Jason Matthews (footballer)

Football player infobox
playername = Jason Matthews


fullname = Jason Matthews
height =
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1975|03|13
cityofbirth = Paulton
countryofbirth = England
currentclub = Eastleigh
clubnumber = n/a
position = Goalkeeper
youthyears =
youthclubs = Bristol Rovers
years = 1998-1999
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-2008
2008-
clubs = Nuneaton Borough
Exeter City
Aberystwyth Town
Clevedon Town
Weymouth
Eastleigh
caps(goals) = 0? (0)
12 (0)
0? (0)
0? (0)
0207 (1)
01 (0)
pcupdate = 11 January 2008

Jason Matthews was born in Paulton on March 13, 1975. He started playing in goal at an early age, and soon won a place at Millfield's Centre of Excellence.

Bristol Rovers signed him up on schoolboy terms but he was released just before he left school. Matthews then spent six years playing for a number of clubs in the Screwfix League including Welton Rovers, Paulton and Mangotsfield, before signing for Geoff Butler's Salisbury City.

The following season Matthews signed for Nuneaton Borough but it was only a couple of months before he was invited to join Exeter City, where he spent the 1999–2000 season, giving him his only taste of Football League action.

He followed this by moving over the Welsh border to Aberystwyth Town for a year before joining Clevedon Town. It was from Clevedon that Geoff Butler signed him for Weymouth in 2002, where he has stayed (and stayed almost unrivalled #1 keeper) for nearly five whole seasons.

On March 17 2007, he scored his first ever career goal for Weymouth in a Conference National match against Southport. It was all the more remarkable as it was from his own penalty area, in the last minutes of the game, and was the winning goal. It was the first ever goal a Weymouth goalkeeper has scored from open play in the entire history of the club.

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