Paul Rideout
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 14 August 1964 | ||
Place of birth | Bournemouth, England | ||
Position(s) |
Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Sereno Soccer Club (Club coach) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1980–1983 | Swindon Town | 95 | (38) |
1983–1985 | Aston Villa | 54 | (19) |
1985–1988 |
Bari | 99 | (23) |
1988–1991 | Southampton | 75 | (19) |
1990–1991 | → Swindon Town (loan) | 9 | (1) |
1991 | Notts County | 11 | (3) |
1992 | Rangers | 12 | (1) |
1992–1997 | Everton | 112 | (29) |
1997 |
Qianwei Huandao | 18 | (2) |
1998–1999 | Kansas City Wizards | 27 | (4) |
1999 |
Chongqing Longxin | 26 | (2) |
2000 | Shenzhen Pingan | 10 | (0) |
2000–2002 | Tranmere Rovers | 46 | (6) |
Total | 594 | (147) | |
International career | |||
1984–1986 |
England U21 | 6 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Paul Rideout (born 14 August 1964) is an English former professional footballer and youth team coach of Major League Soccer side Sporting Kansas City.[1]
As a player, he was a
Club career
Swindon Town
Rideout's career began as a 15-year-old at
Aston Villa
He scored five goals in 25 league games during his first season as a First Division player at
Bari & Southampton
Then came a transfer to Italian team Bari, where Rideout spent three years before returning to England in a £430,000 move to Southampton on 5 July 1988.
Rideout was initially a regular first team player at The Dell, but the arrival of Iain Dowie in March 1991 cost him his place in the side after 71 league games and 19 goals, and he then dropped down a division with a nine-game loan spell at Swindon Town, where he scored once, before returning to Southampton for the 1991–92 season.[2]
Notts County
He made four more appearances for The Saints, failing to score a goal, before he was sold to
Rangers
He joined Rangers for £500,000 on 10 January 1992. He scored once in 11 games, providing adequate backup for the strike partnership of Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist, as Rangers won the double of the Scottish Premier Division and SFA Cup, and played one game in the 1992–93 Scottish league season.
Everton
He returned to England in a £500,000 move to Everton on 14 August 1992 – the day before their first game in the new Premier League. Among his fellow strikers was Mo Johnston – the player whose gap he had effectively filled at Rangers just months earlier.[3]
Rideout's first season at Goodison Park was something of a disappointment, as he managed just three goals in 24 games and was unable to break up the strike partnership of Peter Beardsley and Tony Cottee, and it was a similar story the following season (despite Beardsley's departure to Newcastle United) as he managed just 24 league appearances once again, though he did improve his goals tally to six for the 1993–94 season. It was not a good time for Everton, either, as their Premier League debut had brought them a 13th-place finish, and after going top of the Premier League by winning their first three games of the 1993–94 season, their form slumped dramatically (failing to improve after Mike Walker succeeded Howard Kendall as manager in mid season) and they only narrowly avoided relegation.
The 1994–95 season was arguably the finest of Rideout's career. He scored 14 goals from 29 Premier League games as Everton overcame a 12-match winless league start to finish in a secure 15th place following Walker's dismissal in favour of Joe Royle, and scored the only goal of the FA Cup final as Everton won their first major trophy since 1987 and condemned Manchester United to their first trophyless season since 1989.[4][5] With Beardsley, Cottee and Johnston now gone, Rideout now had an effective strike partner in the shape of Duncan Ferguson and a capable deputy in Daniel Amokachi.[6]
The 1994–95 campaign was as good as it got for Rideout in his time at Everton, though he did score six goals in 25 league games to help them finish sixth in 1995–96. The following season saw him restricted to a mere 10 league appearances, during which he failed to score, and at the end of the campaign he left the club.
Later career
He transferred to
Rideout returned to England – and to Merseyside – in 2000 to sign for Tranmere Rovers, where he played until May 2002, before being appointed to the club's coaching staff as an assistant with Tranmere Rovers Youth Academy. His time at Tranmere Rovers is most memorable for the FA Cup match against former club Southampton, in which he scored three of four second half goals to win the game after his team had been 3–0 down at half-time, Stuart Barlow scoring the other.[7] However, on the league scene it was not a successful time for player and club. They were relegated in bottom place at the end of his first season after a decade of second-tier football, which had seen manager John Aldridge forced out of his job after five years at the helm. His successor was Rideout's former Everton captain Dave Watson, who was unable to guide Tranmere to promotion from Division Two in the 2001–02 season. Rideout then retired from playing and Watson resigned as Tranmere manager.
International career
Although he did not represent the England national football team at full-level, he played several times for England at schoolboy, under-18 and under-21 level. At international level he scored over thirty goals, including a hat-trick for England schoolboys in a match lost 5–4 to Scotland at Wembley Stadium.
Coaching career
Following his spell coaching at the club's academy, Rideout then returned to the United States and began coaching with the
Career statistics
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Swindon Town | ||||||||||||
1980–81 | Third Division | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 16 | 4 | ||
1981–82 | Third Division | 35 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 38 | 14 | ||
1982–83 | Fourth Division | 44 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | 51 | 23 | ||
Total | 95 | 38 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 41 | ||
Aston Villa | ||||||||||||
1983–84 | First Division | 25 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1[a] | 0 | 31 | 7 | |
1984–85 | First Division | 29 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 32 | 15 | ||
Total | 54 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 63 | 22 | ||
Bari
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1985–86 | Serie A | 28 | 6 | 5[b] | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 33 | 7 | ||
1986–87 | Serie B | 34 | 10 | 5[b] | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 39 | 10 | ||
1987–88 | Serie B | 37 | 7 | 5[b] | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 42 | 7 | ||
Total | 99 | 23 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 114 | 24 | ||
Southampton | ||||||||||||
1988–89 | First Division | 24 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | — | 30 | 7 | ||
1989–90 | First Division | 31 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | — | 41 | 8 | ||
1990–91 | First Division | 16 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1[c] | 0 | 21 | 6 | |
1991–92 | First Division | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | ||
Total | 75 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 96 | 21 | ||
Swindon Town (loan) | 1990–91 | Second Division | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 9 | 1 | |
Notts County | 1991–92 | First Division | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2[c] | 0 | 16 | 3 |
Rangers | ||||||||||||
1991–92 | Scottish Premier League | 11 | 1 | 2[d] | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 13 | 1 | ||
1992–93 | Scottish Premier League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[e] | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | ||
Total | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | ||
Everton | ||||||||||||
1992–93 | Premier League | 24 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | — | 29 | 5 | ||
1993–94 | Premier League | 24 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | — | 28 | 11 | ||
1994–95 | Premier League | 29 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 36 | 16 | ||
1995–96 | Premier League | 25 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5[f] | 1 | 34 | 7 | |
1996–97 | Premier League | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 13 | 1 | ||
Total | 112 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 140 | 40 | ||
Qianwei Huandao | 1997 | Chinese Jia-A League | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 18 | 2 | |
Sporting Kansas Wizards | 1998 | Major League Soccer | 27 | 4 | 1[g] | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 28 | 5 | |
Chongqing Longxin | 1999 | Chinese Jia-A League | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 26 | 2 | |
Shenzhen Pingan | 2000 | Chinese Jia-A League | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 10 | 0 | |
Tranmere Rovers | ||||||||||||
2000–01 | First Division | 31 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | — | 41 | 7 | ||
2001–02 | Second Division | 15 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 18 | 5 | ||
Total | 46 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 12 | ||
Career total | 594 | 147 | 53 | 10 | 43 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 699 | 174 |
- ^ Appearances in Europa League
- ^ a b c Appearances in Coppa Italia
- ^ a b Appearances in Full Members' Cup
- ^ Appearances in Scottish FA Cup
- ^ Appearances in Scottish League Cup
- ^ Appearances in Community Shield (1 appearance) and Cup Winners' Cup (4 appearances, 1 goal)
- ^ Appearances in U.S. Open Cup
Honours
Rangers
Everton
Individual
- PFA Team of the Year: 1982–83 Fourth Division[15]
- Swindon Town Player of the Season: 1982–83
References
- ^ a b Kathleen Gier (7 August 2014). "Johnson County area youth soccer teams reach elite heights". kansascity.com. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- ^ "Football photographic encyclopedia, footballer, world cup, champions league, football championship, olympic games & hero images by sporting-heroes.net".
- ^ "Football photographic encyclopedia, footballer, world cup, champions league, football championship, olympic games & hero images by sporting-heroes.net".
- ^ "FA Cup Final 1995". Everton Football Club. Archived from the original on 8 September 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
- ^ "1995 FA Cup Final Report (Archived)". FA Cup Final. Archived from the original on 23 October 2007. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ "Football photographic encyclopedia, footballer, world cup, champions league, football championship, olympic games & hero images by sporting-heroes.net".
- ^ "Tranmere comeback stuns Saints". BBC. 20 February 2001. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
- ^ "Paul Rideout career appearances". soccerbase.com. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ^ "Paul Rideout career appearances". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ^ "Paul Rideout career appearances". 11v11.com. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ^ "Paul Rideout career appearances". sporting-heroes.net. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ^ Paul Rideout at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
- ^ "Limpar's three steps to heaven". The Independent. 21 May 1995. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ "Samways chips Everton to victory". Toffee Web. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ Lynch. The Official P.F.A. Footballers Heroes. p. 144.
External links
- Paul Rideout at Soccerbase
- Biography at Kansas City Wizards