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Former association football player
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30 July 1939(Apia, Samoa)
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Biography
Rodney Ernest Reid (born 30 July 1939) is a retired New Zealand association football player who represented New Zealand at international level and played first class cricket for Wellington Firebirds.
Born in Apia in Western Samoa, Reid played 13 matches for Wellington from 1958/59 to 1960/61, taking 39 wickets at 26.48 with a best of 6 for 57 with his right arm medium pace and scoring 205 runs at 12.81.
Reid played two official A-international matches for the New Zealand national football team in 1958, the first a 2–3 loss against trans-Tasman neighbours Australia on 16 August 1958, the second a 5–1 win over New Caledonia on 7 September that same year.