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| Full name | Alan Edward Davidson | ||
| Date of birth | 1 June 1960 | ||
| Place of birth | Altona North, Melbourne, Australia | ||
| Playing position | Utility, Sweeper, Right Back, Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Altona City SC | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1976–1977 | Altona City SC | 36 | |
| 1978–1984 | South Melbourne | 142 | (10) |
| 1984–1985 | Nottingham Forest | ||
| 1986 | South Melbourne | 13 | (3) |
| 1987–1992 | Melbourne Croatia | 133 | (8) |
| 1994–1996 | South Melbourne | 8 | (0) |
| 1992–1996 | Pahang FA | ||
| 1995–1996 | South Melbourne | 7 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | Collingwood Warriors | 10 | (0) |
| 1997–1998 | Melbourne Knights | 13 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1979 | Australia U-20 | 10 | |
| 1980–1991 | Australia | 79 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2000 | Whittlesea Zebras | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 August 2007. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Alan Edward Davidson (born in Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian football (soccer) player. His mother is Japanese.
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Davidson began his domestic senior football career in 1976 and 1977, playing for Altona City SC which had been his junior club. The following year, he transferred to South Melbourne, where he played until the end of the 1984 season, making 155 appearances and scoring 13 goals.
He moved to England for the 1984-85 season for Nottingham Forest F.C. and a promising start where he broke into the first team as a right-back was curtailed by illness after suffering a nasty blow to the head an having seizure during a reserve game one freezing night which sidelined him till the end of the season. He resume training and playing for the first team and suffered a serious back injury which had sidelined him for over a year which forced him into early retirement and returned home to Melbourne. He resumed playing in Australia at the end of 1986 for South Melbourne and in 1987 transferred to Melbourne Croatia, making 133 appearances and scoring 10 goals from 1987 to the end of the 1991-92 season and transferred to M-League club Pahang FA in Malaysia during 1992 where he was voted the League's best player, guiding the team to the M-League Championship and Malaysian Cup double.
Near the end of his playing career, he guested for South Melbourne FC for two seasons, (1994–95 and 1995–96), while with the Malaysian club, Pahang FA in between (1992–96). His penultimate season (1996–97) he guested with the Collingwood Warriors, and his last season (1997–98) was back with the [Melbourne Knights].
He finally retired in 1998 at the age of 38 after 3 World Cup campaigns and 1 Olympic Games: 1988 Seoul Olympics he was the only foreign player ever to be honored and received an AMP awarded by the Sultan of Pahang FA in 1996 and was inducted to the Football Federation Australia Hall of Champions in 2001.
His first Australian representative honours were in 1978-79 during the Under 19 World Youth Cup, qualifiers in New Zealand and Paraguay and made 10 youth appearances.
He was a defender and won 79 international caps (54 in official FIFA matches) between 1980 and 1991 with the Socceroos, the Australian national football team, scoring 2 goals in those appearances.
With Australia:
With Collingwood Warriors:
With Melbourne Knights:
With South Melbourne FC:
With Pahang FA:
Personal Honours:
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