Winston DuBose

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Winston DuBose
fullname = Winston DuBose
Date of birth
Place of birth	,
Position	Goalkeeper
Youth clubs
	Florida Technical University
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1977-1982 1982-1984 1985-1988 1988-1989 1990-1992	Tampa Bay Rowdies Tulsa Roughnecks Tampa Bay Rowdies Oldham Athletic Tampa Bay Rowdies	? (0) ? (0) ? (0) ? (0) ? (0)
National team**
1979- 1985	United States	14 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 November 2006. ** National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2006.

Winston DuBose is a former American soccer goalkeeper who played in the NASL, the ASL III, and also became one of the first American players to gain a work permit to play in England, playing a season for Oldham Athletic in the old English second division from 1988 to 1989. During his years in the ASL, he was he was an All-Star of that low-key league in both 1988 and 1989.^[1]^[2]

Sporadically throughout his professional career, DuBose also manned the nets for the U.S. national team, achieving his first start for his country against Ireland in 1979 and recording his first shutout, against Luxembourg, in 1980. He cites playing against national arch-rivals Mexico in front of over 100,000 people at the Azteca as his greatest footballing memory, though the USA lost the match, 5-1.^[3]

When DuBose was trying his hand at European soccer in 1989, he was one of only a handful of American pioneers then playing professionally on the continent: only Chris Sullivan (Le Touquet AC), Frank Klopas (AEK Athens), Paul Caligiuri (Meppen), Bruce Murray (FC Lucerne), and Peter Vermes (Raba Eto) were also eking out a living there at the time.

DuBose now runs a computer business in Florida with his former Rowdies teammate Mark Lindsay, and also worked part-time as a commentator for home games of the Tampa Bay Mutiny of Major League Soccer until the team's closure after the 2001 season.^[4]