{"aliases":[],"awards":[],"biography_summary":"Clinton Drew Dempsey (; born March 9, 1983) is an American former professional soccer player who is a sports analyst on the television program Soccer on CBS Sports. He played as a forward and midfielder for Premier League clubs Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur and in Major League Soccer for clubs New England Revolution and Seattle Sounders FC. Widely considered as one of the greatest American players of all time, he was one of his country's most important trailblazers in Europe, and is tied with Landon Donovan for the record of most international goals scored by an American player (57). A native of Nacogdoches, Texas, Dempsey spent his youth career with the Dallas Texans before joining Furman University's men's soccer team in 2001. In 2004, he was drafted by the New England Revolution, where he was named MLS Rookie of the Year in 2004 and named to the MLS Best XI in 2005 and 2006. In 2007, Dempsey signed for Premier League club Fulham for \u00a32 million. With Fulham, he was an integral part of the team that were runners-up to Atl\u00e9tico Madrid for the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League. He was awarded Fulham Player of the Season for 2010\u201311 and 2011\u201312, where he was the club's top scorer for both. In 2012, Dempsey became the first American player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League. He is Fulham's all-time top Premier League goalscorer with 50 goals. In 2012, Tottenham Hotspur signed Dempsey for a fee of $9.6 million, then a league record signing for an American.","birth_date":"1983-03-09","birth_place":"Nacogdoches","birth_place_coordinates":{"latitude":31.608889,"longitude":-94.650833},"birth_place_wikidata_id":"Q970482","birth_place_wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q970482","canonical_name":"Clint Dempsey","canonical_url":"https://zh-cn.instaget.online/people/9e3dcb42d7ca20dc40f8c0f0","citizenships":["United States"],"death_date":null,"description":"American soccer player","external_ids":{"imdb":{"id":"nm3963444","url":"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3963444/"}},"full_name":"Clint Dempsey","height_cm":185.0,"names":{"aliases":["Clinton Drew \"Clint\" Dempsey"],"birth":[],"native":[],"official":[]},"native_name":null,"notable_works":[],"occupations":["association football player"],"official_websites":[],"photo":null,"profile_url":"https://zh-cn.instaget.online/people/9e3dcb42d7ca20dc40f8c0f0","provenance":{"catalog":"wikidata_wikipedia","fetched_at":"2026-08-29T06:30:46Z","social_archives_included":false,"source_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201860"},"public_hash":"9e3dcb42d7ca20dc40f8c0f0","schema_version":"1.1","socials":{"facebook":{"handle":"clintdempsey23","url":"https://www.facebook.com/clintdempsey23"},"instagram":{"handle":"clint_dempsey","url":"https://www.instagram.com/clint_dempsey/"},"twitter":{"handle":"clint_dempsey","url":"https://x.com/clint_dempsey"}},"tags":[{"key":"category:sports","label":"Sports","type":"category"},{"key":"occupation:association football player","label":"association football player","type":"occupation"},{"key":"country:nacogdoches","label":"Nacogdoches","type":"country"},{"key":"citizenship:united states","label":"United States","type":"citizenship"}],"wikidata_id":"Q201860","wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201860","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Dempsey"}