Ray Newland

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Ray Newland
Personal information
Full name Raymond James Newland [1]
Date of birth (1971-07-19) 19 July 1971 (age 51)
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1987–198? Chester City
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Winsford United
Newtown
St Helens Town 0 (0)
1989–1991 Everton
1990–1993 Plymouth Argyle 26 (0)
1993–1995 Chester City 11 (0)
1995–1997 Torquay United 28 (0)
1997–1999 Leek Town
1999 Clydebank 1 (0)
Wigan Athletic
Leigh RMI
Runcorn
Bangor City
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Raymond James Newland (born 19 July 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Career

Newland began his career as a trainee with Chester City, [2] before joining Winsford United. He then moved to Welsh side Newtown where he won both players and supporters player of the year in his first season. He then spent two years at Everton before moving to Plymouth Argyle in July 1990 after Wales goalkeeping legend Neville Southall had recommended him to Plymouth manager and ex-England goalkeeper Peter Shilton.

Newland's goalkeeping career then took him to other professional clubs that included, another spell at Chester City, Torquay United, Leek Town, Clydebank in the Scottish league before returning to England and signing for Wigan Athletic.

Newland then had a training ground injury while playing for Wigan Athletic that finished his career aged just 28. However he started Just4keepers goalkeeper training schools, [3] and in 2010, he also brought out his own goalkeeper sports and goalkeeping glove brand J4K. [4]

Just4keepers went on to be one of the largest goalkeeper schools globally. [3] One of Newland's ex students is Adam Davies who is a Welsh international. Another is actor Bobby Schofield who is the son of Liverpool actor Andrew Schofield. Alongside his goalkeeper brand and enterprises, Newland is also a business coach and has published six books on mental strength and self help.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

Newland is married to his long-term girlfriend Paula who first met aged just six. They have two daughters together, Ashleigh Rae and Mckenzie Rae. They married on Christmas Eve in 2014 and had over 600 guests in a church that sat 400 people and his wedding unofficially broke the Guinness World Records when he had 147 best men who were all his current goalkeeper students at the time.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (1998). The PFA Premier and Football League Players' Records 1946-1998. Queen Anne Press. ISBN   1-85291-585-4.
  2. ↑ "City Travel". Chester City . Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Palm Coast lands international goalkeeping academy | Palm Coast". Palm Coast Observer. 27 March 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  4. ↑ Neil Hodgson (15 January 2010). "Former Everton FC goalkeeper Ray Newland launches his own line of goalkeeping gloves to help budding talent". Liverpool Echo . Retrieved 27 April 2022.
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