Neville Southall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Neville Southall

British footballer

Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1958

Place of Birth: Llandudno, Wales, United Kingdom

Profession: association football manager, association football player, autobiographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Neville Southall

  • Neville Southall (born 16 September 1958) is a Welsh former international footballer.
  • He has been described as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation and won the FWA Footballer of the Year award in 1985.He joined Bury from Winsford United for a £6,000 fee in 1980, and turned professional in his early 20s after a number of years as a semi-professional and amateur player.
  • During his teenage years he worked as a binman, waiter and hod carrier.
  • He moved on to Everton for £150,000 in 1981 and established himself as the club's first-choice goalkeeper by the 1983–84 season.
  • He went on to make a club record 578 appearances in the English Football League and Premier League (750 in all competitions); his honours with the club consist of a European Cup Winners' Cup medal in 1985, a First Division championship medal in 1984–85 and 1986–87, an FA Cup winners medal in 1984 and 1995, and an FA Charity Shield winners medal in 1984, 1985, and 1995.
  • He also played in the 1985 and 1989 FA Cup finals, the League Cup final in 1984, and helped Everton to a second place in the league in 1985–86.
  • After leaving Everton in 1998, he became Torquay United's regular goalkeeper for two years.
  • He also made a handful of appearances for numerous other clubs. He played internationally for Wales, winning 92 caps between 1982 and 1998, though he did not feature in any major international competitions.
  • As an individual, he was named on the PFA Team of the Year four consecutive times, and was listed as one of the world's top ten goalkeepers by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics on four occasions.
  • He is a member of the Gwladys Street's Hall of Fame.
  • He has been named as one of the 100 'Greatest Players of the 20th Century' by World Soccer magazine.
  • In the 1996 Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his services to football.Since his retirement as a player, Southall has briefly managed Dover Athletic, Hastings United and Margate, and has coached at numerous clubs as well as the Welsh national youth teams.
  • He has also worked extensively with disadvantaged children, and set up his own educational consultancy.

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