Khalil Vanderpool-Nurse

Khalil Vanderpool-Nurse (born 14 March 2005) is a Barbadian footballer who plays as a midfielder for UAE First Division League club Dubai City, and the Barbados national team.

Club career
Vanderpool-Nurse began playing football at age six. He first joined Kickstart FC where he remained for ten years. In 2016, he scored seventeen goals to become the MVP of the BICO Primary School Football Tournament, earning the man of the match award for the championship final victory. In 2018, he scored twenty-one goals to help Kickstart FC win the national under-13 division. In 2021, Vanderpool-Nurse decided to move abroad to continue his football career, applying to the Rossall School and Brook House College in the United Kingdom. After being accepted into both, he ultimately chose the Rossall School because of its partnership with Fleetwood Town.

After attending the Rossall School from 2021 to 2023, Vanderpool-Nurse signed for Dubai City F.C. of the UAE First Division League for the 2023–24 season.

International career
Vanderpool-Nurse was eligible to represent the United States and Barbados as citizens of both nations. At the youth level, he represented Barbados at the 2018 Caribbean Football Union U14 Boys Championships in Jamaica. He scored on his debut in the team's match against the British Virgin Islands. In 2024, he was part of the Barbados squad that competed in 2024 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying. In the competition, he scored two goals in ten minutes to defeat Saint Martin for Barbados's first win of the competition.

Vanderpool-Nurse received his first senior international call up in June 2024 for 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Curaçao and Haiti. He made his senior international debut on 9 June 2024, coming on as a substitute in the match against Haiti.