper and spent most of his career at Chelsea. He is currently employed as the goalkeeper coach at Blackburn Rovers.
He made his First Team debut on the 26th of March, 1988 in a 1-0 defeat to Southampton. He was at Chelsea from 1988-2001 and made 96 league appearances, 4 of which were from the bench. He left Chelsea in 2001 to take up the post of goalkeeper coach at Watford who had just appointed his former Chelsea boss Gianluca Vialli as their new manager. He left Watford in 2004 to team up with ex Chelsea team mate Mark Hughes at Blackburn.