fullname youthclubs years clubs caps goals birth_place height totalcaps position birth_date totalgoals article_title name
matthew david rose arsenal 1997 -- 2007 2007 -- 2008 arsenal queens park rangers yeovil town 5 243 39 0 8 1 dartford , england 5 11 287 defender -lrb- retired -rrb- 24 september 1975 9 matthew rose -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 matthew rose
matthew rose -lrb- footballer -rrb-

matthew rose , -lrb- born 24 september 1975 in dartford , kent -rrb- , is a former english professional footballer who currently is head coach of arsenal 's european elite academy .
rose started at arsenal as a trainee , captaining his side to an fa youth cup victory in 1994 ; he made his first-team debut against manchester city on 5 march 1996 .
he made five appearances -lrb- three as sub -rrb- for the gunners before moving to qpr for # 500,000 in may 1997 .
his last game in an arsenal shirt saw him score an own goal although they went on to win 2-1 .
he became a regular at qpr and made over 250 appearances for them in all competitions .
one of the more important of the 8 goals he scored there was in september 2004 to seal a last minute 3-2 win at brighton with a left-foot curling shot into the top corner .
he was released from his contract by john gregory in january 2007 and left the club .
on 23 february , matthew signed for league one side yeovil town .
he scored his first and what turned out to be only goal for yeovil against bristol rovers in october 2007 .
at the end of the 2007-2008 season matthew rejected a new contract offer from yeovil town .
