Jason Matthews (footballer)
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| Jason Matthews | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jason Matthews | |
| Date of birth | March 13, 1975 (age 32) | |
| Place of birth | Paulton, England | |
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Weymouth | |
| Number | 17 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| Bristol Rovers | ||
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002- |
Nuneaton Borough Exeter City Aberystwyth Town Clevedon Town Weymouth |
? (0) 12 (0) ? (0) ? (0) 175 (1) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Jason Matthews was born in Paulton on March 13, 1975. He started playing in goal at an early age, and soon won a place at Millfield's Centre of Excellence.
Bristol Rovers signed him up on schoolboy terms but he was released just before he left school.
Jason then spent six years playing for a number of clubs in the Screwfix League including Welton Rovers, Paulton and Mangotsfield, before signing for Geoff Butler's Salisbury City.
The following season he signed for Nuneaton Borough but it was only a couple of months before he was invited to join Exeter City, where he spent the 1999-2000 season.
Next it was over the border to Aberystwyth Town for a year before joining Clevedon Town.
And it was from Clevedon that Geoff Butler signed him for Weymouth in 2002, where he has stayed (and stayed almost unrivalled #1 keeper) for nearly 5 whole seasons.
On 17 March 2007, he scored his first ever career goal for Weymouth in a Conference National match against Southport; all the more remarkable as it was from his own penalty area, in the last minutes of the game, and was the winning goal. It was also the first ever goal a Weymouth goalkeeper has scored from open play in the entire history of the club.
