Vince Bartram

Football player infobox
playername = Vince Bartram


fullname = Vincent Lee Bartram
nickname =
height = height|ft=6|in=2
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1968|8|7
cityofbirth = Birmingham
countryofbirth = England
position = Goalkeeper
youthyears =
1985–1986
youthclubs = Oldswinford FC
Wolverhampton Wanderers
years = 1986–1991
1989
1990
1991
1991–1994
1994–1998
1997
1998–2004
clubs = Wolverhampton Wanderers
→ Blackpool (loan)
→ Cheltenham Town (loan)
→ West Bromwich Albion (loan)
Bournemouth
Arsenal
→ Huddersfield Town (loan)
Gillingham
caps(goals) = 005 00(0)
009 00(0)
005 00(0)
000 00(0)
132 00(0)
011 00(0)
012 00(0)
187 00(0)

Vincent Lee Bartram (born 7 August 1968 in Birmingham) is an English former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.

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 and works as a goalkeeping coach in Bournemouth, coaching goalkeepers of all ages. He also works as a coach for the AFC Bournemouth Centre of Excellence.Fact|date=September 2007

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