Playing position Role Coach Years Team Height 1.65 m | ?–1991 Southern Blues Position Midfielder Name Carlton Chapman Manages Bhawanipore F.C. | |
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Full name Carlton Anthony Chapman Date of birth (1971-04-13) 13 April 1971 (age 44) Place of birth Bangalore, Karnataka State, India | ||
Carlton chapman on wahingdoh s future plans
Carlton Chapman (born 13 April 1971) is an Indian football coach and a former player who captained of the Indian national team. As a midfielder, he played for India between 1995 and 2001, when he announced his retirement. At the club level, he had a successful career, having had two spells with East Bengal and one with JCT Mills.
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- Carlton chapman on wahingdoh s future plans
- Sudeva mr carlton chapman interview
- Playing career
- 20022013
- 2013present
- References
As a coach, he had a 6-year spell with I-League 2nd Division club Tata Football Academy from 2002 to 2008, followed by Royal Wahingdoh FC and Students Union of the Bangalore Super Division. He is currently the head coach of Sudeva FC, a Delhi based I-League 2nd Division football club and residential Academy .
Sudeva mr carlton chapman interview
Playing career
Chapman began his club career with Sai Centre, Bangalore in the mid-1980s. He then played for Southern Blues, a Bangalore club, and Tata Football Academy, Jamshedpur, before signing for East Bengal in 1993. He had a fruitful two years at Bengal until signed by JCT Mills in 1995. In 1993, his first season with Bengal, he scored a hat-trick against the Iraqi club Al-Zawra at the Asian Cup Winners' Cup, a match that Bengal won 6–2.
During his spell at JCT Mills, the team won 14 tournaments, with a team that had I. M. Vijayan and Baichung Bhutia, both of who are regarded as India's all-time greats. After one season with FC Kochi in 1997–98, Chapman returned to his former club East Bengal in 1998. The team won the National Football League under his captaincy in 2001, before he announced his retirement from professional football.
In the Santosh Trophy, Chapman played for Karnataka, Punjab and West Bengal.
2002–2013
Following his retirement from playing, Chapman coached the Tata Football Academy team, then in I-League 2nd Division, from 2002 to 2008. He quit in 2008, after the team was not allowed to play in the first division by its management even after having qualified. During these years, he had stints with the Indian under-19 team as an assistant coach and with the Jharkhand under-19 team in 2003 and 2005. Following his departure from Tata Football Football Academy, he had a stint with a New Delhi club, Royal Rangers, in 2008. He was then approached by Royal Wahingdoh, a club based in Shillong. He guided the team to three successive Shillong Premier League wins and the Bordoloi Trophy win in 2011.
2013–present
In 2013, he was signed by Bhawanipore FC, a Kolkata based club, that plays in the I-League 2nd Division, after having missed qualifying to the first division by a point in the 2013 season.