{{Multiple issues| {{notability|1=Sport|date=October 2025}} {{BLP sources|date=October 2025}} }} {{Short description|Pakistani footballer (born 1959)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Samuel Gill | image = File:Samuel Gill 1986 (cropped).jpg | caption = Gill with Pakistan at the 1986 Fajr International Tournament | image_size = | fullname = Samuel Gill | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1959|5|5}} | birth_place = Lahore, Pakistan | height = | position = Defender | years1 = | clubs1 = Lahore Division | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = | clubs2 = Pakistan Railways | caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = | clubs3 = | caps3 = | goals3 = | nationalyears1 = 1986 | nationalteam1 = Pakistan | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = }}
'''Samuel Gill''' (born 5 May 1959) is a former Pakistani footballer who played as a defender. He represented the Pakistan national team at the 1986 Asian Games.<ref name=":PAK">{{Cite book |last=Bhatti |first=Mukhtar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3vhOwAACAAJ |title=Pakistan Sports: An Almanac of Pakistan Sports with Complete Records 1947-1999 |date=1999 |publisher=Bhatti Publications |pages=237–250 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-03-31 |title=Pakistan-India football series to go ahead |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/387196/pakistan-india-football-series-to-go-ahead |access-date=2025-11-22 |website=Dawn |language=en}}</ref>
== Early life == Gill comes from a Christian family which lived in Lahore. His brothers Emmanuel Gill, Lazar Gill, Ezra Gill, David Gill, and Daniel Gill have all played football.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Daniel Gill of Lahore makes Guineas World Record for Pakistan |url=https://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/head-line-news-details/3888 |access-date=2025-10-15 |website=www.pakistanchristianpost.com |language=en}}</ref>
== Club career == Gill represented the Lahore Division and Pakistan Railways in the National Football Championship in the 1980s.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Strack-Zimmermann |first=Benjamin |title=Samuel Gill (Player) |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/96119/Samuel_Gill.html |access-date=2025-10-15 |website=www.national-football-teams.com |language=en}}</ref>
== International career ==
In 1986, Gill was selected to represent the Pakistan national team for the 1986 Fajr International Tournament.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1986 Fajr International Tournament |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesf/fajr86.html |access-date=2025-11-22 |website=www.rsssf.org}}</ref> He also participated for the Pakistan Greens side in the 1986 Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament.<ref name=":1" /> The same year, Gill served as vice-captain of the national team for the 1986 Asian Games held in Seoul, South Korea.<ref name=":PAK" />
== Personal life == Gill's brothers Emmanuel Gill, Lazar Gill, Ezra Gill, Daniel Gill, and David Gill, have all played football for various different clubs and organisations. His brother Daniel Gill is a youth coach for "Model Town Football Academy".<ref name=":0" /> Daniel Gill along with his fellow mate Qamar Rizwan also hold a Guinness World Record for the most knocks of a football in 335 times with his forehead in 4 minutes and 46 seconds.<ref name=":0" />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, Samuel}} Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:Pakistani men's footballers Category:Pakistan men's international footballers Category:Footballers from Lahore Category:Pakistani Christians Category:Footballers at the 1986 Asian Games Category:Asian Games footballers for Pakistan Category:Men's association football defenders Category:Pakistan Railways F.C. players Category:20th-century Pakistani sportsmen