Dan Gaspar

Daniel "Dan" Gaspar (born August 27, 1955 in South Glastonbury, CT) is a Portuguese-American football and goalkeeping coach who was an assistant coach for Carlos Queiroz's Iran team. He is a long-time assistant and consultant to 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.

Dan Gaspar
Gaspar in 2014 with Iran
Personal information
Full name Daniel Gaspar
Date of birth (1955-08-27) August 27, 1955
Place of birth South Glastonbury, CT, United States
Teams managed
Years Team
1992–1993 Portugal U-16 (goalkeeping coach)
1992–1993 Portugal U-18 (goalkeeping coach)
1995 Sporting CP (goalkeeping coach)
1996 Nagoya Grampus (Assistant coach and goalkeeping coach)
1996 NY/NJ MetroStars (Assistant coach and goalkeeping coach)
1999 Central Connecticut (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)
2005–2010 Hartford (Men's Soccer coach)
2009–2010 Portugal (Technical staff and goalkeeping coach)
2011–2017 Iran (Assistant coach and goalkeeping coach)

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 2010. He resigned in March 2011.[1] 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. 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.[2]

On April 4, 2011, Gaspar became the assistant and goalkeeping coach for Iran's national team, alongside head coach Carlos Queiroz and assistant coach Omid Namazi. On June 18, 2013, Iran qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, before qualifying for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup months later.[3]

Head coaching record
Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Hartford Hawks (America East Conference) (2005–2010)
2005 Hartford 5-9-32-4-48th
2006 Hartford 4-8-52-68th
2007 Hartford 7-4-72-1-54th
2008 Hartford 7-8-33-4-15th
2009 Hartford 8-7-34-2-13rd
2010 Hartford 5-10-02-57th
Hartford: 36–46–21 (.451)15–22–11 (.427)
Total:36–46–21 (.451)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References
  1. "Dan Gaspar Steps Down as Hartford's Men's Soccer Coach". University of Hartford.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 25, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Asian Cup 2015 (Qs) MD5: Lebanon 1-4 Iran". AFC. November 20, 2013. Archived from the original on May 14, 2014.
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