Eddie Tembo (born 1980) is a
Zambian-born Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
international
shinty
Shinty ( gd, camanachd, iomain) is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread in Scotland, an ...
player from the
village
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of
Drumnadrochit
Drumnadrochit (; gd, Druim na Drochaid) is a village in the Highland local government council area of Scotland, lying near the west shore of Loch Ness at the foot of Glen Urquhart. The village is close to several neighbouring settlements: the vi ...
.
He plays for
Glenurquhart Shinty Club
Glenurquhart Shinty Club is a shinty team which plays in Drumnadrochit on the banks of Loch Ness, Scotland. It draws its players from the part of the Great Glen which encompasses Drumnadrochit, Lewiston and Glenurquhart. The club has been exist ...
and was a member of the North Division One Championship side in 2008. In 2008, he was selected for the
Compromise rules Shinty/Hurling
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international with
Ireland
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, in being so he became the first
black person
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and first person of Zambian birth to represent
Scotland
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at shinty. He scored a point on his debut.
References
1980 births
Living people
Shinty players
Black British sportspeople
Zambian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Sportspeople from Highland (council area)
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