David Watson (footballer born 1973)

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David Watson
Personal information
Date of birth 10 November 1973 (1973-11-10) (age 34)
Place of birth    Barnsley, England
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position Goalkeeper (retired)
Youth clubs
Barnsley
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1992–2001 Barnsley 178 (0)   
National team
1993–1995 England U21 005 (0)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

David Watson (born 10 November 1973) is a former English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Barnsley and England under-21. He now works as goalkeeping coach for Birmingham City.

Watson was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. He began his football career in the youth system of his home-town club and went on to make more than 200 appearances for their first team in all competitions, including 178 in league matches. He helped the club to runners-up spot in Division One in the 1996–97 season to gain promotion to the Premier League and was first choice goalkeeper in their one season in the top flight. He suffered a knee injury in a game against Norwich City in September 1998; he spent more than two years in an abortive attempt to regain fitness but played no more first-team football and retired in 2001 at the age of 28.[1]

While at Barnsley Watson represented England in the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship,[2] where they finished in third place and won the FIFA fair play award.[3] He also won five caps for England at under-21 level.[4]

He went on to work as goalkeeping coach with Northampton Town, Oldham Athletic,[1] Huddersfield Town,[5] Northampton Town again, the England under-19 team[6] and Nottingham Forest[7] before replacing Nigel Spink as goalkeeping coach of Birmingham City in January 2008.[8]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Watson joins Oldham", BBC, 2002-01-09. Retrieved on 2008-01-10. 
  2. ^ England. FIFA (1993). Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
  3. ^ Awards. FIFA (1993). Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
  4. ^ England - U-21 International Results 1986-1995 - Details. RSSSF (2004-01-10). Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
  5. ^ "Wadsworth appoints Wilkes", BBC, 2002-07-09. Retrieved on 2008-01-10. 
  6. ^ "Cobblers coach given England role", BBC, 2005-11-08. Retrieved on 2008-01-10. 
  7. ^ "Forest name new goalkeeping coach", BBC, 2006-06-12. Retrieved on 2008-01-10. 
  8. ^ "Watson is Blues' new keeper coach", BBC, 2008-01-10. Retrieved on 2008-01-10. 

[edit] External links

David Watson career stats at Soccerbase

Persondata
NAME Watson, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH 1973-11-10
PLACE OF BIRTH Barnsley, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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