Happy Hall
Personal information
Full name Happy McNair Hall
Date of birth (1987-10-15) October 15, 1987
Place of birth Nassau, Bahamas
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Lyford Cay
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2006 Appalachian State Mountaineers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005 Bradenton Academics 5 (1)
2007 Bradenton Academics 4 (0)
2008 North York Astros 12 (0)
2009 Gosport Borough 5 (0)
2009 Bradenton Academics 13 (2)
2009–2010 Ma Pau SC 12 (0)
2011 Dayton Dutch Lions 19 (1)
2014– Lyford Cay
International career‡
Bahamas U20[1]
Bahamas U23[2]
2006– Bahamas 15 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of September 16, 2011
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:29, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Happy McNair Hall (born October 15, 1987) is a Bahamian international footballer who plays for local side Lyford Cay as a defender.[3][4][5][6]

Career

College and amateur

Born in Nassau, Hall played college soccer at Appalachian State University, and had three stints with the Bradenton Academics[7] in the USL Premier Development League in 2005, 2007 and 2009.

Professional

Upon graduating, Hall had a trial with Romanian outfit Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț in February 2008[8] and briefly played with North York Astros in the Canadian Soccer League in 2008,[9] before joining English side Gosport Borough in February 2009, on a deal until the end of the 2008–09 season.[10]

Following the conclusion of the English football season, Hall returned to North America, and signed to play a third stint for Bradenton Academics in 2009, alongside his national teammate Cameron Hepple. Towards the end of the 2009 PDL season Hall went on trials and secured a deal with Ma Pau SC in the TT Pro League in Trinidad and Tobago.

On March 7, 2011 Hall signed a two-year contract with Dayton Dutch Lions of the American USL Pro league.[11]

International

Hall made his debut for the Bahamas in a September 2006 Caribbean Cup qualification match against the Cayman Islands.[12] He had earned 10 caps by November 2008,[13] four of them in World Cup qualification games.[14] Hall captained the side in the 2010 World Cup qualification matches.

International goals

Scores and results list the Bahamas' goal tally first.[13]
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.6 September 2006Estadio Pedro Marrero, Havana, Cuba Turks and Caicos Islands2–13–22007 Caribbean Cup qualification
2.9 September 2019Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau, Bahamas Bonaire1–02–12019–20 CONCACAF Nations League C
3.10 October 2019Warner Park, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis British Virgin Islands3–04–0

Personal life

Hall is founder of the YESI Soccer and Skillz Soccer Schools in the Bahamas.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "CONCACAF 2007 Under-20 Tournament Recap". Issuu. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying 2008". Issuu. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "thebahamasweekly.com - CFL Football and USL Soccer Players meet Bahamas Minister of Youth, Sports & Culture". www.thebahamasweekly.com.
  4. ↑ "Happy Hall named to USL Pro Team of the Week | The Bahamas, Bahamas | Bahamas Local News - The Bahamas, Bahamas". www.bahamaslocal.com.
  5. ↑ "Rare chance for 'budding' soccer stars". www.tribune242.com.
  6. ↑ "Rising Soccer stars get the chance of a lifetime". www.tribune242.com.
  7. ↑ Soccer Outlook Part II – Nassau Guardian
  8. ↑ Happy Hall in teste la Ceahlaul – Onlinesport (in Romanian)
  9. ↑ "North York Astros profile".
  10. ↑ "Pike Happy to trial Hall". Gosport Borough F.C. official website. 23 February 2009. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
  11. ↑ Dutch Lions Sign Hall, Leerdam Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ "Caribbean Football Database profile". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
  13. 1 2 Happy Hall at National-Football-Teams.com
  14. ↑ Happy Hall – FIFA competition record (archived)
  15. ↑ Our coaching staff Archived 2016-04-12 at the Wayback Machine – Skillz Soccer Bahamas


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