Jonathan Alan Gould (born 18 July 1968) is a

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coach and former professional player. As a player, he was a

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from 1989 until 2009 playing for numerous clubs, notably in the

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for

Coventry City Coventry City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Coventry, West Midlands. The club plays in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. The club is nicknamed The Sky Blues after the sky blue colou ...

and in the

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for

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. He also played in the

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for Halifax Town,

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Bradford City Bradford City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The club competes in , the third tier of English football, and is managed by Graham Alexander. The club was founded in 1903 and ...

, Gillingham,

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and

Bristol City Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England. The team compete in the , the second level of the English football league system. Founded in 1894, the club competed in the Southern League and Western L ...

. Born in England, he was capped twice by

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and was part of their squad for the

1998 FIFA World Cup The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the Association football, football world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams. The finals tournament was held in France from 10 June to 1 ...

. Upon retiring from playing he joined

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side

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as player/manager in 2006, before moving to

Wellington Phoenix Wellington Phoenix Football Club is a professional football club based in Wellington, New Zealand. It competes in the Australian A-League Men, under licence from Football Federation Australia. Phoenix entered the competition in the 2007–08 ...

as player/assistant coach in 2009. He has also worked on the coaching staff at West Bromwich Albion,

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and

Personal life

Gould was born in England and is the elder son of former

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and

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manager

Bobby Gould Robert Alfred Gould (born 12 June 1946) is an English former footballer and manager. Early life Robert Alfred Gould was born in Wyken, Coventry, Warwickshire on Wednesday, 12 June 1946. He is the son of Henry Gould and Helen McKellar Gould ...

. He attended

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and later worked in banks for a few years, in Bristol and London.

Club career

Gould had a spell in New Zealand in 1989 playing for

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, where he won the

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. Of note, Gould could not get a game in goal for Napier City Rovers and instead played for them as a defender. He returned to Britain and played for Clevedon Town, Halifax Town and

before making his name at

for whom he played 27 games between 1992 and 1996; first under his father Bobby and later under

Phil Neal Philip George Neal (born 20 February 1951) is an English retired footballer who played for Northampton Town, Liverpool and Bolton Wanderers as a full-back. He is regarded as one of the most successful English players of all time, having won ei ...

. He was given a free transfer by the Sky Blues in 1996 and joined 2nd Division

on deadline day. In May 1996 he played in Bradford City's 2-0 play off final victory against Notts County at Wembley, earning the club promotion to Division One (now known as The Championship). The following season, he was replaced at Bradford by

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plucked Gould from

's reserves in August 1997 and he made his debut on 9 August 1997 in a 7–0 away win over Berwick Rangers in the Scottish League Cup. He quickly became one of the mainstays of the great championship winning side that prevented Rangers completing 10 in a row. Gould kept 24 clean sheets in 48 appearances that season and his performance in a gruelling 1–0 win over

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in March 1998 was particularly outstanding. In addition to his league championship winner's medal, Gould also picked a Scottish League Cup winner's medal that season in Celtic's 3–0 win over Dundee United in November 1997. He also placed third for the

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award in 1998. He continued as the No 1 under the stewardship of Josef Venglos and John Barnes. During 1999–2000 Gould generally remained the first-choice goalkeeper at

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despite the arrival of Dmitri Kharine, and picked up another Scottish League Cup winner's medal when Celtic defeated Aberdeen 2–0 in the final on 19 March 2000. Another highlight that season was saving a penalty from

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in a

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tie against

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to help his side progress. However, despite opening the 2000-01 Treble winning season as first choice and playing in the opening 13 league fixtures, Martin O'Neill signed

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as a replacement. Douglas soon became first choice at Celtic, although Gould completed his hat-trick of Scottish League Cup winner's medals that season with Celtic's 3–0 win over Kilmarnock in the final on 18 March 2001 (Douglas was cup-tied having played for Dundee in an earlier round of the tournament). He also collected his second league championship winner's medal courtesy of his appearances earlier that season. Despite his lack of first-team football at Celtic thereafter, Gould remained at the club for a further 3 years having been offered an extended contract by the manager, before eventually joining

on a free transfer in January 2003. It was during this time at Preston that Gould enjoyed a renaissance in his form which resulted in a call-up into the Scotland Squad for the European Championship play-off games against Holland. At the start of the 2004–05 season Gould went on loan to

where he made 15 appearances. He then signed for

on a free transfer in 2005 but after three months was released and it was then that he decided to retire from European football. After becoming a member of staff at

, Gould played occasionally for the team in the NZFC. As recently as 30 August 2009, Gould donned the gloves again, this time for the

in their 2–0 loss away to

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. Gould was on the bench as the reserve keeper due to the club's number one,

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being unavailable due to the birth of his first child. Had he come on, he would have been the oldest player to make an

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appearance.

International career

Gould qualified to play for

on the basis that his grandparents came from

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. After an outstanding season at Celtic, he was called up to the international side for the 1998 World Cup but was third choice behind

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and

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. After the competition he remained in the squad deputising for Sullivan and won his first cap on 9 October 1999 in a 3–0 win over Lithuania at Hampden in a qualifier tie for

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. Gould won his second and last cap a year later on 15 November 2000 in a 0–2 defeat in a friendly at Hampden against Australia. Upon losing his first team place at Celtic to

, Gould drifted out of the international scene. His form at Preston North End a couple of years later won him a recall to the squad in November 2003 for the two-legged Euro 2004 qualifier against the

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, albeit he did not play in either game.

Coaching and managerial career

In 2006, he became manager of

club

, assisted by his father

. In 2009, he left this role to take up an assistant coaching position with

Wellington Phoenix FC Wellington Phoenix Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in Wellington, New Zealand. It competes in the Australian A-League Men, under Professional sports league organization#Systems around the world, licenc ...

. After two seasons with the Phoenix both of which resulted in the club reaching the finals series, Gould left to join Perth Glory and work alongside his former

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adversary Ian Ferguson. It was announced on 26 April 2012 Gould was returning to

on a two-year deal to continue his previous role as goalkeeping coach with the

. On 16 February 2015 Jonathan Gould joined

as their first-team goalkeeping coach, working for manager

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. After Pulis moved to

, Gould was appointed to the goalkeeping coach position there in January 2018. Gould was released from his position at Middlesbrough in May 2019. He was named

goalkeeping coach as of 12 August 2019, but returned to Napier City Rovers as a Goalkeeping coach for the Rovers Talent Pathway Programme. In March 2022 Gould was appointed the goalkeeping coach for

. Gould returned to England in December 2022 joining

Stoke City Stoke City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. The team competes in the , the second level of the English football league system. Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, the cl ...

. He left his role with Stoke in December 2023. In July 2024 Gould was recruited by new A-League club

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as a goalkeeping coach.

Honours

Napier City Rovers * NZ National Football League:

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Bradford City *

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play-offs:

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Celtic *

: 1997–98, 2000–01 *

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

References

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