Ian Goodison
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ian De Souza Goodison[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 21 November 1972 | ||
| Place of birth | Montego Bay, Jamaica | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Tranmere Rovers | ||
| Number | 5 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1997–1999 | Olympic Gardens | ||
| 1999–2002 | Hull City | 70 | (1) |
| 2002–2004 | Seba United | ||
| 2004– | Tranmere Rovers | 316 | (11) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1996– | Jamaica | 120 | (10) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:28, 14 January 2012 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
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Ian De Souza Goodison (born 21 November 1972) is a football defender from Jamaica. He has been playing for Tranmere Rovers since 2004 and has amassed more than 300 appearances for the club.
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[edit] Club career
[edit] Hull City
Nicknamed 'Pepe', the big Jamaican made his first foray into English football via then Third Division side Hull City, when he was signed along with fellow countryman and good friend Theo Whitmore by Brian Little. The Jamaican impressed during his time at Hull, epitomised by the fact that he was their Player of the Season for the 2000–01 season (his first in English football). Despite his impressive start Little's departure as manager was followed by that of Goodison who returned to Jamaica to play for Seba United.
[edit] Tranmere Rovers
He wasn't out of English football long though, and Goodison joined Tranmere Rovers from Seba United on a short term deal midway through the 2003–04 campaign (February 2004) for his second spell in English football, again working alongside his former Hull boss Brian Little. During Little's reign he spent most his time out of position at left back, but after an injury to former Tranmere captain Michael Jackson (recently released from Blackpool), Goodison played centreback for the last few games of the 2005–06 season where he impressed with a series of man-of-the-match performances.
After Little's departure at the end of the 2005–06 season, Goodison briefly left the club when his contract was not renewed, before being re-signed by then manager Ronnie Moore. Since then he has become possibly the most important player in the team – without him Tranmere struggle to win. Under Moore he was made club captain (a role he played for Jamaica in the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, where he led them to their first ever World Cup victory over Japan), won player of the year in the 2006–07 season and 2007–08 season, been named best player in the Northwest three years running (2006–09) and earned himself a new two-and-a-half year contract in November 2006. He is regarded by many fans as one of Tranmere's greatest ever defenders. He recently signed a new 2 year contract with the club which will run out in 2012.
Goodison was to make the next season his most prolific for goalscoring yet at Tranmere, netting 3 times including one at Stockport on the final day to ensure survival in dramatic circumstances.
The following season Goodison once again impressed at the heart of the Tranmere defence and again claimed League 1 North-West League 1 player of the year. He scored a career best of 6 goals in the 2010/11 season.
[edit] International career
He made his debut for the Jamaica national football team in a March 1996 friendly match against Guatemala and immediately scored his first international goal. As of November 2008 he has collected a country all-time record of 113 caps and scored nine goals.[2] Forty-five of those games were in World Cup qualification and in the 1998 Hull City tournament.[3] Goodison was included in the 23-man squad named by "Reggae Boyz" boss Theo Whitmore for the 2011 Gold Cup in the USA. If played it would be Goodison's first international appearance since November 2008.
[edit] Personal life
His girlfriend gave birth to their first child in November 2008, a boy named Lesvaldo.
[edit] References
- ^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2009). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009–10. Mainstream Publishing. p. 166. ISBN 9781845964740.
- ^ Ian Goodison – Century of International Appearances – RSSSF
- ^ Record at FIFA Tournaments – FIFA
[edit] External links
- Player profile – Tranmere Rovers
- Player profile – ReggaeBoyz
- Player profile – ReggaeBoyz Supporters Club
- Ian Goodison & Theo Whitmore – Hull City
- Ian Goodison career stats at Soccerbase
- Career stats – National Football Teams
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by n/a |
Hull City Player of the Season 2000-2001 |
Succeeded by Gary Alexander |
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- People from Montego Bay
- Association football defenders
- Jamaican footballers
- Jamaica international footballers
- 1998 FIFA World Cup players
- 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- FIFA Century Club
- Hull City A.F.C. players
- Tranmere Rovers F.C. players
- The Football League players
- Expatriate footballers in England
