Shaun Goater

Shaun Goater
Personnel
Surname	Leonardo Shaun Goater
birthday	February 25, 1970
place of birth	Hamilton ,  Bermuda
size	182 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1978-1985	North Village
1985-1986	boulevard
1986-1987	North Village
1988-1989	Manchester United
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1989	Manchester United	0 0(0)
1989-1996	Rotherham United	209 (70)
1993	→  Notts County  (loan)	1 0(0)
1996-1998	Bristol City	75 (40)
1998-2003	Manchester City	184 (84)
2003-2005	Reading FC	43 (12)
2005	→  Coventry City  (loan)	6 0(0)
2005-2006	Southend United	34 (11)
2007-2008	Bermuda Hogges	9 0(3)
2008-2010	North Village Rams	7 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1987-2003	Bermuda	36 (32)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2008-2013	North Village Rams
1 Only league games are given.

Leonardo Shaun Goater , MBE (born February 25, 1970 in Hamilton , Bermuda ) is a former soccer player and current soccer coach. He played for various English clubs from 1989 to 2006 .

Life

Shaun Goater grew up in Hamilton, the capital of the Bermuda Islands. In 1987 he was invited to the Saltus Grammar School football and basketball tour. During these two weeks he played against several high school teams from England. In the same year he went to the United States to study, where he got an athletic scholarship at Columbia High School in New Jersey . He was spotted by a Manchester United scout and moved to the club's youth team.

Player career

society

In 1989 he got his first professional contract with Manchester United, but did not make it into the first team, so he moved to Rotherham United in the same year . By 1996 he played 209 times for Rotherham and scored 70 goals. In 1996 he turned down offers from the Spanish club CA Osasuna and the South Korean first division club Suwon Samsung Bluewings , as he had just married in England. Instead, he moved to Bristol City , where he met 43 times in 79 games.

Manchester City became aware of the then 28-year-old. In the following five years he played 197 games and scored 105 goals. In 2001 Kevin Keegan took over as coach at City. Goater benefited greatly from Keegan's coaching work. In the 2001/02 season he scored more than 30 goals, becoming the first Manchester City player since 1972 (then Francis Lee ) to succeed. A season later he announced that he was leaving the club. In his last game on Maine Road , he ran on as team captain.

From August 1, 2003 Goater played at Reading FC . The club's president, John Madejski , called this the biggest transfer in Reading's history. But shortly after the start of the season, the then coach, Alan Pardew , moved to West Ham United and the new coach, Steve Coppell , did not plan with him as a regular. In his second and final season with Reading he came on only four appearances and was loaned out to Coventry City , where he only made six games.

In 2005 he canceled his contract with Reading and moved to League One , the third English division, and played for Southend United for a year . In 34 games, he scored eleven goals. In his last game, Southend United played against his former club Bristol City. Over 100 Manchester City fans traveled to Southend to see his final game. On May 6, 2006, he announced his retirement as a football player. Southend United rose and his protégé Freddy Eastwood became the top scorer.

After Goater stopped playing soccer, he traveled back to Bermuda and was officially received by his country's Prime Minister. A week later he played a farewell game with the Bermuda national team. In 2005 he acquired his UEFA B coach license and on September 4, 2006, he founded the Bermuda Hogges football club, which takes part in the US league, with two other former Bermuda players. Goater is a co-owner and also a player of the club. After two seasons he left the Hogges and moved to the Bermudian Premier Division at the North Village Rams . There he played as a player-coach for two years before ending his playing career in winter 2010.

National team

He played a total of 36 times for the Bermuda national team . His first game was against Canada in 1987 and his last official game was against El Salvador in 2003. In these 36 games he scored 32 goals.

Coaching career

On December 20, 2008, he became playing coach for the North Village Rams and was named Coach of the Year in 2011. Goater coached the North Village club until January 2013 and then returned to England where he will work as a youth coach in Devon .

Private

Goater is married to his childhood sweetheart and has two daughters. In 2003 he was made a Member of the British Empire. The reason for this was his efforts to bring sport closer to young people in Bermuda and to promote it. His autobiography, Feed the Goat: The Shaun Goater Story , was published in September 2006.

Web links

Commons : Shaun Goater  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stephen Wright: North Village Community Club Rams . February 8, 2008. Archived from the original on December 8, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 6, 2011. 
2. ↑ Premier Welcomes Back Goater . In: Island Stats . Retrieved August 2, 2006.
3. ^ Dan Rutstein: Goater's former club confirm Iceland tour . In: Royal Gazette . June 10, 2006. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
4. ↑ Stephen Wright: Goater, Lightbourne retire as Hogges players . In: Royal Gazette . February 8, 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
5. ^ North Village Community Club Rams . February 8, 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
6. ↑ Simon Hattenstone: Goodbye to the Goat who was worth a flock of sheep . In: The Guardian , May 10, 2006. Retrieved August 2, 2006. 
7. ↑ Feed the Goat, pp. 3, 193, 198
8. ^ The Royal Gazette, Bermuda: Goater appointed new Village coach . In: Royal Gazette . January 3, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
9. ^ Goater, Steede & Bean Win BFA Awards . In: Royal Gazette . January 3, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
10. ↑ Stephen Wright: Goater waves goodbye as Village coach . In: Royal Gazette . January 3, 2013. Retrieved January 3, 2013.