Chris Woods Sports manager

Christopher 'Chris' Charles Eric Woods (born 14 November 1959 in Swineshead, Lincolnshire) is a former England international football goalkeeper, who played in the Football League and Premier League for Nottingham Forest, Queens Park Rangers, Norwich City, Sheffield Wednesday, Reading, Southampton and Burnley, in the Scottish Football League for Rangers, and in Major League Soccer for the Colorado Rapids. He was working as the goalkeeping coach at Everton and United States. But, with the departure of David Moyes, he followed him to Manchester United to replace Eric Steele as the new goalkeeping coach.Woods was Peter Shilton's long-time understudy in the England team in the mid to late 1980s, finally claiming the number one shirt for himself in the early 1990s. In all, he managed to accrue 43 caps in an eight-year international career.

Personal facts

Chris Woods
Birth dateNovember 14, 1959
Birth place
England national football team , Swineshead Lincolnshire
Height (meters)1.88

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Football manager

club
Manchester United F.C.
Everton F.C.
United States men's national soccer team
position
Goalkeeper (association football)
teams
England national football team
Nottingham Forest F.C.
Reading F.C.
Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
Queens Park Rangers F.C.
Rangers F.C.
Southampton F.C.
Colorado Rapids
Norwich City F.C.
England national under-21 football team
England national football B team
Sunderland A.F.C.
Burnley F.C.

Chris Woods on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.ex-canaries.co.uk/players/woods.htm