Peter Chandler
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| Peter Chandler | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Peter Chandler | |
| Date of birth | ||
| Place of birth | Duxbury, Massachusetts, United States | |
| Playing position | Forward / Defender | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| Springfield College | ||
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1975-1976 1977 1978 |
Hartford Bicentennials Connecticut Bicentennials Tampa Bay Rowdies |
31 (0) 9 (0) 4 (0) |
| National team2 | ||
| 1975 | United States | 3 (0) |
| Teams managed | ||
| Peak to Peak Charter School | ||
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Peter Chandler is a former U.S. soccer player who spent four seasons in the North American Soccer League. He also earned three caps with the U.S. national team in 1975.
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[edit] College
Chandler attended Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts where he played as a forward on the men’s soccer team during the early 1970s.[1] He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physical education. He later attended the University of South Florida where he earned a master’s degree in physical education.
[edit] NASL
The expansion Hartford Bicentennials of the North American Soccer League signed Chandler for the 1975 season. While he was a forward in college, the Bicentennials moved Chandler to defense. After the 1976 season, the Bicentennials moved to New Haven, Connecticut and adopted the name, the Connecticut Bicentennials. Chandler played nine games of the 1977 season with Connecticut. The team moved again at the end of the season, this time to Oakland, California. However, Chandler did not remain with the team, but signed with the Tampa Bay Rowdies for the 1978 season. Some accounts state that he played with the Rowdies through 1981. If he did, he did not appear in any games with the team after the 1978 season.
In addition to his regular teams, Chandler was part of an NASL All Star team, called Team America, which competed with the national teams of Italy, Brazil and England in the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial Cup.
[edit] National team
Chandler played three games with the U.S. national team. All three came in the August 1974 Mexico City Cup. His first game was a 3-1 loss to Costa Rica on August 19, 1975. The team then lost to Argentina two days later and finished with a 2-0 loss to Mexico on August 24.[2]
[edit] Coaching
After retiring from playing professional soccer, Chandler entered the educational career field. He has served as a high school physical education teacher, athletic director and soccer, basketball and baseball coach. He is currently the head coach of the boys’ soccer team and an assistant with the girls’ soccer team at Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette, Colorado. In 2005, he took his boys’ team to the 2005 Colorado Class 3A State championship. In 1989, Chandler and his wife had quintuplets. Four of those were girls who now play on the Peak to Peak Charter School soccer team.[3]
