Vince Bartram
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| Vince Bartram | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vincent Lee Bartram | |
| Date of birth | August 7, 1968 | |
| Place of birth | Birmingham, England | |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |
| Youth clubs | ||
1985–1986 |
Oldswinford FC Wolverhampton Wanderers |
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| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1986–1991 1989 1990 1991 1991–1994 1994–1998 1997 1998–2004 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers → Blackpool (loan) → Cheltenham Town (loan) → West Bromwich Albion (loan) Bournemouth Arsenal → Huddersfield Town (loan) Gillingham |
5 (0) 9 (0) 5 (0) 0 (0) 132 (0) 11 (0) 12 (0) 187 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Vincent Lee Bartram (born 7 August 1968 in Birmingham) is an English former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.
[edit] Career
Bartram's first professional club was Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1985 who signed him from non-league, making his first team debut on 23 August 1986 in a 2-1 home defeat to Cambridge United, that marked the club's first-ever game in the fourth tier. However, this proved his only Wolves league outing until April 1991 as the club brought in Mark Kendall, and later Mike Stowell, who were both virtual ever-presents.
Instead, Bartram had loan spells with Blackpool, Cheltenham Town and West Bromwich Albion, before finally leaving Molineux for Bournemouth in July 1991 for £35,000. He played 132 league games for Bournemouth before moving to Arsenal for £250,000 in 1994. At Arsenal he was David Seaman's understudy, and played just 11 games in four seasons (all in 1994/95). To gain playing time, he spent 12 games on loan with Huddersfield Town in late 1997.
He signed for Gillingham in March 1998 initially signing on loan. He firmly established himself as the first-choice goalkeeper at the Priestfield Stadium and helped them to the Division Two play-off final in his first full season, where they lost out to Manchester City on penalties. The following season saw them go one step further as they beat Wigan Athletic in the play-off final to reach the second tier for the first time in the club's history.
In total, he made over 200 appearances for the Gills, before his retirement from the game in February 2004 due to a wrist injury. Bizarrely, the injury was caused by a collision with the opposition goalkeeper (Tony Warner), who had come upfield to try and score a goal from a last-minute corner.
He is now a level 3 FA Coach and runs a soccer school for under 12's(SoccerStarsUK) and as a goalkeeping coach in Bournemouth (www.keeperstarsuk.co.uk) coaching goalkeepers of all ages. He also works as a coach for the AFC Bournemouth Centre of Excellence.[citation needed]
