Scott Green (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Scott Paul Green | ||
| Date of birth | 15 January 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Walsall, England | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1990 | Derby County | 0 | (0) |
| 1989 | → Euran Pallo (loan) | 17 | (23) |
| 1990–1997 | Bolton Wanderers | 227 | (25) |
| 1997–2003 | Wigan Athletic | 213 | (10) |
| 2003 | Wrexham | 15 | (3) |
| 2003–2004 | Telford United | 20 | (3) |
| 2004–2005 | Wrexham | 12 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2009–2012 | Yeovil Town (Youth Coach) | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Scott Paul Green (born 15 January 1970 in Walsall) is a retired English football defender.[1]
As a schoolboy, Green spent time at Stoke, West Brom and Walsall before Derby County took him on trial as a centre-forward. He ultimately failed to play a single game for Derby but would have a successful loan spell in 1989 with Finnish side Euran Pallo,[2] scoring 23 goals in 17 matches.[3] In 1990, Green signed for Bolton Wanderers for £50,000, making his début against Shrewsbury Town. He would help Wanderers reach the play-offs that season, and made an appearance in the 1991 play-off final against Tranmere. In 1994, Green switched to full-back helping Bolton achieve promotion and played in the 1995 Football League Cup Final.
Green joined Wigan Athletic for £300,000 in June 1997, scoring on his début in a 5-2 win over Wycombe Wanderers on the opening day of the 1997/98 season. Now a regular fixture at right-back, he was part of the side that would win the Football League Trophy at Wembley in 1999. A virtual ever present in the first half of Wigan's Second Division Championship winning season, he would be allowed to leave the club for Wrexham in 2003.
Honours
- Bolton Wanderers
- Wigan Athletic
References
- ↑ Scott Green career statistics at Soccerbase
- ↑ Setänen, Eetu (27 June 2013). "Euran Wembleyltä Valioliigaan" (in Finnish). Länsi-Suomi. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ↑ Lahtinen, Esko S.; Malmberg, Kirsti; Sainio, Iris (1990). Jalkapallokirja 1990 (in Finnish). Football Association of Finland. p. 228. ISBN 951-9392-37-8.