Chris Coleman (footballer)

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Chris Coleman
Personal information
Full name	Christopher Coleman
Date of birth	10 June 1970 (1970-06-10) (age 38)
Place of birth	Swansea, Wales
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Defender (retired)
Youth clubs
	Manchester City
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1987–1991 1991–1995 1995–1997 1997–2002	Swansea City Crystal Palace Blackburn Rovers Fulham Total	160 00(2) 154 0(13) 028 00(0) 136 00(8) 478 0(23)
National team
1992–2002	Wales	032 00(4)
Teams managed
2003–2007 2007–2008 2008–	Fulham Real Sociedad Coventry City
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Christopher "Chris" Coleman (born 10 June 1970 in Swansea, Glamorgan) is a Welsh football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of Coventry City.

As a player, he usually played in defence while also occasionally appearing as a forward. His most significant achievements in the sport include winning 32 caps for Wales and attaining a respectable ninth place finish in the Premier League as the manager of Fulham, who had been tipped for relegation, in 2004. Coleman was manager of Real Sociedad after managing Fulham but resigned in January 2008, citing differences with the incoming president. He took up the post of Coventry City back in England in February 2008.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Playing career 2.1 Swansea City 2.2 Crystal Palace 2.3 Blackburn Rovers 2.4 Fulham 3 Career statistics 4 Managerial career 4.1 Fulham 4.2 Real Sociedad 4.3 Coventry City 5 Managerial stats 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Biography

Coleman was born in Swansea, but actually grew up in and around Gloucester. The first professional team he was contracted to was Manchester City, aged 16, although he later left them to join Swansea City.

[edit] Playing career

[edit] Swansea City

Coleman made his first professional appearance for Swansea aged 17, in 1987. He made nearly 200 appearances for the south Wales club.

[edit] Crystal Palace

After spending four years with his hometown club, Crystal Palace signed Coleman for a transfer fee set by a Football League tribunal at around a quarter of a million pounds, plus a percentage of any future sale. After making 143 appearances, scoring 16 goals in that period – a 1 in 9 record explained by the fact that manager Steve Coppell often used Coleman as a makeshift centre forward – he moved to Blackburn Rovers. The major lowlight of this period was relegation from the Premiership, but he did obtain his first cap for Wales while contracted to Palace.

In 2005, Palace supporters voted Coleman into their Centenary XI.

[edit] Blackburn Rovers

Coleman joined Premier League champions Blackburn for a fee of £2.8 million. Blackburn lost the Premiership title they had won in 1995, and finished seventh. Coleman made 28 Premier League appearances over his season-and-a-half at the club, and when he found himself out of the starting line-up too often (not helped by a persistent Achilles injury), he took the gamble to further his career by dropping two divisions to join Fulham.

[edit] Fulham

Fulham, at the time in the Second Division, were financed by wealthy businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed, and were able to spend a record transfer fee for the division of over £2 million for Coleman in late 1997. He quickly became club captain, and led Fulham to promotion under manager Kevin Keegan in 1998–99 to the First Division.

He remained captain and a regular in team under new manager Jean Tigana in the 2000–01 season as Fulham made a successful start to the campaign. However, Coleman's career was ended midway through the season after he broke his leg in a car crash in Surrey in January 2001 – just days before an FA Cup tie against Manchester United. He never recovered from this injury despite playing a reserve fixture in March 2002, which only served as an indication that he would never play at the highest level of English football again.

[edit] Career statistics

Club Performance			League		Cup		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
England			League		FA Cup		Total
1987-88	Swansea City	Fourth Division	30	0
1988-89		Third Division	43	0
1989-90			46	2
1990-91			41	0
1991-92	Crystal Palace	First Division	18	4
1992-93		Premier League	38	5
1993-94		First Division	46	3
1994-95		Premier League	35	1
1995-96		First Division	17	0
1995-96	Blackburn Rovers	Premier League	20	0
1996-97			8	0
1997-98			0	0
1997-98	Fulham	Second Division	26	1
1998-99			45	4
1999-00		First Division	40	3
2000-01			25	0
2001-02		Premier League	0	0
Total	England		478	23
Career Total			478	23

[edit] Managerial career

[edit] Fulham

Coleman joined Fulham's coaching staff in October 2002 under Tigana. He later succeeded the Frenchman as caretaker manager in April 2003, and steered Fulham away from relegation danger. He was named as Fulham's permament manager in May 2003, beating the more experienced Klaus Toppmöller and George Burley to the post, and also became the youngest manager in the Premier League.^[1]

His first full season in charge saw Fulham finish a surprise ninth place, as many pundits tipped them to struggle and for Coleman to be sacked.^[2] Many of Fulham's key players, such as Edwin van der Sar, Louis Saha, Steed Malbranque and Luis Boa Morte, were sold in the following years and Fulham didn't repeat their earlier successes under Coleman though he kept them clear of relegation. He was sacked in April 2007, when Fulham went on a seven game winless run.^[3]

[edit] Real Sociedad

Coleman moved abroad to manage recently relegated Segunda División side Real Sociedad in June 2007 after being recommended to the club by fellow Welshman and former Real Sociedad manager John Toshack.^[4] He was linked with Bolton Wanderers in October 2007^[5] though nothing came of it. Coleman resigned as manager on 16 January 2008, citing a divergence in vision for the club with newly elected President Inaki Badiola.^[6]

[edit] Coventry City

Coleman was appointed manager of Championship side Coventry City on 19 February 2008, signing a three and a half year contract. He replaced Iain Dowie, who had been sacked by new owner Ray Ranson.^[7]

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Fulham		17 April 2003	10 April 2007	176	61	71	44	34.65
Real Sociedad		28 June 2007	16 January 2008	18	8	7	5	40.00
Coventry City		19 February 2008	Present	15	4	6	5	26.67

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Chris Coleman career stats at Soccerbase
• Chris Coleman management career stats at Soccerbase

Awards
Preceded by Andy Thorn	Crystal Palace F.C. Player of The Year 1994	Succeeded by Richard Shaw
Sporting positions
Preceded by Miguel Ángel Lotina	Real Sociedad manager 2007–2008	Succeeded by José Ramón Eizmendi

v • d • e Coventry City F.C. – current squad 1 Konstantopoulos • 3 Hall • 4 Fox • 5 Ward • 8 Doyle • 11 Birchall • 15 McKenzie • 16 Osbourne • 17 Mifsud • 18 McNamee • 21 Tabb • 22 Best • 23 Ireland • 24 Simpson • 25 Gray • 26 Dann • 28 Borrowdale • 29 Thornton • 31 Simmonds • 33 Marshall • 34 Turner • 36 Francis • — Beuzelin • Manager: Coleman Assistant: Kean

v • d • e Fulham F.C. – Managers Harry Bradshaw (1904–09) • Kelso (1909–24) • Ducat (1924–26) • Joe Bradshaw (1926–29) • Liddell (1929–31) • McIntyre (1931–34) • Hogan (1934–35) • Peart (1935–48) • Osborne (1948–49) • Bill Dodgin, Sr. (1949–53) • Osborne (1953–56) • Livingstone (1956–58) • Jezzard (1958–64) • Buckingham (1965–68) • Robson (1968) • Bill Dodgin, Jr. (1969–72) • Stock (1972–76) • Campbell (1976–80) • Macdonald (1980–84) • Harford (1984–86) • Lewington (1986–90) • Dicks (1990–91) • Mackay (1991–94) • Branfoot (1994–96) • Adams (1996–97) • Wilkins (1997–98) • Keegan (1998–99) • Bracewell (1999–2000) • Tigana (2000–03) • Coleman (2003–07) • Sanchez (2007) • Lewington (2007) • Hodgson (2007–)

v • d • e Coventry City F.C. – Managers Stanley (1883–85s) • Hathaway (1885–87s) • Morgan (1887–92s) • Kirk (1893–s) • Maley (1893–s) • Collins (1893–95s) • Cashmore (1895–1900s) • Newhall (1900–02s) • O'Shea (1902–05s) • Beaman (1905–08s) • Harris (1908–09s) • Buckle (1909–10) • Wallace (1910–13) • Scott-Walford (1913–15) • Howard (1915–17c) • Clayton (1919–19) • Pollitt (1919–20) • Evans (1920–24) • Harbourne (1924c) • Kerr (1924–28) • McIntyre (1928–31) • Slade (1931c) • Storer (1931–45) • Bayliss (1945–47) • Frith (1947–48) • Storer (1948–53) • Fairbrother (1953–54) • Elliott (1954–55c) • Carver (1955–56) • Raynor (1956) • Warren (1956–57) • Frith (1957–61) • Hill (1961–67) • Cantwell (1967–72) • Dennison (1972c) • Mercer (1972–74) • Milne (1974–81) • Sexton (1981–83) • Gould (1983–84) • Mackay (1984–86) • Curtis (1986–87) • Sillett (1987–90) • Butcher (1990–92) • Howe (1992c) • Gould (1992–93) • Neal (1993–95) • Atkinson (1995–96) • Strachan (1996–01) • Nilsson (2001–02) • Peake (2002c) • McAllister (2002–03) • Black (2003–04) • Ogrizovic (2004c) • Reid (2004–05) • Heath (2005c) • Adams (2005–07) • Heath (2007c) • Dowie (2007–08) • Harbin & Bunn (2008c) • Coleman (2008–) (s) secretary (c) caretaker

Persondata
NAME	Chris Coleman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH	10 June 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Swansea, Wales
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH