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{{short description|Welsh footballer and manager}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Roger Freestone
| image =
| fullname = Roger Freestone
| height = 6 ft 2 in<ref>{{cite book |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88 |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Dunk |publisher=Queen Anne Press |location=London |date=1987 |page=122 |isbn=978-0-356-14354-5}}</ref>
| height =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yesy|1968|8|19}}
| birth_place = [[Caerleon]], [[Wales]]
| currentclub =
| clubnumber =
| position = [[Goalkeeper (association football)|Goalkeeper]]
| youthyears1 =
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| nationalyears1 = 1990
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| managerclubs1 = [[Swansea City A.F.C.|Swansea City]]
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'''Roger Freestone''' (born 19 August 1968) is a Welsh former [[Walesinternational nationalfootballer footballwho team|Wales]]played internationalas a [[Goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]]. He has the distinction of being one of a relatively small group of [[List of footballers in England by number of league appearances|footballers to play 500]] [[English Football League]] matches for one club, the only other Welshmen being [[Ryan Giggs]], [[Neville Southall]] and [[Len Weare]].
 
==Club career==
Born in [[Caerleon]], near [[Newport, Wales|Newport]], [[Monmouthshire (historic)|Monmouthshire]], Freestone began his career at [[Newport County A.F.C.|Newport County]] as a trainee before moving to [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] in 1987 for £95,000. During his time there he was never the established first choice, being behind [[Eddie NiedzwickiNiedzwiecki]], [[Kevin Hitchcock]] and [[Dave Beasant]], and was loaned out to [[Swansea City A.F.C.|Swansea City]] and [[Hereford United F.C.|Hereford United]]. He eventually joined Swansea on a permanent deal in 1991, for a fee of £45,000, and went on to spend over a decade, the majority of his career, at the Welsh club.
 
In 2001 a rumoured move to rivals [[Cardiff City F.C.|Cardiff City]] was met with anger from Swansea fans as they did not want to lose him.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/wales/1330888.stm "Hollins hits out"] [[BBC Sport]] Retrieved on 3 November 2007</ref> He left the club after thirteen years and went on to sign for [[Newport County A.F.C.|Newport County]] in 2004, but his contract was cancelled several months later by mutual consent owing to recurring injury problems<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_of_wales/4046361.stm "Keeper Freestone leaves Newport"] [[BBC Sport]] Retrieved on 3 November 2007</ref> and he eventually retired.
 
The way in which he left Swansea City angered a lot of fans. Then-manager Kenny Jackett said he made a tough choice in releasing Roger Freestone and the supporters felt they had missed an opportunity to give a proper send-off that he deserved for his contribution.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.swansea.vitalfootball.co.uk/sitepage.asp?a=161805 |title=Swansea City - 18 - Roger Freestone |access-date=23 October 2009 |archive-date=24 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724153455/http://www.swansea.vitalfootball.co.uk/sitepage.asp?a=161805 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 
Freestone is considered a legend among Swansea fans. In 1995, he briefly became the clubs penalty taker, where he converted three out of three spot-kicks. His talent as a shot stopper lead to him keeping 22 clean sheets in a season, which was a club record,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/s/swansea_city/8321595.stm | work=BBC News | title=Centurion de Vries loving Swansea | date=23 October 2009}}</ref> until [[Dorus de Vries]] broke the record in the 2009–10 season.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_1/8595494.stm |title=Swansea 3-03–0 Scunthorpe |publisher=[[BBC Sport]] |date=5 April 2010 |accessdate=5 April 2010}}</ref> Such is his status as a Swans hero, when debutant replacement keeper [[Willy Guéret]] conceded two goals, the fans started chanting their regular [[No Limit (song)|Roger Roger]] chant towards the Frenchman. In May 2003 Freestone was granted a testimonial for the Swans, against his former club Chelsea. Despite fielding a team of mainly youngsters, Chelsea won the game 2-1. Freestone played both in goal and, for a brief time, up front, with around 4,000 fans of both sides at the [[Vetch Field]]. In 2002 Freestone had his life documented by leading Welsh author [[Keith Haynes (musician)|Keith Haynes]] in a heavily publisher edited book titled [[Another Day At The Office]]
 
==International career==
Freestone played for [[Wales]] at schoolboy, under-21 and B level before winning his first and only cap against [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] in 2000.<ref>[http://www.dragonsoccer.co.uk/matches/fr_00003.htm#match%20details "Wales vs Brazil match report"] Dragonsoccer Retrieved on 3 November 2007</ref>
 
== Management career ==
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! colspan=2 | Total
|-
|[[1986–87 in English football|1986/871986–87]]||rowspan="1"|[[Newport County A.F.C.|Newport County]]||rowspan="1"|[[Football League Division 3|Division 3]]||13||0||-||-
|
|||13||0
|-
|[[1986–87 in English football|1986/871986–87]]||rowspan="4"|[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]||rowspan="2"|[[Football League Division One|Division 1]]||6||0||-||-
|
|||6||0
|-
|[[1987–88 in English football|1987/881987–88]]||15||0||-2||-0
|
|||1517||0
|-
|[[1988–89 in English football|1988/891988–89]]||rowspan="1"|[[Football League Division Two|Division 2]]||21||0||-||-
|2
|0||2123||0
|-
|[[1989–90 in English football|1989/901989–90]]||rowspan="1"|[[Football League Division One|Division 1]]||0||0||-||-
|
|||0||0
|-
|[[1989–90 in English football|1989/901989–90]]||rowspan="1"|[[Hereford United F.C.|Hereford United (Loan)]]||rowspan="1"|[[Football League Division Four|Division 4]]||8||0||-||-
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|||8||0
|-
|[[1989–90 in English football|1989/901989–90]]||rowspan="1"|[[Swansea City A.F.C.|Swansea City (Loan)]]||rowspan="1"|[[Football League Division Three|Division 3]]||14||0||-||-
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|||14||0
|-
|[[1990–91 in English football|1990/911990–91]]||[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]||[[Football League Division One|Division 1]]||0||0||-||-
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|||0||0
|-
|[[1991–92 in English football|1991/921991–92]]||rowspan="13"|[[Swansea City A.F.C.|Swansea City]]||rowspan="1"|[[Football League Division Three|Division 3]]||42||0||-||-
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|||42||0
|-
|[[1992–93 in English football|1992/931992–93]]||rowspan="4"|[[Football League Division Two|Division 2]]||46||0||-||-
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|||46||0
|-
|[[1993–94 in English football|1993/941993–94]]||46||0||-||-
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|||46||0
|-
|[[1994–95 in English football|1994/951994–95]]||45||1||-||-
|2
|0||4547||1
|-
|[[1995–96 in English football|1995/961995–96]]||45||2||-||-
| –
|
| -||45||2
|-
|[[1996–97 in English football|1996/971996–97]]||rowspan="4"|[[Football League Division Three|Division 3]]||45||0||0||0
|2
|0||47||0
|-
|[[1997–98 in English football|1997/981997–98]]||43||0||1||0
|2
|0||46||0
|-
|[[1998–99 in English football|1998/991998–99]]||4238||0||5||0
|2
|0||4945||0
|-
|[[1999–00 in English football|1999/20001999–2000]]||46||0||2||0
|4
|0||52||0
|-
|[[2000–01 in English football|2000/012000–01]]||rowspan="1"|[[Football League Division Two|Division 2]]||43||0||1||0
|2
|0||46||0
|-
|[[2001–02 in English football|2001/022001–02]]||rowspan="3"|[[Football League Division Three|Division 3]]||43||0||2||0
|1
|0||46||0
|-
|[[2002–03 in English football|2002/032002–03]]||33||0||1||0
|1
|0||35||0
|-
|[[2003–04 in English football|2003/042003–04]]||3437||0||5||0
|0
|0||3942||0
|-
|[[2004–05 in English football|2004/052004–05]]||rowspan="1"|[[Newport County A.F.C.|Newport County]]||rowspan="1"|[[Conference South]]||14||0||-||-
|
|||14||0
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! rowspan=1 | Total
! colspan=2 | England
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! colspan=3 | Career total
!640643||3||1719||0
!1418
!0||675680||3
|}
 
==Honours==
'''Chelsea'''
*[[Football League Second Division]]: [[1988–89 Two|Football League#Second Division 2|1988–89]] - 1988/1989 (Champions)
 
'''Swansea City'''
*[[Football League Third Division]]: [[1999–2000 Three|Football League#Third Division 3|1999–2000]] - 1999/2000 (Champions)
*[[Football League Trophy|Autoglass Trophy]]: - [[1994 (Champions)Football League Trophy Final|1993–94]]
*[[FAW Premier Cup]] runner-up: 2001[[2000–01 FAW Premier Cup|2000–01]], 2002[[2001–02 (Runners-up)FAW Premier Cup|2001–02]]
*[[Football League Third Division]] play-offs runner-up: [[1997 Football League Third Division play-off Final|1997]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-swansea-run-over-by-frain-1263330.html |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027002521/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-swansea-run-over-by-frain-1263330.html |archivedate=27 October 2018 |title=Football: Swansea run over by Frain |work=The Independent |publisher=Independent Digital News & Media |first=Norman |last=Fox |date=25 May 1997 |accessdate=1 May 2020}}</ref>
 
==References==
{{Reflist|30emreflist}}
 
==External links==
*{{Soccerbase}}
*{{soccerbase|id=2670|name=Roger Freestone}}
*[http://www.11v11.com/players/roger-freestone-1275/ Wales stats] at 11v11
 
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