Rhian Dodds is Canadian

Canada

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 footballer who currently plays as a midfielder

Midfielder

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 with Hamilton Croatia

Hamilton Croatia

Hamilton Croatia is a Croatian Canadian amateur soccer team founded in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1957. It is supported by the Croatian Sports and Community Centre of Hamilton Inc...

 in the Canadian Soccer League

Canadian Soccer League

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. He also holds British

United Kingdom

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 citizenship, but represented Canada

Canada

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 internationally on the Under-20 level.

Dodds grew up in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, Canada

Canada

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. He attended Robert Morris University

Robert Morris University

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, playing for the Colonials before joining Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock F.C.

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. He was given the nickname "Dick Turpin

Dick Turpin

Richard "Dick" Turpin was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's profession as a butcher early in life, but by the early 1730s he had joined a gang of deer thieves, and later became a poacher,...

" after scoring a late winner against Motherwell at Fir Park in season 2006-2007 by the stadium announcer, insinuating that Kilmarnock had "stolen" the victory with virtually the last kick of the ball.

Rhian's younger brother Jamie Dodds

Jamie Dodds

Jamie Dodds is a Canadian soccer player who plays for Hamilton Croatia in the Canadian Soccer League....

 is a professional soccer player as well.

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