Junior Hoilett, Canadian soccer player
David Wayne Hoilett (born June 5, 1990), known as Junior Hoilett or David Hoilett Jr., is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a winger for EFL Championship club Reading FC and the Canada national team.
After impressing in a youth tournament, Hoilett signed for English club Blackburn Rovers at the age of 13, and was loaned to SC Paderborn and FC St. Pauli in the German 2. Bundesliga due to work permit issues. He made his Rovers debut in 2009 and played three full Premier League seasons for them before a transfer to Queens Park Rangers in 2012. Hoilett spent four years at the Loftus Road club – alternately in the Premier League and Championship – before moving to Cardiff on the expiration of his contract. In his second season with Cardiff, he helped the side win promotion to the Premier League by finishing as Championship runners-up during the 2017–18 season.
Hoilett made his senior international debut for Canada in 2015. He was part of their squad at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2017, 2019 and 2021, reaching the semi-finals at the last of those tournaments.