Chris Casper

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Chris Casper
Personal information
Full name	Christopher Martin Casper
Date of birth	28 April 1975 (1975-04-28) (age 34)
Place of birth	Burnley, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Bradford City (Youth team coach)
Youth career
1991–1993	Manchester United
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993–1998 1996 1997 1998 1998–2000	Manchester United → Bournemouth (loan) → Swindon Town (loan) → Reading (loan) Reading Total	02 (0) 16 (1) 10 (1) 08 (0) 39 (0) 75 (2)
Teams managed
2005–2008	Bury
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Christopher Martin "Chris" Casper (born 28 April 1975 in Burnley, Lancashire) is an English football manager and former player, formerly in charge of Football League Two club Bury. He was the youngest manager in the top four tiers of the English football league system, and is the son of former Burnley striker Frank Casper. He is youth team coach at League Two side Bradford City.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial and coaching career 3 Managerial stats 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Playing career

Casper joined Manchester United as a trainee in 1991 and signed professional terms in January 1993, making his United debut in the League Cup game against Port Vale at Old Trafford on 5 October 1994. He served as captain of the England youth team, and was a member of the European Championship winning side in 1993. He also appeared for the England Under 21 side in Toulon in 1996.

Casper later had several spells on loan at Bournemouth and Swindon Town before moving to Reading in 1998.

[edit] Managerial and coaching career

He was playing for Reading against Cardiff City in a Division Two fixture in the 1999-2000 when he suffered a double leg fracture. This was the last professional game that Casper, then aged 24, ever played, as he later announced his retirement after failing to recover sufficiently from the injury.

While undergoing rehabilitation at the University of Bath, he coached the Team Bath side that reached the first round of the FA Cup in 2002-03.

He left to join Bury as youth coach before taking charge of the reserves in the 2004–05 season. At the beginning of the 2005–06 season, with six defeats from the first nine games, he replaced Graham Barrow as manager. Casper offered to resign in 2006 when Bury were thrown out of the FA Cup in the 2006–07 season for fielding an ineligible player, but this was rejected by the club's board. After a run of poor results he was fired in January 2008. Five months later, he was appointed youth team coach at fellow League Two side Bradford City, taking over from Jon Pepper.^[1]

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Bury		September 19, 2005	January 14, 2008	113	36	44	33	27.06

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Chris Casper career stats at Soccerbase
• Chris Casper management career stats at Soccerbase

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