Dan Gaspar

Dan Gaspar

Personal information
Full name	Daniel Gaspar
Date of birth	27 August 1955 (1955-08-27) (age 56)
Place of birth	South Glastonbury, CT, United States
Teams managed
Years	Team
1992-1993	Portugal national under-16 football team (goalkeeping coach)
1992-1993	Portugal national under-18 football team (goalkeeping coach)
1995	Sporting CP (goalkeeping coach)
1996	Nagoya Grampus (Assistant coach and goalkeeping coach)
1996–1997	NY/NJ MetroStars (Assistant coach and goalkeeping coach)
1999	Central Connecticut State University (Associate head coach)
2001	South Africa (goalkeeping technical consultant)
2000-2002	Connecticut Wolves (Men's Soccer coach)
2002-2003	Portugal (goalkeeping coach)
2003–2004	S.L. Benfica (goalkeeping coach)
2004-2005	F.C. Porto (goalkeeping coach)
2009–2010	Portugal (Technical staff and goalkeeping coach)
2005-2011	University of Hartford (Men's Soccer coach)
2011–	Iran (Assistant coach and goalkeeping coach)

Daniel "Dan" Gaspar (born August 27, 1955 in South Glastonbury, CT) is a Portuguese American Football and goalkeeping Coach who is currently an assistant coach for the Iranian men's national football team. He is a long-time assistant and consultant to Carlos Queiroz with whom he co-authored Project 2010 for the USSF in 1998, with the goal to create a blueprint for long-term improvements in US soccer.

Gaspar worked as a technical assistant and also a goalkeeping assistant coach for the Portuguese men's and youth national football teams and for the South African men's national team. He also worked as the goalkeeping coach for Sporting CP, S.L. Benfica and F.C. Porto in Portugal, and he was the assistant coach of J League Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan.

Gaspar was the head coach of University of Hartford men's soccer team between 2005 and 2011. He played as a goalkeeper when he was a business management college student at the University of Hartford. He was also the associate head coach of Central Connecticut State University men's soccer team.

Gaspar was the head coach of A-League Connecticut Wolves, the assistant coach of the NY/NJ MetroStars and he was also the associate head coach of Central Connecticut State University men's team. He also founded the Star Goalkeeper Academy in 1995, and he took over the Connecticut Soccer School in 2004 with the aim of bringing his international coaching expertise to the youth level.

International Career

Gaspar pursued his passion for goalkeeping as a club and national team goalkeeping coach in Portugal. He coached Vítor Baía at F.C. Porto, Hans Vonk with the South African men's national football team in 2001, Ricardo Pereira with the Portuguese men's national football team in 2003, and Eduardo Carvalho during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Upon his return from Portugal Gaspar coached Tony Meola at the NY/NJ MetroStars.

Since 1993, Gaspar has worked with Carlos Queiroz as a goalkeeping coach, technical adviser, and assistant coach for several club and national team coaching assignments. These included the Portuguese men's national team in 1994, and from 2009 to 2010, the Portuguese U16 and U18 men's and women's youth teams from 1992 to 1993, and the South African men's national football team in 2001, as well as Sporting CP, J League Nagoya Grampus Eight, and the NY/NJ MetroStars. In 2003 Gaspar worked with Luiz Felipe Scolari as the goalkeeping coach for the Portuguese men's national football team and also with José Antonio Camacho as the goalkeeping coach at S.L. Benfica, between 2003 and 2004.

On April 4, 2011, Gaspar became the assistant coach and the goalkeeper for the Iranian men's national football team.

References

• OSATv TouchLine With Dan Gaspar
• University of Hartford Athletics
• Dan Gaspar Resume
• FPF Announcement
• NY Times Article
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Name	Gaspar, Dan
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Date of birth	August 27, 1955
Place of birth	South Glastonbury, CT, United States
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