Phillip Andrew "Phil" Roper (born 24 January 1992) is an English

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player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Dutch club Oranje-Rood in the Dutch Hoofdklasse and the

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and

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national teams.

Club career

Roper joined Dutch club Oranje-Rood for the 2021–22 season, for at least two seasons. He previously played club hockey in the

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Premier Division for

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. He started playing hockey, aged 8, for his local club Chester HC and played there for ten years before going to university, where he played for Sheffield Hallam.

International career

Roper made his international debut in 2013. He competed for England in the men's hockey tournament at the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

where he won a bronze medal. On 24 May 2017 he was named as one of a three-man captaincy group, for

and

. It was a new captaincy structure for the men's international teams. On 28 May 2021, he was selected in the England squad for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship.

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* 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Chester Male field hockey midfielders Male field hockey forwards Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England English male field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Wimbledon Hockey Club players Men's England Hockey League players Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players of Great Britain HC Oranje-Rood players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{England-fieldhockey-bio-stub