Jason Dodd

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Jason Dodd
Personnel
Surname Jason Robert Dodd
birthday 2nd November 1970
place of birth Bath ,  England
position Full-back (right)
Juniors
Years station
Bath City
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988-1989 Bath City 9 (1)
1989-2005 Southampton FC 398 (9)
2004 →  Plymouth Argyle  (loan) 4 (0)
2005-2006 Brighton & Hove Albion 7 (0)
2006 Eastleigh FC 3 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990-1991 England U-21 8 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2006-2007 Eastleigh FC
2008 Southampton FC (interim)
2009 Aldershot Town (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Jason Robert Dodd (born November 2, 1970 in Bath ) is a former English football player and current coach . As a right full-back , who could also be used in the defense center, he was active between 1989 and 2005 for the first division club Southampton FC . In late 2009 he returned to head the youth academy.

Athletic career

Player career

Beginnings (1988–1995)

Dodd joined the English first division club Southampton FC in March 1989 after having previously made his first experiences in the Southern League with his home club Bath City . The transfer fee was 50,000 pounds and on October 14, 1989 he made his debut as a right-back in the First Division - at that time the top English division - in the game with the Queens Park Rangers . There he won 4-1 as well as in the following home game against last year's runner-up Liverpool FC and with a total of 21 league appearances in the starting line-up (plus a substitution) he had a good first year as a professional. His strengths lay mainly in his “all-round skills”, which, in addition to his defensive qualities and a good header game, expressed the fact that he often went on the offensive and had a good passing game. The lasting sporting breakthrough then seemed to follow in the 1991/92 season, after he had to share the place on the right back with Olexij Tscherednik in his second Southampton year . But also in the second half of the last season before the introduction of the Premier League in 1992, he then lost his regular place to Jeff Kenna .

This situation did not change for a long time for Dodd, although he still made 30 league appearances in the 1992/93 season - mostly in other positions or as Kenna's replacement. In the 1993/94 season he was only five times in the starting lineup and only the sale of the competitor to the Blackburn Rovers in March 1995 made sure that Dodd was again "first choice" as a right defender in Southampton. Before that, he had mostly played in midfield and scored two goals in two days at the end of December 1994.

Regular player, team captain and "long-running favorite" (1995-2005)

Dodd took advantage of the opportunity offered him and developed into a key player in the "Saints", who showed such good performance in the 1995/96 season not only on the right but also in central defense that voices were voiced after appearances in the English U-21 team at the beginning of the 1990s also predicted a future in the senior national team - but this should not happen. With his flexibility to interpret the full-back position as a so-called "wingback" offensively in midfield or to ensure safety in central defense, he was an important factor on the way to relegation after several injury concerns at the beginning of the decisive phase of the 1996/97 season and increasingly targeted by ambitious big clubs. As captain of the team, he only missed three games in the 1997/98 season and with the remarkable goal against West Ham United (3-0) he achieved the now almost usual "one goal per season".

Plagued by injuries, Dodd stepped through the 1998/99 season, in which he not only missed a number of games, but was also “injected fit” in many remaining matches for the relegation battle again . In the absence of Matthew Le Tissier, he moved up as the first penalty taker and now in his eleventh season for Southampton FC, he qualified for a personal benefit game in his honor ("testimonial match"). He also showed some deficits in terms of speed, which he was often able to compensate with good positional play and anticipation skills. Due to a knee operation in the summer of 2001, he came back to work in October 2001 and his return was accompanied by a sporting upward trend in the team, which ended up occupying a comfortable midfield position in the 2001/02 season. On just 15 league games Dodd came injured in the subsequent season 2002/03, when he continued to perform the captaincy, but lost the position of right-back from December 2002 to Paul Telfer . Due to his injuries, he also missed the final of the FA Cup against Arsenal (0: 1).

He conquered his regular place back in the 2003/04 season and completed 28 league games before he injured the inner ligament in his left leg against Wolverhampton Wanderers in April 2004 and played no significant role in the 2004/05 relegation year . Instead, coach Harry Redknapp allowed him to take up a loan engagement with the second division Plymouth Argyle in late March 2005 . There he showed his leadership qualities in four games before he was ordered back from Southampton in the ultimately unsuccessful relegation battle without being specifically considered for games again.

Last active stations (2005–2006)

In July 2005 Dodd moved to the second division Brighton & Hove Albion . Due to constant injury concerns, his hopes for a positive restart were not fulfilled and after just seven league games (the last at the Queens Park Rangers (1: 1) in March 2006) he said goodbye to bottom of the table as an active professional player. His last player position was then FC Eastleigh in Conference South in mid-2006 , before he announced his resignation after just a few games in November 2006 and moved up to the club's head coaching position.

Coaching activities

Dodd carried out his first engagement as chief trainer in Eastleigh until his resignation in July 2007. Shortly thereafter, he returned to Southampton to assist head coach George Burley there. After Burley's departure in January 2008, he took over his successor on an interim basis together with John Gorman for a short time . In June 2008 the club released him again and once again he appeared as the brief head coach of a professional club when he led the fortunes of Aldershot Town from October 2009 together with his former Southampton teammate Paul Williams . Only a little later I went back to the "Saints" for one more time to fill the leading position as trainer of the youth academy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bathcityfc.com: Season 1988/89 ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 23, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.bathcityfc.com
  2. ^ "England - U-21 International Results 1986–1995 - Details" (RSSSF)
  3. ^ Hugman, Barry J .: Premier League: The Players - A Complete Guide to Every Player 1992-93 . Tony Williams Publishing, 1992, ISBN 1-869833-15-5 , pp. 156 .
  4. ^ Rothman's Football Yearbook 1993-94, pp. 472f
  5. ↑ Rothman's Football Yearbook 1994-95, pp. 466f
  6. ↑ Rothman's Football Yearbook 1995-96, pp. 324f
  7. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-96 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 0-09-180854-5 , pp. 62 .
  8. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1996, ISBN 1-85291-571-4 , pp. 73 .
  9. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1997-98 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1997, ISBN 1-85291-581-1 , pp. 78 .
  10. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998, ISBN 1-85291-588-9 , pp. 83 .
  11. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1999, ISBN 1-85291-607-9 , pp. 84 .
  12. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2000, ISBN 1-85291-626-5 , pp. 91 .
  13. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2001-2002 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2001, ISBN 0-946531-34-X , pp. 83 .
  14. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2002/2003 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2002, ISBN 1-85291-648-6 , pp. 116 .
  15. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2003/2004 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2003, ISBN 1-85291-651-6 , pp. 119 .
  16. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2004/2005 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2004, ISBN 1-85291-660-5 , pp. 112 .
  17. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2005/2006 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2005, ISBN 1-85291-662-1 , pp. 115 .
  18. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2006-07 . Mainstream Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-84596-111-0 , pp. 114 .
  19. ↑ "Dodd takes the reins - Doswell moves 'upstairs'" (NonLeagueDaily)
  20. ^ "Eastleigh appoint from within" (NonLeagueDaily)
  21. ↑ "Gorman and Dodd leave Southampton" (BBC Sport)
  22. ↑ "Dodd quits Shots for Southampton" (BBC Sport)
personal data
SURNAME Dodd, Jason
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dodd, Jason Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd November 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bath