Jonathan Woodgate

Jonathan Woodgate's career is a study in resilience that I find quietly admirable. A gifted Middlesbrough-born center-back, he rose fast at Leeds and commanded a nine-million-pound move to Newcastle, only to be hounded by injuries that kept his ceiling forever out of reach. Plenty of players would have grown bitter. Instead he reinvented himself, moving into coaching and now working at Manchester United's first team. There is something fitting about a player who knew frustration intimately passing his hard-won lessons to the next generation. To me, Woodgate embodies the northern English grit of refusing to be defined by bad luck.

Name (English)

Jonathan Woodgate

Name (Japanese)

ジョナサン・ウッドゲート

Reading

じょなさん・うっどげーと

Born

January 22, 1980 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Monkey

Origin

Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Height

188 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Woodgate
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296635

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-17

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