Shaun Maloney

Shaun Richard Maloney (born 24 January 1983) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Hull City and the Scotland national team.

He started his career at Celtic, playing 215 matches across all competitions and winning honours including five Scottish Premier League titles and five Scottish Cups, spending time in England with Aston Villa between two spells at Celtic Park. He is the first player to claim both the SPFA Players' Player of the Year and the SPFA Young Player of the Year awards in the same season, doing so in 2006 during his first spell with Celtic. In 2011 he returned to England with Wigan Athletic, winning the 2013 FA Cup Final before leaving for Chicago in January 2015.

Maloney made his senior international debut for Scotland in 2005, and has since earned 44 caps, scoring seven goals.

Early life

Shaun Richard Maloney was born to an English father and Scottish mother in Miri, a coastal city in north-eastern Sarawak, Malaysia, on 24 January 1983. He spent his infancy in Malaysia while his father, a helicopter pilot and armed forces veteran, worked there as a flying instructor. The family returned to Britain when Maloney was five years old, after his father accepted a job in Aberdeen, Scotland. In a 2014 interview, Maloney said: "Although I am Scottish and play for Scotland, Malaysia will always be a special part of me."

Shaun Maloney (labor activist)

Shaun "Jack" Maloney (1911–1999) was an American labor activist active in the Midwestern United States in the 20s and 30s and the West Coast of the United States after 1942.

Maloney was born on 10 September 1911 in Minneapolis. In his early life he was known as Jack or John Severson after his step father but he began to use his biological father's name around 1936 after receiving federal documents under that name. His mother and step father were politically active with Irish nationalism and the Industrial Workers of the World and he followed in their footsteps. He participated in the Minneapolis general strike of 1934 as well as several others. In 1940 he was jailed when during a strike by the North Central District Drivers Council a delivery van was destroyed.

In 1942 to avoid the draft he joined the United States Merchant Marine. After sailing once to Russia in a convoy that suffered heavily casualties he moved to the west coast and sailed the pacific for many years and was active with the Sailors' Union of the Pacific until he was expelled over internal disagreements in 1949. He joined the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union in 1953. He was elected president of the local branch in 1970. He retired in 1976.