James Belshaw: the goalkeeper with two degrees and a second world war thesis
Harrogate player says he might have gone to medical school but for football and took a 50% pay cut to pursue his dream
Harrogate Town’s James Belshaw loves diving around in Yorkshire mud at training as he lives out a dream that was slipping away in his mid-20s. But in addition to being the club’s No 1, he is the person players and staff turn to for advice on mortgages, investments and everything in between. He certainly knows how to save.
Belshaw’s CV could walk him into most industries; 10 A*s and 2 As at GCSE, three As at A-level and two degrees, in history and business markets and management. He also has an impressive ability to rattle off the names of Football League clubs. After graduating from Duke University in North Carolina, Nottingham-born Belshaw rejected the chance to join Chicago Fire, eventually going part-time in the sixth tier in England, while managing a software engineering company, and will face Cheltenham in League Two on Saturday.
