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Key facts
- Full name
- Mark Nelson Paston
- Date of birth
- ( 1976-12-13 ) 13 December 1976 (age 49)
- Place of birth
- Hastings, New Zealand
- Height
- 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Years
- Team
- 1997 2003
- Napier City Rovers
- 2003 2004
- Bradford City
- 2004 2005
- Walsall
- 2005 2006
- St Johnstone
- 2006 2007
- New Zealand Knights
- 2007 2013
- Wellington Phoenix
- 1997 2013
- New Zealand
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mark
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Hastings
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- New Zealand men's national football team
- Position played
- goalkeeper
- Country for sport
- New Zealand
- Image
- Paston1.jpg
- Height
- 195
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- date of birth
- 1976-12-13
- end of work period
- 2013-00-00
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Mark Nelson Paston (born 13 December 1976) is a New Zealand former professional football goalkeeper. He played for the Wellington Phoenix in the A-League from 2007 to 2013 before he retired from professional football. Paston represented New Zealand at Under-23 level and made his full All Whites debut against Indonesia in 1997, but did not feature in another full international until 2003.
Paston was named in the New Zealand 2009 Confederations Cup squad to travel to South Africa, In 2009, he played in the World Cup Qualification playoff against Bahrain, saving a penalty and helping to secure New Zealand's qualification for the World Cup for only the second time in its history and he went all to play goalkeeper for the team in all of New Zealand's matches, including against Slovakia, Italy, and Paraguay.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mark Paston” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.