James Shoulder (born 11 September 1946) is an

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former football manager and player. Most notably, he was manager of the Australian national team from 1976 to 1978. As a player, Shoulder spent time at Sunderland,

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and

Hartlepool United Hartlepool United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Hartlepool, County Durham, England. The team competes in EFL League Two, League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. They were founded i ...

. He combined his football career with higher education and graduated with a degree in Sociology from Durham University in 1973. He was manager of the Australian national team from 1976 to 1978, after succeeding Brian Green, who had been charged and convicted of stealing two LP records. After failing to secure Australia's qualification to the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, Shoulder was sacked, and replaced by

Rudi Gutendorf Rudolf Gutendorf (30 August 1926 – 13 September 2019) was a German football manager, renowned for managing the highest number of national teams – a total of 18 teams plus Iran's Olympic team in 1988 and the China Olympic team in 1992 ...

. Later, Shoulder would head the

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, as well as coach the

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. Shoulder would also coach throughout Asia, and spent ten years as manager of the Welsh under-21 team. He was the director of football academy Shinzhon Town in China, coach of academy

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, the head coach

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(

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) and worked with the academy at

FC Pakhtakor FC Pakhtakor Tashkent ( uz, Paxtakor futbol klubi) is an Uzbek professional football club, based in the capital city Tashkent, that competes in the Uzbekistan Super League. Pakhtakor literally means "cotton-grower" in English. Pakhtakor was the ...

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