David Rodd was born December 15th, 1947 in Aberdeen, Scotland. "Big Red" signed late into the 1977 season on loan from Aberdeen FC, where he had won the Scottish League Cup. He had his jaw broken in his first game for the Rowdies against the Rochester Lancers. Then for the next five games played with his jaw wired shut. Finished that year with five goals and one assist in only 16 games.
In 1978 was signed to a three year contract by Coach Gordon Jago. Returned to the UK to play for Norwich City for the 1978/79 season, playing in five games and scoring one goal.
In an off-season transaction saw Davie sign for the Philadelphia Fury in 1979, where he would continue in the same vain that had made him so popular with the Rowdies fans. Scoring 18 goals.
Then it was onto the 1980 Vancouver Whitecaps, starting in only 4 games and coming off the bench 11 times, without scoring a goal. A mid-season trade saw him move to the Tulsa Roughnecks, were he notched up four goals in 14 games.
Later, he worked and lived in Denmark for an oil company. Then he ran the Charleston Hotel, in Aboyne, Aberdeen, up until 2006.
Thanks to Mike Connell for the photo.
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