Rodney Reid

{{Short description|New Zealand sportsman (1939–2022)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2013}}

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| name = Rodney Reid

| image = Rodney Reid 1959.jpg

| caption = Reid in 1959

| fullname = Rodney Ernest Reid

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| position = Inside-forward

| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|07|30|df=y}}

| birth_place = Apia, Territory of Western Samoa

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|5|12|1939|07|30|df=y}}

| death_place = Blenheim, New Zealand

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| clubs1 = Miramar Rangers

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| clubs2 = Seatoun

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| nationalyears1 = 1958

| nationalcaps1 = 2

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| nationalteam1 = New Zealand

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Rodney Ernest Reid (30 July 1939 – 12 May 2022) was a New Zealand association football player who represented New Zealand at international level{{cite web|url=http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZRepSoccer/id1708.htm|title=A-International Appearances – Overall|publisher=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website|accessdate=9 November 2009}} and played first-class cricket for Wellington.{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/rodney-reid-38303|title=Rodney Reid|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=9 November 2009}}

Born in Apia in Western Samoa, Reid played 13 first-class matches for Wellington from 1958–59 to 1960–61, taking 33 wickets at 29.72 with his right-arm medium pace and scoring 205 runs at 12.81. He was considered one of the most promising new players of the 1958–59 Plunket Shield season, the Christchurch Press noting: "His medium-paced bowling was remarkably steady, he averaged 25 with the bat, and he finished the series with a hat-trick against Otago."{{cite journal |title=Encouraging Performances in Plunket Shield Games |journal=Press |date=22 January 1959 |page=5 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19590122.2.20.4}} He took his best figures of 6 for 57 in the second innings when Wellington defeated Auckland by an innings in January 1960.{{cite web |title=Auckland v Wellington 1959-60 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23910.html |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=5 July 2022}}

Reid played two official A-international matches for the New Zealand national football team in 1958. The first was a 2–3 loss against trans-Tasman neighbours Australia on 16 August 1958 and the second was a 5–1 win over New Caledonia on 7 September.{{cite web|url=http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZRepSoccer/id1561.htm|title=A-International Lineups 1904-1959|publisher=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website|accessdate=9 November 2009}}