Paul Evans (footballer born 1973)

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Paul Evans

Full name	Paul Evans
Date of birth	December 28, 1973 (1973-12-28) (age 34)
Place of birth	Newcastle, South Africa
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Bath City
Number	1
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992–1995 1995–1997 1996 1997 2001–2002 2002 2002–2003 2003 2004–	Witts University Leeds United → Crystal Palace (loan) → Bradford City (loan) → Jomo Cosmos (loan) Huddersfield Town Sheffield Wednesday Rushden & Diamonds Bath City	140 (0) 000 (0) 000 (0) 000 (0) 030 (0) 000 (0) 007 (0) 002 (0) 144 (0)
National team
1998–2002	South Africa	2 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Paul Evans (born 28 December 1973 in Newcastle, South Africa), is a South African professional footballer, playing for Bath City.

[edit] Career

Sheffield Wednesday signed Evans from Huddersfield Town on a free transfer on 12 July 2002 as backup to Kevin Pressman. He made his debut for Wednesday against Derby on 15 February 2003. Despite conceding two goals in his debut game, Evans had a decent spell at Hillsborough and went on to keep three clean sheets and concede just three goals in his next six games. At the end of the 2002–03 season, however, he was deemed surplus to requirements and was released. Several months later he joined Division Two side Rushden & Diamonds where he made five appearances in all competitions before leaving the club on 1 December 2003. Evans then joined Southern League side Bath City in 2004.

Evans had previously had problems with injures having had to withdraw from South Africa's squad for France 98 with a foot injury having replaced the injured Andre Arendse and was himself replaced by Simon Gopane