Mick Wadsworth

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Mick Wadsworth
Personal information
Full name Michael Wadsworth
Date of birth November 3, 1950 (1950-11-03) (age 57)
Place of birth    Yorkshire, England
Playing position Striker
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1976–1977 Scunthorpe United 28 (3)   
Teams managed
1993–1996
1996–1999
1999
2001–2002
2002–2003
2003–2004
2004
2008		 Carlisle United
Scarborough
Colchester United
Oldham Athletic
Huddersfield Town
DR Congo
Beira-Mar
Gretna (Caretaker)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Michael "Mick" Wadsworth (born 3 November 1950 in Yorkshire, England) is an English football coach and former player, who most recently had the role of caretaker manager and Director of Football at Scottish club Gretna.

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[edit] Playing career

Wadsworth was, for a very short time, a player. But with his league playing experience limited to around 20 appearances for Scunthorpe United in the 1976–77 season, it is for coaching that he is best known.

A non-league playing career with clubs including Gainsborough Trinity and Mossley ended at Frickley Athletic, where Wadsworth was player-manager. Wadsworth was then employed by the FA until commencing his club management career in 1993.

[edit] Coaching career

[edit] The FA

In 1985, Wadsworth was appointed as an FA regional coach in the north-west region of England, a position he would hold until 1991, when he became a Technical Co-ordinator on the FA's Excellence Programme, working on the futures of promising youngsters. Between 1988 and 1992, he was also an official match observer for the England national team under Bobby Robson and then Graham Taylor.

Wadsworth also coached some of the FA's representative teams during his time in their employ, including a coaching role with the national team at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He spent two years as manager of the England non-league team, five years as manager of the England youth team and had a coaching role with the England U-21 team.

[edit] Post-FA Positions

In 1993 Wadsworth was offered a coaching role at PSV Eindhoven, but couldn't accept due to a lack of Dutch coaching credentials. In August, however he was appointed Carlisle United manager. Carlisle finished 7th in Division Three and made the playoffs, but lost in the semi-final. The following season Carlisle reached the Auto Windscreens Trophy final but lost to to Birmingham City. In the league the club finished 1st in Division Three, winning promotion.

After a poor start to 1995–96 in Division Two, Wadsworth resigned. In January 1996 Wadsworth became the assistant to the inexperienced Gary Megson at Norwich City. Norwich were to finish the season 16th of 24 in Division One. At the end of the season he moved to Scarborough as manager and took the club to the play-off semi-finals in his second season.

In January 1999 Wadsworth left Scarborough to manage Colchester United, who finished 18th in Division Two that May. In the close-season, Wadsworth held a short-term coaching role with St. Kitts & Nevis. Not long afterwards, however, Wadsworth resigned from Colchester, on August 25, 1999 and spends two weeks working with Steve Coppell at Crystal Palace before becoming assistant manager to Bobby Robson at Newcastle United.

In May 2000 Newcastle finished 11th in the Premier League, a position they would repeat in 2001. Wadsworth was to leave Newcastle in June 2001, without telling Robson, to become assistant manager to Stuart Gray at Southampton. In November the duo were sacked after a very poor start to the season. The following month he was appointed manager of Oldham Athletic but was fired at the end of the season after finishing ninth in Division Two.

He was appointed manager of Huddersfield Town in July 2002, but by January 2003 he was sacked but as Wadsworth and the club could not agree a severance package, he was reinstated until March. Despite nearly single handedly killing "The Terriers", in November 2003 he was appointed manager of Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of African Nations Cup, for which they had qualified. He was sacked from "The Simbas" on 2 February 2004, the day after the team had lost their third of three matches in the tournament.

In June 2004 he was appointed manager of Portuguese club Beira-Mar, but left in September amid claims of boardroom interference. Wadsworth re-surfaced at Shrewsbury Town in January 2005 as assistant manager to Gary Peters and remained with the club until March 2006. Wadsworth was appointed Director of Club Development at Scottish side Gretna in July 2006, and he later took on his current dual role as Director of Football and assistant manager when David Irons was appointed as Gretna's new manager in July 2007.[1]

On 19 May 2008, forty members of staff at Gretna, including Wadsworth, were laid off due to financial difficulties and after relegation.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Irons will lead Gretna into SPL. BBC Sport. Retrieved on July 17, 2007.
  2. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gretna/7408191.stm BBC Sport - Retrieved on 19 May 2008

[edit] External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Mitch Cook		 Scarborough F.C. manager
1996–1999		 Succeeded by
Colin Addison
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Persondata
NAME Wadsworth, Mick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wadsworth, Michael
SHORT DESCRIPTION Football (soccer) coach
DATE OF BIRTH 1950-11-03
PLACE OF BIRTH Yorkshire, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH