David Rouse
David Rouse is an English former footballer who played in the Football League as a goalkeeper for Macclesfield Town. He is currently the goalkeeping coach at Stoke City.Career
As a youth Rouse was with Stockport County and then on Bury's books, before moving into coaching while playing semi-professional football. He worked for eight years at Manchester United, where he worked with young goalkeepers such as Luke Steele, Tom Heaton, Tommy Lee, Ben Amos, Sam Johnstone and Luke Daniels. In the 2006–07 season he was goalkeeping coach at Macclesfield Town, and played once for the first team in an injury crisis, in a 1–0 defeat to Barnet, thus making his Football League debut at the age of 30. He also worked with Rochdale and Wigan Athletic before joining Queens Park Rangers as goalkeeping coach in February 2008. He was first team goalkeeping coach there for 4 years. During this time QPR twice wom the award for most clean sheets in the Championship. In 2011, he won promotion with QPR to the Premier League, with first choice goalkeeper Paddy Kenny winning the Goalkeeper of the Season for the Championship. In 2012, he moved into the role of U21 goalkeeping coach and wrote and oversaw the implementation of a new academy goalkeeping syllabus.
In December 2014, Rouse joined Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates as head goalkeeping coach. In his first season there, Al Ain won their 12th AGL League title and reached the knockout stages of the Asian Champions League.
In September 2017, Rouse was named as the goalkeeping coach for the Chinese Taipei national football team. Rouse was appointed goalkeeping coach at Stoke City in December 2019.
