Shaka Hislop

Neil Shaka Hislop is currently the soccer analyst and commentator for ESPN. When off the air, he is a founder/patron and Honorary President of the UK’s anti-racism educational charity ‘Show Racism the Red Card’. In 2019 he founded the Second Half Sport Foundation which collects second-hand and used soccer equipment for distribution and use by the TT Police Service in their kids and community outreach programs in some of T&T’s most at-risk communities.

Shaka’s 15 plus years soccer career included being a member of Trinidad and Tobago’s 2006 FIFA World Cup team; 1 year on the US’s Major League Soccer and 14 years on the English Soccer circuit which resulted in him being the only non-British to join Brazilian soccer legend Pele on the Honor Roll of the English Professional Footballers Association’s ‘Special Merit Listing.

Shaka is an inductee of Howard University’s Athletic Hall of Fame and Trinidad and Tobago’s Sports Hall of Fame. In 2006, he was awarded Trinidad and Tobago’s 2nd highest national award ‘The Chaconia Medal’ and in 2007, he received the ‘Alexander B. Chapman Award’ from the T&T Olympic Committee. Both awards recognized his outstanding contribution to sport.

Shaka is a Howard University graduate with a BSc. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA.

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