1. Louis Bartholomew Dodds was born on 8 October 1986 and is an English former footballer who played either as a midfielder or as a striker who is a coach at Northern Premier League Division One West club Congleton Town.
39 Facts About Louis Dodds
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Louis Dodds turned down a new deal with Leicester to sign for Port Vale in July 2008.
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Louis Dodds ended his eight-year spell at Port Vale when he joined league rivals Shrewsbury Town in May 2016.
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Louis Dodds left Shrewsbury for Chesterfield in January 2018, who were relegated out of the English Football League at the end of the season.
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Louis Dodds was born Sheffield, though he moved with his family to Leicester when he was 3 months old and joined the Leicester City youth academy at the age of ten.
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Louis Dodds signed a new contract with the "Foxes" to keep him at the club until the summer of 2007.
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Louis Dodds scored two goals in twelve games for the "Dale".
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Louis Dodds scored nine goals during his spell with Lincoln City and was voted as scorer of the club's goal of the season for his long-range strike against Wycombe Wanderers.
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Louis Dodds showed an interest in joining the club permanently.
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Louis Dodds was offered a new contract at parent club Leicester, but instead joined League Two's Port Vale on 21 July 2008, penning a two-year deal.
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On 9 August 2008, Louis Dodds made his first start for the Vale in the opening game of the season against Luton Town and he was quick to win over his new supporters, scoring Vale's opening goal of the season with a 20 yards right-footed shot.
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Louis Dodds further enhanced his popularity with the Vale faithful with a long range strike against Shrewsbury Town.
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Louis Dodds especially enjoyed great popularity with the club's female support, as he took away the club's 2009 "Mr Shirt of the Back" Award; he went on to pick up the award for three seasons running.
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Louis Dodds maintained his first-team place however, scoring seven goals in 48 appearances.
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However, in January 2011, Louis Dodds found he was not a first-team regular under new manager Jim Gannon, despite calls from supporters for Gannon to include Louis Dodds in the first XI.
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Louis Dodds agreed to commit his future to the club in May 2012.
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Vale secured promotion with a third-place finish at the end of the season, with Louis Dodds finishing on seven goals in 36 games.
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Louis Dodds agreed to sign a new two-year contract in the summer.
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Louis Dodds ended the campaign with four goals in 34 games, helping the club to a ninth-place finish in League One.
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Louis Dodds fitted in well to Page's system, with a greater emphasis on possession than under Micky Adams.
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Louis Dodds passed the 300 career league game mark during the campaign, but admitted he was worried about his future at the club as his contract was due to expire in the summer and chairman Norman Smurthwaite was in no hurry to negotiate new deals with any of the playing squad.
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Louis Dodds signed a one-year contract with the option for a further year in June 2015.
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Louis Dodds signed a two-year contract with Micky Mellon's League One side Shrewsbury Town in May 2016.
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Louis Dodds signed an 18-month contract with League Two side Chesterfield on 31 January 2018 after leaving Shrewsbury on a free transfer.
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Louis Dodds initially failed to secure a first-team spot for Jack Lester's "Spireites" after a series of niggling injuries caused his form to dip.
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Manager Neil Aspin said that Louis Dodds had been keen on a return to Vale Park and "he has cost us next to nothing really".
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On 1 August 2019, Louis Dodds signed with National League club Chorley after impressing manager Jamie Vermiglio on trial.
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Louis Dodds confirmed his departure from Victory Park in May 2020.
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On 1 July 2020, Louis Dodds signed for Southern League Premier Division Central side Hednesford Town.
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On 6 May 2021, Louis Dodds returned to Stoke-on-Trent to join ambitious North West Counties League Premier Division Central club Hanley Town, who were managed by his former Port Vale teammate Carl Dickinson.
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Louis Dodds stated that he preferred to play in the centre of the pitch.
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Louis Dodds has unbelievable quality and he's always trying different things.
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Louis Dodds has that ability similar to how Dennis Bergkamp used to be at Arsenal.
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Louis Dodds was appointed to the coaching staff at Hanley Town upon retiring as a player.
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In October 2024, following the resignation of manager Ryan Shotton, Louis Dodds departed the club.
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Louis Dodds then began coaching at Congleton Town, who were managed by his former Vale teammate Richard Duffy.
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Louis Dodds was born in Sheffield and grew up supporting Sheffield Wednesday, but now lives in Stoke-on-Trent with his wife and children.
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Louis Dodds began writing a column in Staffordshire newspaper The Sentinel in November 2015.
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Louis Dodds became a schoolteacher after retiring from professional football.