| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rodney Seymour Wallace | ||
| Date of birth | (1969-10-02)2 October 1969 (age 56) | ||
| Place of birth | Lewisham, London, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[1] | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Epsom & Ewell (Reserve team coach) | ||
| 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 | 77 | (40) |
| 2001–2002 | Bolton Wanderers | 19 | (3) |
| 2002–2004 | Gillingham | 37 | (12) |
| Total | 473 | (153) | |
| International career | |||
| 1989–1991 | England U21 | 11 | (2) |
| 1990 | England B | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Rodney Seymour Wallace (born 2 October 1969)[1] is an English former professionalfootballer.
Astriker, Wallace started his football career atSouthampton in 1987, playing 128 league games and scoring 45 goals. This form earned him a transfer toLeeds United where he won the First Division championship.
After spending seven years at Leeds,Rangers signed him on aBosman transfer in 1998. At Rangers, he scored 41 league goals and was part of a squad that won five domestic trophies in his first two seasons. In 2001, he signed forBolton Wanderers on a free transfer, staying for one season, and then spent two seasons withGillingham, before retiring from professional football.
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Wallace was born inLewisham and signed forSouthampton as an apprentice in 1986 along with his twin brotherRay. Their older brother,Danny 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 atThe Dell againstSheffield 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 reach double figures, as did the season after, as he formed an exciting young strikeforce withAlan Shearer andMatthew Le Tissier, which soon attracted interest from a number of bigger clubs.
The following year he played againstBulgaria,Republic of Ireland andUnited States for theEngland under-21 team.
Fellow top-flight team Leeds United signed him for£1.6 million in the summer of 1991, and he helped them win the First Division championship andCharity Shield competition a year later.[citation needed]
He became an integral part of the Leeds squad for the next seven years and was found often playing as an out-and-out striker or in a more wide position. In September 1992, Wallace was called up to the seniorEngland squad for a friendly againstSpain, but had to pull out because of injury.[2][3] He was never called up for international duty again.
He scored a hat-trick for Leeds on the last day of the1992–93 season in a 3–3 draw atCoventry City.[4]
Wallace won the 1993–94Goal of the Season competition with a mazy dribble againstTottenham Hotspur in aPremier League game on 17 April 1994. His brother, Danny, had won the same award ten seasons earlier, making them the first and, to date, only brothers to win the award. Leeds finished fifth at the end of that season, repeating this finish in 1995 and 1998.[5] Wallace's contract with theElland Road club was due to expire in the summer of 1998 and this resulted in aBosman transfer to Scottish clubRangers.[citation needed]
In Scotland he won five medals to add to the silverware won during his time in England. In his first season, he won the domestic treble, finishing as top scorer with 27 goals and scoring the winning goal in the1999 Scottish cup final win overCeltic, the first cup final to be played at the fully renovatedHampden Park. He was also shortlisted for theSPFA Player of the Year in 1999.[6] The following season he was part of the squad that won the league andcup double. In total he made 122 appearances and scored 56 goals.[7]
In 2001, he returned to English football on a free transfer to link up with newly promotedBolton Wanderers of thePremier League. He scored on his début away toBlackburn Rovers atEwood Park[8] and managed to net further goals againstTottenham Hotspur[9] and Blackburn again.[10] He also scored once in the League Cup against Nottingham Forest.[11] Wallace successfully helped Bolton avoid relegation, but moved on after rejecting a new one-year contract.[12]
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In June 2002 he joinedGillingham on a two-year contract and managed to score 12 goals in his first full season at thePriestfield Stadium. His time with the Gills was blighted by a succession of injuries and at the end of the 2003–04 season he announced his retirement from professional football. The summer of 2004 saw him return to Southampton in a one-off benefit game organised for elder brotherDanny who has been diagnosed with the conditionmultiple sclerosis.
In January 2008, he was appointed as assistant manager ofKingstonian's under 18 side, before joiningMolesey for season 2010–11. Wallace joinedEpsom & Ewell as a reserve team coach in October 2011.[13]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Southampton | 1987–88 | First Division | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | 16 | 1 |
| 1988–89 | First Division | 38 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2[a] | 1 | 49 | 15 | |
| 1989–90 | First Division | 38 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | — | 48 | 21 | ||
| 1990–91 | First Division | 37 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1[a] | 1 | 48 | 19 | |
| Total | 128 | 45 | 10 | 3 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 161 | 56 | ||
| Leeds United | 1991–92 | First Division | 34 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1[a] | 1 | 39 | 14 |
| 1992–93 | Premier League | 32 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4[b] | 1 | 41 | 8 | |
| 1993–94 | Premier League | 37 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 39 | 17 | ||
| 1994–95 | Premier League | 32 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 37 | 4 | ||
| 1995–96 | Premier League | 24 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | 33 | 2 | ||
| 1996–97 | Premier League | 22 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | — | 29 | 8 | ||
| 1997–98 | Premier League | 31 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | — | 39 | 13 | ||
| Total | 212 | 53 | 21 | 4 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 257 | 66 | ||
| Rangers | 1998–99 | Scottish Premier League | 34 | 19 | 5[c] | 3 | 4[d] | 2 | 8[e] | 3 | 51 | 27 |
| 1999–2000 | Scottish Premier League | 28 | 16 | 5[c] | 1 | 1[d] | 1 | 10[f] | 2 | 44 | 20 | |
| 2000–01 | Scottish Premier League | 15 | 5 | 1[c] | 0 | 1[d] | 1 | 8[g] | 2 | 25 | 8 | |
| Total | 77 | 40 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 26 | 7 | 120 | 55 | ||
| Bolton Wanderers | 2001–02 | Premier League | 19 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — | 23 | 4 | |
| Gillingham | 2002–03 | First Division | 22 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 25 | 11 | |
| 2003–04 | First Division | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 16 | 1 | ||
| Total | 37 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 12 | ||
| Career total | 473 | 153 | 45 | 11 | 49 | 18 | 35 | 11 | 602 | 193 | ||
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