John Paskin

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John Paskin
Personal information
Full name William John Paskin
Date of birth (1962-02-01) 1 February 1962 (age 61)
Place of birth Cape Town, South Africa
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1980–1983 Hellenic
1984 Toronto Blizzard 16 (10)
1984–1985 South China AA 16 (10)
1985–1986 Seiko SA
1986–1988 K.V. Kortrijk 11 (0)
1988–1989 West Bromwich Albion 25 (5)
1989–1992 Wolverhampton Wanderers 34 (3)
1991 → Stockport County (loan) 5 (1)
1991–1992 → Birmingham City (loan) 10 (3)
1992 → Shrewsbury Town (loan) 1 (0)
1992–1994 Wrexham 51 (11)
1994–1996 Bury 38 (8)
1996 Cape Town Spurs 2 (0)
1996 Fredrikstad FK 6 (3)
1997–1998 Hellenic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William John Paskin (born 1 February 1962) is a South African former professional footballer who made 164 appearances in the Football League playing for West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Stockport County, Birmingham City, Shrewsbury Town, Wrexham and Bury. [1] He also played in South Africa, in the North American Soccer League, in Hong Kong, Belgium and Norway. He played as a forward.

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Career

Paskin was born in Cape Town. He began his football career domestically with Hellenic, [2] then spent the 1984 North American Soccer League season with Toronto Blizzard. He played 16 games and scored 10 goals, [3] including scoring in the second game of the three-game Championship Game series: Toronto lost that game 3–2 and lost the series 2–0 to the Chicago Sting. [4] Paskin's next port of call was Hong Kong, where he played for South China and Seiko, and represented Hong Kong against the South Korean national team in the 1986 Chinese New Year Cup. [5] In the 1986–87 Belgian First Division season, he played for K.V. Kortrijk. [6]

Paskin made his Football League debut for West Bromwich Albion in the 1988–99 season, and played 25 league games before moving on to Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fee of £75,000 at the end of the season. He scored only three goals in his 34 league appearances for the club, and spent periods on loan at Stockport County, Birmingham City and Shrewsbury Town, before joining Wrexham on a free transfer in February 1992. Paskin scored 14 goals from 60 games in all competitions for the club, and in July 1994 signed for Bury on a free transfer. [7] He played quite frequently in his first season at Bury, though more often as a substitute, then sustained an injury which kept him out for much of the 1995–96 season. By the end of that season he was anxious to leave the club, and was released in May 1996. [8]

He spent a few weeks with Fredrikstad FK in the Norwegian Second Division [9] before finishing his career in his native South Africa with his former club Hellenic. [10]

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  4. ↑ "Championship Game Summaries". National Soccer Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 26 August 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  5. ↑ Yoon, Hyung-Jin (5 March 2005). "South Korea International Matches – Details 1985–1989". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  6. ↑ "Competitie 1986–87, Speeldag 10 KV Kortrijk – Club Brugge 0–0". Club Brugge. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  7. ↑ "John Paskin". Soccerbase. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
  8. ↑ "Shakers defend Paskin decision". The Bolton News. 8 May 1996. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  9. ↑ "John William Paskin" (in Norwegian). FFKsupporter.net. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
  10. ↑ "Bucks go six points clear". Daily Dispatch. East London. South African Press Association. 16 October 1997. p. 20. Archived from the original on 17 February 2005. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
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