Mike Stowell
Stowell pictured in July 2009.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Michael Stowell | ||
| Date of birth | 19 April 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Portsmouth, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1984–1985 | Leyland Motors | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1985 | Preston North End | 0 | (0) |
| 1985–1990 | Everton | 0 | (0) |
| 1987 | → Chester City (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 1987 | → York City (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 1988 | → Manchester City (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 1988 | → Port Vale (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 1989 | → Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 1990 | → Preston North End (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 1990–2001 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 378 | (0) |
| 2001–2005 | Bristol City | 25 | (0) |
| Total | 453 | (0) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2007 | Leicester City (caretaker) | ||
| 2010 | Leicester City (caretaker) | ||
| 2011 | Leicester City (caretaker) | ||
| 2017 | Leicester City (caretaker) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Michael Stowell (born 19 April 1965) is an English former professional football goalkeeper, and now first team coach and goalkeeping coach at Leicester City. As a player, he spent twenty years as a professional, eleven of which were with Wolverhampton Wanderers. He is married to women's footballer Rachel Stowell.
Gaining his chance in the professional game at Preston North End in 1985, he impressed enough to receive a contract with top-flight Everton later in the year. In his five years at the club he was loaned out to Chester City, York City, Manchester City, Port Vale, Wolverhampton Wanderers, and Preston North End. He signed permanently with Wolves in 1990, and was their goalkeeper of choice throughout the decade, making 378 league appearances. In 2001, he signed with Bristol City, before retiring in 2005. He had spells as caretaker manager at Leicester City in 2007, 2010, 2011, and 2017.
Having played junior football for Kirkham Junior Football Club, Stowell gained his first experience of professional football with a trial for Preston North End, where he played in their reserves and was offered a one-year contract. He turned this down though as the club were then sat bottom of the Third Division and he was entering his final year's apprenticeship with BT in Preston, the town in which he was raised.
While playing for North West Counties League side Leyland Motors, he was offered a trial at top flight Everton and subsequently offered a two and a half-year contract at the club. He signed in December 1985 for what turned out to be a five-year stay at Goodison Park. However, he was unable to force his way past Neville Southall into the first team and never made a league appearance for the team, instead playing in the Central Reserve league. His sole outing for the "Toffees" was in a Full Members Cup tie against Millwall, in which he kept a clean sheet.
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