John Aldridge

John Aldridge is exactly the kind of footballer I find most admirable: a grafter who scored his way up from the Fourth Division all the way to the top flight. His 329 Football League goals, sixth in English history, weren't built on glamour but on relentless poaching inside the box, the unfashionable craft of being in the right place again and again. There's something deeply Liverpudlian about "Aldo", a local lad who let his goals do the talking and later passed on what he knew as a manager. I'll always rate the players who carve their name into the record books the hard way over the ones gifted everything early.

Name (English)

John Aldridge

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・オルドリッジ

Reading

じょん・おるどりっじ

Born

September 18, 1958 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

Origin

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Height

181 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.