JAMES MCCABE

FOOTBALLING CV

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 29th September 1962
Religion: Glasgow Celtic
Height: 180cm
Weight: 72kg

QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Playing Position: Libero
Playing Strengths: Supportive clapping; Hand up for offside; Scoring from corners; Known to pass with left and right feet.
Playing Weaknesses: Too nice when confronted by stroppy forwards; Upper body strength; Hate playing a long ball.

EXPERIENCE

Date Joined Logica: 1st January 1992
Logica FC Debut: 10th August 1992: John Lewis 1-5 Logica. In Battersea in the summer, pre-match friendly. I only remember this huge centre half who continually humped the ball up in the air to great applause, and his partner a wee tiny centre half who continually headed the ball up into the air to great applause.
Previous Teams: Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of the Rosary, VVOR (Rotterdam), Odin 59 (Heemskerk).
Greatest Footballing Moment: What else? Lifting the World Cup twice [in 1995 and 1996]; Uefa Cup Final in Seville, 2003.
Worst Footballing Moment: UEFA Cup Final in Seville 2003; John Barnes.

INTEREST

Model Pro (Models His Game on You): Franco Baresi - learned to roll up my shirtsleeves from him, cultured dirty bastard; Danny Blind - underrated leader and defender; Frank Rijkaard - cos he's a huge Pixies fan.
Favourite All-Time Player: Ghod, Neil Lennon; and playing for lesser teams - Maradona of course
Pre-Match Superstition: Swear a lot when the team is losing; Have a ginger player in the team; Always wear the number 4 shirt.
Interesting Trivia: Gave up playing football from age 13 to 30 when Tommy Coyne took my position at centre forward in the school team and I went off in an extended huff.

REFERENCES

Supporting Material: Jules Rimet Going Dutch Double Dutch Lag Leader

VITAL STATISTICS

	CLUB				COUNTRY
	Season	Apps	Goals		World Cup	Apps	Goals
	1992-93	16+1	0		2001	6	0
	1993-94	14	0		2004	6	0
	TOTAL	30+1	0		2005	6	0
					2006	6	2
					2007	5	2
					2008	6	0
					2009	6	1
					TOTAL	41	5
Notes: [1] '+' indicates domestic appearances as substititute. [2] Rolling substitutes used in World Cup; any appearance during a match counts as one. [3] Statistics do not include friendlies, nor goals scored in penalty shoot-outs. [4] Logica FC records are only extant from the 1988-89 season onwards. [5] International statistics are only available for England (Lags, Pups and Nippers). [6] Player statistics included with CVs will only be updated at the end of each season. [7] Click on links to archives for a particular Season or World Cup.