Jim Shoulder

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Jim Shoulder
Personal information
Date of birth	11 September 1946
Place of birth	Esh Winning, England
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1966-1967	Sunderland	3	(0)
1967	Vancouver Royals	5	(1)
1967-1973	Scarborough
1973-1975	Hartlepool United	63	(3)
Teams managed
1976–1978	Australia
1985	Australia national under-20 football team
2004	Singapore Armed Forces FC
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Jim Shoulder is an English former football manager and player. Most notably, he was manager of the Australian national football team from 1976 to 1978.

As a player, Shoulder spent time at Sunderland^[1], Scarborough^[2] and Hartelepool United.^[3] He was manager of the Australian national football team from 1976 to 1978, after succeeding Brian Green, who had been charged and convicted of stealing two LP records.^[4] After failing to secure Australia's qualification to the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, Shoulder was sacked,^[5] and replaced by Rudi Gutendorf. Later, Shoulder would head the Australian Institute of Sport Football Program,^[6] as well as coach the Australia national under-20 football team.^[7] Shoulder would also coach throughout Asia, and spent 10 years as manager of the Welsh under-21 team.^[2] He was the director of football academy Shinzhon Town in China, coach of academy Sheffield Wednesday, the head coach Singapore Armed Forces FC (Singapore) and worked with the academy at FC Pakhtakor.

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Name	Shoulder, Jim
Alternative names
Short description	English footballer and manager
Date of birth	11 September 1946
Place of birth	Esh Winning, England
Date of death
Place of death

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