Vic Rouse (footballer, born 1936)

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Vic Rouse
Personal information
Full name Raymond Victor Rouse
Date of birth (1936-03-16) 16 March 1936 (age 89)
Place of birth Swansea, Wales
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Millwall
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1954–1956 Millwall 0 (0)
1956–1963 Crystal Palace 238 (0)
1963 Northampton Town 0 (0)
1963–1965 Oxford United 22 (0)
1965–1967 Leyton Orient 40 (0)
1967–1972 Atlanta Chiefs 61 (0)
Total361(0)
International career
1959 Wales 1 (0)
Managerial career
1969–1972 Atlanta Chiefs
1972–xxxx Metropolitan Police
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Raymond Victor Rouse [1] (born 16 March 1936) is a Welsh former footballer and coach who played at both professional and international levels as a goalkeeper, before becoming a football manager.

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Playing career

Born in Swansea, Rouse played in the English Football League for Crystal Palace, Oxford United and Leyton Orient. [2] He was also a player with Millwall (as an amateur) [3] and Northampton Town without making a League appearance for either club. Rouse later played in the North American Soccer League for the Atlanta Chiefs. [4]

Rouse earned one cap at full international level for Wales. [2] Rouse became the first ever international player from the old Fourth Division when he appeared in 1959. [3] [5]

Coaching career

Rouse had been attracted to the Chiefs as part of Phil Woosnam's team when his Welsh comnpatriot was appointed the club's first head coach in 1967. Woosnam left the Chiefs at the end of the 1968 NASL to become Commissioner of the NASL and ahead of the 1969 season, Rouse was appointed player-manager of the Chiefs. After retiring as a player in 1972, he returned to England to become manager of Metropolitan Police. [2] He was still managing Metropolitan Police as of 1982. [6]

Personal life

Rouse's parents were English. His father, also called Vic, was a a professional footballer who had played in Wales and had returned to Wales by the time Rouse was born in 1936. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Purkiss, Mike; Sands, Nigel. Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–1989. The Breedon Books Publishing Company. p. 338. ISBN   0907969542.
  2. 1 2 3 "Player profile". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  3. 1 2 Purkiss, Mike; Sands, Nigel. Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–1989. The Breedon Books Publishing Company. p. 86. ISBN   0907969542.
  4. ↑ "Player profile". NASL Jerseys. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  5. ↑ "Quirky Facts". Goalkeepers Are Different. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  6. ↑ "Player profile". Crystal Palace F.C. official website. Archived from the original on 8 January 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  7. ↑ Davies, Gareth M.; Garland, Ian. Who's Who Of Welsh International Soccer Players. Bridge Books. p. 184. ISBN   1872424112.


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