Paul Rideout

Football player infobox
playername = Paul Rideout


fullname = Paul Rideout
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1964|08|14
cityofbirth = Bournemouth
countryofbirth = England
currentclub =
clubnumber =
position = Striker
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1980–1983
1983–1985
1985–1988
1988–1991
1990–1991
1991
1992
1992–1997
1997–1998
1998–1999
1999–2000
2000–2002
clubs = Swindon Town
Aston Villa
Bari
Southampton
Swindon Town (loan)
Notts County
Rangers
Everton
Huang Doh Vanguards
Kansas City Wizards
Shenzhen Jianlibao
Tranmere Rovers
caps(goals) = 095 (38)
054 (19)
099 (23)
075 (19)
009 0(1)
011 0(3)
012 0(1)
111 (29)
22 (7)
27 (4)

046 0(6)
nationalyears = 1984–1986
nationalteam = England U21
nationalcaps(goals) = 006 0(1)
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ntupdate =

Paul Rideout (born 14 August 1964 in Bournemouth) was an English professional football player who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He is now a coach.

Rideout's career began as a 16 year old at Swindon Town as their youngest ever first team player. After scoring 23 goals in 44 games in his third season he transferred to Aston Villa and then A.S. Bari in Italy. He then returned to England, joining Southampton in July 1988, when he also returned to Swindon Town for a loan spell.

Short stays at Notts County and Rangers in Scotland followed, before he joined Everton for £500,000 in August 1992. Rideout spent 5 years with The Toffees, and is remembered for scoring the winning goal in the 1995 FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium against Manchester United.

However, towards the end of his stay at Everton, Rideout was mostly used as a substitute, and at the end of the 1996/1997 season he transferred to Huan Dao Vanguards in China, where he was voted 'Best Overseas player' in the Chinese League. He then moved to the United States of America in 1998 to play for the Kansas City Wizards from 1998-1999 before returning to the Chinese league until 2000, playing for Shenzhen Jianlibao.

Rideout's last club was Tranmere Rovers, where he played until May 2002, before being appointed to the club's coaching staff as an assistant with Tranmere Rovers Youth Academy. His time at Tranmere Rovers is most memorable for the FA Cup match against former club Southampton, in which he scored three of four second half goals after his team had been 3–0 down at half-time. Following his spell coaching at the club's academy, Rideout then returned to the United States and began coaching with the Kansas City Wizards, managing all three of the club's youth squads.

Although he did not represent the England national football team at full-level, he played several times for England at schoolboy, under-18 and under-21 level. At international level he scored over 30 goals, including 3 goals for England schoolboys in a match lost 4–5 to Scotland, at Wembley Stadium.

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