{{short description|English footballer and manager}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use British English|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Jim Shoulder | image = | fullname = James Shoulder<ref name="hugman">{{Hugman|17942|Jimmy Shoulder|accessdate=26 November 2017}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|9|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Esh Winning, England | death_date = | height = | position = Left-back | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | years1 = 1964–1969 | clubs1 = Sunderland | caps1 = 3 | goals1 = 0 | years2 = 1967 | clubs2 = Vancouver Royals | caps2 = 5 | goals2 = 1 | years3 = 1969–1973 | clubs3 = Scarborough | caps3 = 224 | goals3 = 15 | years4 = 1973–1975 | clubs4 = Hartlepool United | caps4 = 63 | goals4 = 3 | totalcaps = 295 | totalgoals = 19 | manageryears1 = 1976–1978 | managerclubs1 = Australia | manageryears2 = 1985 | managerclubs2 = Australia national under-20 football team | manageryears3 = 1990–2001 | managerclubs3 = Wales U21 | manageryears4 = 2004 | managerclubs4 = Singapore Armed Forces FC }} '''James Shoulder''' (born 11 September 1946) is an English former football manager and player. Most notably, he was manager of the Australian national team from 1976 to 1978.
As a player, Shoulder spent time at Sunderland,<ref name="thestatcat">{{cite web|url=http://www.thestatcat.co.uk/Player.aspx?PlayerID=757|title=Sunderland AFC - Statistics, History and Records - from TheStatCat|publisher=thestatcat.co.uk|access-date=18 August 2016}}</ref> Scarborough<ref name="sundaysun.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/north-east-football/2001/08/15/shouldering-the-coach-s-burden-easy-for-jimmy-79310-11239031/|title=Sunday Sun - North East news, sport and what's on|publisher=sundaysun.co.uk|access-date=18 August 2016}}</ref> and Hartlepool United.<ref>http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/itmc_view_person.asp?oid=709{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He combined his football career with higher education and graduated with a degree in Sociology from Durham University in 1973.<ref>{{cite web |title=St Cuthbert's Society : Famous Alumni |url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/st-cuthberts.society/alumni/famous/ |website=Durham University |access-date=9 May 2019}}</ref>
Shoulder was manager of the Australian national team from 1976 to 1978, after succeeding Brian Green, who had been charged and convicted of stealing two LP records.<ref name="age1">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=2bUQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QpIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3305,2608169|title=Australia's soccer coach put on bond|date=12 February 1976|work=The Age|access-date=22 March 2010}}</ref> After failing to secure Australia's qualification to the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, Shoulder was sacked,<ref name="proclamations">{{cite web|url=http://www.proclamations.com.au/proclamations-articles/1987/3/5/soccers-pommie-mafia-does-it-exist-or-is-it-just-fiction/|title=Proclamations | Proclamations|publisher=proclamations.com.au|access-date=18 August 2016}}</ref> and replaced by Rudi Gutendorf. Later, Shoulder would head the Australian Institute of Sport Football Program,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Bookshelf/Reports/Australian_Soccer_Federation_Annual_Report_1982.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.ozfootball.net |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324214425/http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Bookshelf/Reports/Australian_Soccer_Federation_Annual_Report_1982.pdf |archive-date=24 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> as well as coach the Australia national under-20 football team.<ref name="rsssf">{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz-u20-intres.html|title=New Zealand - U-20 International Matches|website=RSSSF|access-date=18 August 2016}}</ref> Shoulder would also coach throughout Asia, and spent ten years as manager of the Welsh under-21 team.<ref name="sundaysun.co.uk"/> He was the director of football academy Shinzhon Town in China, coach of academy Sheffield Wednesday, the head coach Singapore Armed Forces FC (Singapore) and worked with the academy at FC Pakhtakor.
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==External links== *https://web.archive.org/web/20100203035336/http://www.pakhtakor.uz/en/news/article/jimmy-shoulder-best-academy-which-as-much-as-possible-uses-reserves-and-brings-up-stars-from-local/
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