Ricky Sbragia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ricky Sbragia
Personal information
Full name Richard Sbragia
Date of birth May 26, 1956 (1956-05-26) (age 52)
Place of birth    Lennoxtown, Scotland
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Sunderland (First team coach)
Youth clubs
1972–1974 Birmingham City
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1974–1978
1975–1976
1978–1980
1980–1982
1982–1987
1985		 Birmingham City
→ Greenock Morton (loan)
Walsall
Blackpool
York City
→ Darlington (loan)		 015 (1)
004 (0)
077 (4)
026 (1)
149 (7)
006 (0)   
Teams managed
2007 Bolton Wanderers (joint caretaker)

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

Richard "Ricky" Sbragia (born May 26, 1956) is a Scottish former footballer and is currently a coach at Sunderland.

[edit] Career

A Scot of Italian descent, born in Lennoxtown, his career spanned from 1974 to 1985, playing for Birmingham City, Greenock Morton, Walsall, Blackpool, York City and Darlington.

He commenced his coaching career with York City in 1990 before joining Sunderland in a coaching capacity in 1994.

He moved to Manchester United in 2002 and built up a successful reserve side, nurturing the fledgling talents of Kieran Richardson and Darren Fletcher, amongst others. He was appointed as first-team coach of Bolton Wanderers on 10 October 2005.[1]

After the departure of Sam Allardyce from Bolton Wanderers on 29 April 2007, Sbragia was appointed joint-caretaker-manager of the team with Allardyce's assistant Sammy Lee. However, the following day Lee was appointed as the full-time manager of Bolton, until the end of the season, with Sbragia retaining his position as first-team coach alongside Jimmy Phillips and Gary Speed.[2]

Sbragia rejoined Sunderland's coaching staff in November 2007.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Sbragia leaves Man Utd for Bolton", BBC Sport, 2005-10-11. Retrieved on 2007-04-04. 
  2. ^ Lee's New Management Structure Revealed. Bolton Wanderers F.C. (2007-05-03). Retrieved on 2008-03-13.
  3. ^ "Ricky Joins The Black Cats", Bolton Wanderers F.C., 2007-11-23. Retrieved on 2007-11-24. 

[edit] External links

Persondata
NAME Sbragia, Ricky
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sbragia, Richard
SHORT DESCRIPTION Professional footballer, coach
DATE OF BIRTH 1956-05-26
PLACE OF BIRTH Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
This biographical article related to a Scottish football defender is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.