Name: Peter Joseph Rodrigues
Country:
WalesClub: Southampton F.C.
Position: *SB
Side: RF/RS
Age: 31-32 years (21/01/1944)
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 76 kg
Attack: 70
Defence: 74
Balance: 79
Stamina: 84
Top Speed: 84
Acceleration: 81
Response: 81
Agility: 74
Dribble Accuracy: 72
Dribble Speed: 72
Short Pass Accuracy: 74
Short Pass Speed: 73
Long Pass Accuracy: 74
Long Pass Speed: 74
Shot Accuracy: 63
Shot Power: 76
Shot Technique: 63
Free Kick Accuracy: 64
Curling: 72
Header: 75
Jump: 70
Technique: 73
Aggression: 79
Mentality: 82
Goalkeeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 79
Injury Tolerance: B
Condition/Fitness: 7
Weak Foot Accuracy: 5
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 7
Growth type: Late/Lasting
CARDS:
S07 - Man Marking
S08 - Slide Tackle
SPECIAL ABILITIES: Marking - Sliding
Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Balanced
INFO:
Peter Rodrigues was a fine over-lapping full-back who was renowned for his sliding tackles. His extremely pacey overlapping full-back play combined with a mastery of the sliding tackle quickly endeared him to the fans.
As a youngster, Peter joined Cardiff City as a 17 year-old in May 1961. After six first team games, Peter became a Wales Under-23s international. He made his full international debut in 1965. In December 1965, Leicester City paid Cardiff City a Club record fee of £42,500 for Wales international right full-back Peter Rodrigues. For the next five years, Rodrigues was the regular first-choice right-back. He also won 16 more full international caps (out of a total of 40), including two against Brazil, when he marked the legendary Garrincha. He was involved in every tie in the run to the 1969 FA Cup Final, when the team lost 1-0 to Manchester City. In October 1970, after making 171 appearances for the Foxes, he moved to Sheffield Wednesday, where he spent the next five years.
In July 1975, McMenemy signed Peter as a stop-gap. Peter had won his 40th, and last cap, for Wales in Poland in 1973, but he had retained some of the speed with which he had been a schoolboy sprint-champion. Yet that hardly predicted that, in 1975-76, he would miss only one League match and none of the FA Cup-run, taking over as captain in October, when the unsettled Mick Channon opted out of the job. And so it was Peter who led the triumphant underdogs up those Wembley steps ((and the last one to receive the trophy from The Queen herself). A knee-injury, incurred in training come October, effectively ended Peter’s professional career.
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