Colin Dobson
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| Colin Dobson | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Colin Dobson | |
| Date of birth | 9 May 1940 | |
| Place of birth | Eston, England | |
| Playing position | Inside-forward | |
| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1961–1966 1966–1972 1971 1972–1976 |
Sheffield Wednesday Huddersfield Town → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) Bristol Rovers |
177 (49) 155 (50) 4 (0) 62 (4) |
| National team | ||
| 1961 | England under-23s | 2 (0) |
| Teams managed | ||
1994-1995 |
Bahrain Al Rayyan Al Arabi |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Colin Dobson (born 9 May 1940 in Eston, Yorkshire) is an English former footballer, who played as an inside-forward. He has also had a long carer in coaching and coached domestic and national teams in Arabia.
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[edit] Club career
Dobson played for Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield Town, Brighton & Hove Albion (on loan) and Bristol Rovers before becoming Bristol's player-coach.
[edit] International career
Dobson won two England under-23 caps in 1961.
[edit] Coaching career
Dobson left Rovers to become the youth coach at Coventry City. He acted as Port Vale's coach on a voluntary basis from December 1983 to March 1984. Later he became the coach of Bahrain and then Qatar side Al Rayyan before returning to England to take up the youth coach position at Aston Villa. He also was the youth coach at Portuguese Sporting Lisbon, the youth coach and chief scout at Gillingham, a coach back at the Coventry City youth set-up before taking up the position as first team coach of Kuwaitee Al Arabi. In September 1995 he returned to Port Vale as a temporary coach, but departed in May 1996.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 85. ISBN 0952915200. http://www.amazon.ca/Port-Vale-Personalities-Jeff-Kent/dp/0952915200.
