John Stewart Porter is a Scottish former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

Playing career

Youth football

Porter played youth football for Hutchinson Vale and Salvesen Boys Club.

Scotland

After spending two years on the books at Hearts he moved to

Forfar Athletic Forfar Athletic Football Club are a Scottish semi-professional football club from the town of Forfar, Angus. They are members of the Scottish Professional Football League and currently play in Scottish League Two. They play their home games a ...

. While at Forfar Porter played 27 times scoring six goals. He then transferred to

Berwick Rangers Berwick Rangers Football Club is a football team based in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, just south of the border with Scotland. Founded in 1881, they currently play in the , the fifth tier of Scottish football, despite hailing fr ...

where he played 21 games. In 1984, he moved to East Fife where he spent two years.

Australia

In 1986 Porter emigrated to Australia where he played two seasons with

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team

St. George Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldier ...

. After leaving St. George Porter played for a number of

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clubs.

Coaching career

Porter began coaching with

Sutherland Sutherland ( gd, Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire (later ...

in the

in 1998 while still playing. In 2000, he moved on to Sydney University where he coached until 2004. In 2005, he again took the helm at Sutherland until moving to Sydney Wanderers in 2007.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Porter, John 1961 births Living people Footballers from Edinburgh Men's association football forwards Scottish men's footballers Heart of Midlothian F.C. players Forfar Athletic F.C. players East Fife F.C. players Berwick Rangers F.C. players Bonnyrigg Rose F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scottish Junior Football Association players National Soccer League (Australia) players Scottish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia