Pat Rice

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Pat Rice
MBE

Rice in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Patrick James Rice
Date of birth	(1949-03-17) 17 March 1949 (age 75)
Place of birth	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position(s)	Right back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1967–1980	Arsenal	397	(12)
1980–1984	Watford	112	(1)
Total		509	(13)
International career
1968–1979	Northern Ireland	49	(0)
Managerial career
1984–1996	Arsenal (Youth team coach)
1996	Arsenal (Caretaker manager)
1996–2012	Arsenal (Assistant manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Patrick James Rice, MBE (born 17 March 1949) is a Northern Irish former footballer and coach. As a player, he made nearly 400 appearances for Arsenal, winning the Double, and later made a hundred more appearances for Watford. He also won 49 caps for Northern Ireland. After retirement from playing professionally he was at the helm of Arsenal's Academy teams, then served as assistant manager of Arsenal, a position he held since the appointment of Arsène Wenger in 1996, and helped the club to two more Doubles, amongst other silverware, in that time. He announced his retirement from the post on 10 May 2012.^[2]