Nick Blackman

Nick Blackman was born in 1989 in Salford

Blackman was born on 11 November 1989 in Salford, England. His mother is Jewish and English, and his father comes from Barbados. His maternal grandfather was a Holocaust survivor, and he had a Bar Mitzvah.

As a boy he trained at the Manchester United academy and later at Bury and Preston North End. He went to King David High School and then Phillips High School in Manchester. At 13 he played in the Maccabiah Games in Israel with a British schools team.

He signed his first professional contract with Macclesfield Town in 2007 and joined Blackburn Rovers in 2009. Blackburn loaned him to Blackpool, Oldham Athletic, Motherwell and Aberdeen. He then played for Sheffield United, Reading from 2013 and Derby County from 2016.

In 2017 Derby loaned him to Maccabi Tel Aviv, and in 2018 to Sporting de Gijón in Spain. He returned to Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2019 and won the Israeli league title with the club. He left Maccabi in 2021 when his contract ended.

In 2019 he chose to play for Barbados. He scored twice in his first match for the team, a 4-0 win over Saint Martin.