Chris Coleman
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Christopher Patrick Coleman, OBE, (born 10 June 1970) is a Welsh professional football coach and former player who most recently served as the manager of Hebei China Fortune, a Chinese Super League club. Coleman, as a player, played in defense, but he did occasionally appear as a forward.
He began his career at Manchester City and departed as a teenager to make his debut for hometown team Swansea City in 1987.
He joined Crystal Palace in 1991, whom he portrayed in the Premier League.
He spent a year-and-a-half with the Blackburn Rovers before moving to Fulham in 1997, leading the team to two promotions from the third tier to the top flight.
He earned 32 caps for Wales.
Coleman's playing career came to an end at the age of 32 when his leg was broken in a car accident. He began his Fulham coaching career after this.
He led the club to ninth place in the 2003–04 Premier League during his first full season as manager.
Coleman was named boss of Real Sociedad, which he resigned in January 2008 due to internal disagreements with the new president, after leaving Fulham.
After a poor run of results, he returned to England to lead Coventry City, but was suspended in May 2010.
Coleman ruled Greek side AEL for the first half of the 2011–12 season before resigning due to financial difficulties at the club.
He took over Wales' national team boss after Gary Speed's death in 2012, leading Wales to UEFA Euro 2016, their first major tournament since the 1958 FIFA World Cup, where they reached the semi-finals.
Early life
Coleman was born in Swansea to an Irish father and has two sisters. He was educated at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School and Bishop Vaughan Catholic School. Since childhood, Coleman has been referred to the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street by friends.
Personal life
Charlotte Jackson, a television presenter, is married to him. At the end of 2014, they had a boy. Ronan Curtis, a Republic of Ireland player who plays as a forward for Portsmouth, is Coleman's godson.
Coleman served as a commentator for ITV at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa in June 2010. He has also worked as a commentator and pundit for Sky Sports. He is currently working for ESPN in Frankfurt, Germany, for Euro 2020.
The City of Swansea's Freedom was granted on October 20, 2016. In the 2017 New Year Honours for services to football, Coleman was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). He received an honorary degree from his hometown University of Swansea, as well as fellowships from three other Welsh universities in 2017. In July 2017, he supported the Welsh Government's proposal to double the number of speakers of Welsh by 2050.
Playing career
Coleman, the first professional team, was contracted to Manchester City, aged 16, but the chief reason was homesickness. He then joined Swansea City, his hometown team.
In the fall of 1987, he made his first professional appearance for them aged 17. He made over 200 appearances for the south Wales club and helped win the Welsh Cup in 1989 and 1991.
Coleman was signed by Crystal Palace in 1991 for a transfer fee determined by a Football League tribunal, and a small part of any future sell. Coleman made 143 appearances, scoring 16 goals in that time, a 1 in 9 record, despite the fact that manager Steve Coppell often used Coleman as a makeshift center forward. Palace finished 10th in Coleman's first season at Selhurst Park in Coleman's first season, but the club was relegated from the new FA Premier League in his second season (although they did qualify for the semi-finals of the League Cup). At the first attempt, they received promotion as the champions of Division One, but they fell inevitably back to the bottom of both cups in the semi-finals this season. In December 1995, Coleman was sold to Blackburn Rovers, the current league champions, for £2.8 million. For the first time, when at Palace, he was capped for Wales at the senior level.
In 2005, Palace supporters accepted Coleman into the Centenary XI.
Coleman signed with Blackburn Rovers, the Premier League champions, for a £2.8 million price. Blackburn did not win the Premier League in 1995 and finished seventh, just missing out on a UEFA Cup spot. Coleman played in 28 league games over his season-and-a-half with the club, but when he found himself out of the starting lineup too often (not helped by a persistent Achilles injury), he decided to continue his career by dropping two divisions to Fulham.
Fulham was funded by wealthy businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed, and the club was able to pay a historic transfer fee for the division and club of £2.1 million for Coleman in late 1997. He grew into captaincy and led Fulham to promotion under new manager Kevin Keegan in 1998-1999 to the First Division.
Fulham continued as a regular in the team under new coach Jean Tigana in the 2000-01 season, despite a slow start to the season. Coleman's career was effectively ended midway through the season after he broke his leg in a car crash near Bletchingley, Surrey, on January 2nd, 2001, just days before an FA Cup match against Manchester United. Despite playing a reserve fixture in March 2002, he never recovered from this injury, an indication that he will never again play at the highest level of English football. In October 2002, he announced his retirement as a player but continued with the West London club as a member of the coaching staff.
Coleman was eligible to play for Wales, for the Republic of Ireland, through his Dublin-born father, and also for the United States through his maternal grandfather.
At school, youth, under-21, and senior levels, Coleman was capped by Wales. In the 1–0 victory over Germany at the Millennium Stadium, his leg injury came for Wales on May 14, 2002, when he was called up to the squad as a replacement for Danny Gabbidon.
Managerial career
Coleman joined Fulham's coaching staff in October 2002 under Tigana. In April 2003, he took over the Frenchman as caretaker boss and led Fulham out of relegation risk. In May 2003, Fulham's permanent manager was appointed, beating more experienced Klaus Toppmöller and George Burley to the post, and then becoming the Premier League's youngest manager.
Fulham's first full season in charge saw them finish in a surprising ninth position, with many pundits predicting them to fail and Coleman to be fired. Several of Fulham's key players, such as Edwin van der Sar, Louis Saha, Steed Malbranque, and Lus Boa Morte, were sold in the following years, but Fulham did not repeat their earlier triumphs under Coleman, although he kept them out of relegation. He was fired on April 10, 2007, a surprise to some observers, following a seven-game winless streak that left the club four points above the relegation zone.
After being recommended to the club by fellow Welshman and former Real Sociedad boss John Toshack, Coleman migrated to the United States to lead Real Sociedad's recently relegated Segunda División team Real Sociedad on July 4, 2007. In October 2007, he was linked to Bolton Wanderers but no one knew about it. Coleman resigned as manager on January 16, 2008, citing a change in vision for the club with newly elected President Iroko Badiola.
Coleman was appointed manager of Coventry City in February 2008, with a three-and-a-kind deal. Iain Dowie, who had been fired by new owner Ray Ranson, was replaced by him.
Coleman was no longer involved in the Wales national team, according to the BBC on August 26, 2008. His words had been misinterpreted later; when answering a question about whether or not Freddy Eastwood was fit to play for Wales, he said he wanted Eastwood to play for the club before returning to international service. Coleman was fired following Coventry's 19th-place finish during the 2009–10 season, their lowest league finish in more than 45 years. They would be recalled two years later.
Coleman was appointed as the head of Greece's AEL on May 26. Coleman announced in January 2012 that he would step down from his role as boss due to financial difficulties at the club.
Coleman was named team boss of Wales' national team on January 19th as the successor to his friend Gary Speed, who had died in November. He watched his assistant Osian Roberts take over in Speed's memorial match against Costa Rica in February, his first game in charge of Speed was a 2–0 loss over Mexico at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on May 27.
In the 25th minute of a potential 0–2 loss, Wales' first match in 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification was played at home to Belgium on September 7th, with centre back James Collins dismissed for a late lunge on Guillaume Gillet. The team lost 6–1 to Serbia in Novi Sad four days later; Coleman said in October 2015 that he considered leaving his position after the loss. Coleman won his first game against Scotland on October 12, 2012, beating Scotland 2–1. Wales led 1–0 for the majority of the game after a Gareth Bale penalty, but two late goals from the opponents ended any hopes of qualification.
Coleman led Wales to their highest ever rank on the FIFA World Rankings in October 2015, ranked 8th. The UEFA Euro 2016 tournament had been announced on October 10th, the first tournament qualification since 1958. The team came first in France, and they were disqualified from Northern Ireland and Belgium to progress to the semi-finals, losing to eventual champions Portugal. Coleman's leadership of the Welsh team at the tournament drew comparisons from other clubs.
Coleman had signed a two-year contract extension to start in the 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign on May 23, 2016, according to a Football Association of Wales press conference. Wales' 1–0 home loss to the Republic of Ireland on October 9, 2017 effectively kicked them out of qualification. Coleman resigned as Wales boss on November 17th.
Coleman was appointed as the new boss of Sunderland's underperforming Championship team on November 19th. Simon Grayson, who had left the Black Cats third from last season and within the relegation zone, was fired. Coleman's first game in charge was a 2–1 loss at Aston Villa, just two days after his appointment. Sunderland had scored eleven points out of a potential twenty-four under Coleman's guidance, briefly lifting out of the relegation zone into a twentieth-first position after a good run of form.
Coleman was informed that club chairman Ellis Short had declined to invest any more money into player transfers during the winter transfer window, despite the American businessman's statement that the club had decided to sell the team. Jake Clarke-Salter, Ovie Ejaria from Chelsea, Lee Camp from Cardiff City, Ashley Fletcher from Cardiff City, and Ashley Fletcher from Middlesbrough were among the few permanent transfers to join the club for free; Kazenga LuaLua was the only permanent transfer that window; he came from Brighton & Hove Albion on a free transfer.
Sunderland went on a nine-game winless streak after suffering defeating Derby County 4–1 at Pride Park, bringing an end to their transfer window nightmare. This was Coleman's last game in charge of Sunderland; the Black Cats had a season of three draws and three losses in their final six games. Following a 2–1 loss to Burton Albion at the Stadium of Light, relegation to League One was announced. Fulham lost 2–1 in his last game as coach. Coleman was fired shortly after the club's auction on April 29, 2018.
Coleman was appointed head coach of Hebei China Fortune in June as the successor to Manuel Pellegrini, who left the team to return to the Premier League with West Ham United. During the year, the club made a splash when completing the high-profile signing of Javier Mascherano from Spain's La Liga giants Barcelona. His team finished the 2018 Super League season in sixth place, two places, and fourteen points behind, adrift from qualifying to the 2019 AFC Champions League.
Coleman's side struggled to adapt in the 2019 league season, with the club occupying 15th position in the relegation zone following nine games. He was fired on May 15 after only winning one game in the league season, a 2–1 victory over Shanghai Greenland Shenhua.