Don Goodman

Don Goodman is exactly the type of footballer whose numbers I respect more the longer I look at them. Nearly 600 Football League appearances and 162 goals across roughly 20 years isn't the stuff of headlines, but it's the backbone of English football, the durable striker who keeps turning up and finding the net. Leeds-born and playing through to the modern era, he then moved into commentary, which tells me he understood the game well enough to explain it. I find that second act fitting. There's something admirable about a long, steady career that ends with you talking knowledgeably about the sport you gave two decades to.

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Name (English)

Don Goodman

Name (Japanese)

ドナルド・グッドマン

Reading

どなるど・ぐっどまん

Born

May 9, 1966 (age 60)

Origin

Leeds, United Kingdom

Height

178 cm

Occupation

association football player / sports commentator

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Goodman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2256179

Tags

• association football player
• sports commentator

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.