Vic Rouse (footballer, born 1936)
Welsh footballer and manager
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Raymond Victor Rouse[1] (born 16 March 1936) is a Welsh former footballer and coach who played at both professional and international levels as a goalkeeper, before becoming a football manager.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Raymond Victor Rouse | ||
| Date of birth | 16 March 1936 | ||
| Place of birth | Swansea, Wales | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Millwall | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1954–1956 | Millwall | 0 | (0) |
| 1956–1963 | Crystal Palace | 238 | (0) |
| 1963 | Northampton Town | 0 | (0) |
| 1963–1965 | Oxford United | 22 | (0) |
| 1965–1967 | Leyton Orient | 40 | (0) |
| 1967–1972 | Atlanta Chiefs | 61 | (0) |
| Total | 361 | (0) | |
| International career | |||
| 1959 | Wales | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1969–1972 | Atlanta Chiefs | ||
| 1972–xxxx | Metropolitan Police | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Playing career
Born in Swansea, Rouse played in the English Football League for Crystal Palace, Oxford United and Leyton Orient.[2] He was also a player with Millwall (as an amateur)[3] and Northampton Town without making a League appearance for either club. Rouse later played in the North American Soccer League for the Atlanta Chiefs.[4]
Rouse earned one cap at full international level for Wales.[2] Rouse became the first ever international player from the old Fourth Division when he appeared in 1959.[3][5]
Coaching career
Rouse had been attracted to the Chiefs as part of Phil Woosnam's team when his Welsh comnpatriot was appointed the club's first head coach in 1967. Woosnam left the Chiefs at the end of the 1968 NASL to become Commissioner of the NASL and ahead of the 1969 season, Rouse was appointed player-manager of the Chiefs. After retiring as a player in 1972, he returned to England to become manager of Metropolitan Police.[2] He was still managing Metropolitan Police as of 1982.[6]
Personal life
Rouse's parents were English. His father, also called Vic, was a professional footballer who had played in Wales and had returned to Wales by the time Rouse was born in 1936.[7]
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