Peter Chandler

Infobox Football biography
playername= Peter Chandler
fullname = Peter Chandler
nickname =


dateofbirth =
cityofbirth = Duxbury, Massachusetts
countryofbirth = United States
height =
currentclub =
clubnumber =
position = Forward / Defender
youthyears =
youthclubs = Springfield College
years = 1975-1976
1977
1978
clubs = Hartford Bicentennials
Connecticut Bicentennials
Tampa Bay Rowdies
caps(goals) = 31 (0)
09 (0)
04 (0)
nationalyears = 1975
nationalteam = United States
nationalcaps(goals) = 03 (0)
manageryears =
managerclubs = Peak to Peak Charter School
pcupdate = 7 december 2006
ntupdate = 7 december 2006

Peter Chandler is a former U.S. soccer player who spent four seasons in the North American Soccer League. He also earned three caps with the U.S. national team in 1975.

College

Chandler attended Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts where he played as a forward on the men’s soccer team during the early 1970s. [ [http://www-tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_092/TECH_V092_S0444_P011.pdf MIT Soccer] ] He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physical education. He later attended the University of South Florida where he earned a master’s degree in physical education.

NASL

The expansion Hartford Bicentennials of the North American Soccer League signed Chandler for the 1975 season. While he was a forward in college, the Bicentennials moved Chandler to defense. After the 1976 season, the Bicentennials moved to New Haven, Connecticut and adopted the name, the Connecticut Bicentennials. Chandler played nine games of the 1977 season with Connecticut. The team moved again at the end of the season, this time to Oakland, California. However, Chandler did not remain with the team, but signed with the Tampa Bay Rowdies for the 1978 season. Some accounts state that he played with the Rowdies through 1981. If he did, he did not appear in any games with the team after the 1978 season.

In addition to his regular teams, Chandler was part of an NASL All Star team, called Team America, which competed with the national teams of Italy, Brazil and England in the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial Cup.

National team

Chandler played three games with the U.S. national team. All three came in the August 1974 Mexico City Cup. His first game was a 3-1 loss to Costa Rica on August 19, 1975. The team then lost to Argentina two days later and finished with a 2-0 loss to Mexico on August 24. [ [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesu/usa-intres-det70.html USA - Details of International Matches 1970-1979] ]

Coaching

After retiring from playing professional soccer, Chandler entered the educational career field. He has served as a high school physical education teacher, athletic director and soccer, basketball and baseball coach. He is currently the head coach of the boys’ soccer team and an assistant with the girls’ soccer team at Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette, Colorado. In 2005, he took his boys’ team to the 2005 Colorado Class 3A State championship. In 1989, Chandler and his wife had quintuplets. Four of those were girls who now play on the Peak to Peak Charter School soccer team. [ [http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007/may/04/prep-soccer-soccer-a-family-affair-4-of-chandler/ Soccer a Family Affair] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.conordoyle.net/p2p/about_p2p/coachbio.html Peak to Peak profile]