Rod Wallace
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rodney Seymour Wallace | ||
| Date of birth | 2 October 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Lewisham, London, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Epsom & Ewell (Reserve Team Coach) |
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| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1987 | Southampton | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1991 | Southampton | 128 | (45) |
| 1991–1998 | Leeds United | 212 | (53) |
| 1998–2001 | Rangers | 78 | (41) |
| 2001–2002 | Bolton Wanderers | 19 | (3) |
| 2002–2004 | Gillingham | 36 | (12) |
| Total | 473 | (152) | |
| National team | |||
| 1989–1991 | England U21 | 11 | (2) |
| 1990 | England B | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Rodney Seymour Wallace (born 2 October 1969) is an English professional footballer and reserve team coach of Combined Counties Football League side Epsom & Ewell. As a player, he was a striker from 1987 to 2004.
Wallace was born in Lewisham but started his football career at Southampton in 1987 playing 128 league games scoring 45 goals. This form earned him a transfer to Leeds United where he won the First Division championship. After spending seven years at Leeds, Dick Advocaat signed him on a Bosman ruling transfer for Rangers where he scored 41 league goals and was part of the squad that won five out of six trophies in their first two seasons. After leaving Rangers in 2001 he signed for Bolton Wanderers on a free transfer for a season and then Gillingham before retiring from professional football.
He signed for the Saints as an apprentice in 1986 along with his twin brother Ray Wallace. Elder brother Danny Wallace had already become an established member of the Southampton first team.
On 22 October 1988, his two brothers Danny and Ray lined up alongside him in the Southampton team in a match at The Dell against Sheffield Wednesday; this was the first time three brothers had played in the same team in English professional top-flight football. In his best season at Southampton, 1989-90, he scored 21 goals in all competitions. The previous season also saw his goal tally go well into double figures, as did the season after, as he formed an exciting young strikeforce with Alan Shearer and Matthew Le Tissier, which soon attracted interested from a number of bigger clubs.
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