Sad to see Gouldie go after his 26 year association with football in New Zealand (he got sidetracked after his first spell out here in 1989 by a couple of hundred games for Celtic etc. and a few internationals for Scotland).
Who would have thought that a twenty year-old Napier City Rovers centre-back would go on to a career as a professional goalkeeper (346 games, including 157 games in goal for Celtic and three SPL titles).
Gouldie must be the only player in modern football history to win a title in the top league of one country as a regular centre-back (Napier City Rovers, 1989) and in another as a first-choice goalkeeper (Celtic, Scottish Premier League 1997-98, 2000-2001).
Gouldie showed he's still a sharp keeper when he took part in the major charity match at Celtic Park last September as his Celtic Legends defeated Rio Ferdinand's XI 3-2.
Gouldie played the second half for the Celtic Legends - and kept a clean sheet against Andy Cole, Dwight Yorke, Zola and Scholes:
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl/celtic...
For the full video of this game, see the first post in this thread above.
Lest we forget his outstanding Celtic career:
"Celtic plucked Gould from Bradford City's reserves in August 1997 and he made his debut on 9 August 1997 in a 7-0 away win over Berwick Rangers in the Scottish League Cup. He quickly became one of the mainstays of the great championship winning side that prevented Rangers completing 10 in a row. Gould kept 24 clean sheets in 48 appearances that season and his performance in a gruelling 1-0 win over Aberdeen at Pittodrie in March 1998 was particularly outstanding. In addition to his league championship winner's medal, Gould also picked a Scottish League Cup winner's medal that season in Celtic's 3-0 win over Dundee United in November 1997.
He continued as the No 1 under the stewardship of Josef Venglos and John Barnes. During 1999–2000 Gould generally remained the first-choice goalkeeper at Parkhead despite the arrival of Dmitri Kharine, and picked up another Scottish League Cup winner's medal when Celtic defeated Aberdeen 2-0 in the final on 19 March 2000. However, despite opening the 2000-01 Treble winning season as first choice and playing in opening 13 league fixtures, Martin O'Neill signed Rab Douglas as a replacement. Douglas soon became first choice at Celtic, although Gould completed his hat-trick of Scottish League Cup winner's medals that season with Celtic's 3-0 win over Kilmarnock in the final on 18 March 2001 (Douglas was cup-tied having played for Dundee in an earlier round of the tournament). He also collected his second league championship winner's medal courtesy of his appearances earlier that season."