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Mark Harrison
Personal information
Full name Mark Simon Harrison[1]
Date of birth (1960-12-11) 11 December 1960 (age 63)[1]
Place of birth Derby, England[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 CAPS United (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1977–1979 Southampton 0 (0)
1979–1982 Port Vale 70 (0)
1981 → Stoke City (loan) 0 (0)
1982–1984 Stoke City[2] 7 (0)
1984–1985 Hellenic 44 (0)
1985–1987 Kettering Town 42 (0)
1987–1988 Stafford Rangers 50 (0)
1988–1989 Telford United 12 (0)
1989–1989 Hellenic 8 (0)
Total 233 (0)
Managerial career
1994–1995 Stafford Rangers
2000–2001 Bangladesh
2001–2002 Fortune
2002–2003 Hurriya
2010–2011 Mpumalanga Black Aces
2011–2012 African Warriors
2012–2013 Bay Stars
2013 Chippa United
2013–2014 Golden Arrows
2015 CAPS United
2015– Township Rollers
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mark Simon Harrison (born 11 December 1960) is an English former footballer who manages Township Rollers in the Botswana Premier League. He kept goal in the Football League for Port Vale and Stoke City. From 2000 he began coaching clubs and nations in Africa.

Playing career

Harrison was a trainee with Southampton,[3] before joining John McGrath's Fourth Division side Port Vale in February 1980.[1] He was immediately the first choice keeper for the "Valiants", however was troubled by cartilage problems from November 1980.[1] In the summer of 1981 he was loaned to rivals Stoke City as they played a youth tournament.[1] After returning to Vale Park he was an ever-present for the 46 game 1981–82 season.[1] He was sold to City, along with Mark Chamberlain, for a combined fee of £180,000 in August 1982.[1] He left Victoria Ground in 1984 due to long term injury problems.

After he left the "Potters", he not only left Stoke-on-Trent but England as well, as he switched to South African side Hellenic. He later returned to England to play non-league football with Kettering Town, Stafford Rangers and Telford United.[1] Harrison returned to South Africa to play for Hellenic one more time.

Management career

Upon his retirement, he managed Clyde. He once more returned to England and became the youth coach of Bristol City, then goalkeeper coach of Everton, before becoming coach and assistant manager of Barrow, later player-manager of Stafford Rangers and then the reserve coach and assistant manager of Oxford United in the Championship. Harrison gained his UEFA A licence at the young age of 33.

He later had a spell as coach of the Bangladesh national football team.[3]

Harrison then went on to manage Fortune in the South African NFD and later Hurriya in the Maldives.

Harrison was employed to assist Mpumalanga Black Aces in the South African Premier Soccer League in 2011. He was promoted to head coach for the remainder of the 2010–11 season, but departed the club at the end of the campaign. He went on to coach African Warriors in the National First Division.

Harrison took up the job as head coach of Bay Stars, in South Africa's third tier, the SAFA Second Division for the 2012-13 season. However, he left during the season to join Chippa United.[4]

Harrison was appointed head coach of Chippa United in April 2013[5] but despite not losing a game, was unable to prevent the team from being relegated at the end of the 2012–13 season.[6] He resigned from his position after four games in 2013–14 season and became head coach of Golden Arrows on 7 October 2013.[7] In January 2015 he was appointed head coach of Zimbabwean club CAPS United.[8] Harrison resigned on 16 June 2015.[9] On the same day, he was announced as the head coach of Botswana Premier League side Township Rollers.

Career statistics

Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Port Vale 1980–81 Fourth Division 24 0 1 0 0 0 25 0
1981–82 Fourth Division 46 0 5 0 4 0 55 0
Total 70 0 6 0 4 0 80 0
Stoke City 1982–83 First Division 7 0 0 0 1 0 8 0
Total 7 0 0 0 1 0 8 0
Career Total 77 0 6 0 5 0 88 0

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 129. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
  2. ^ Stats at Neil Brown stat site
  3. ^ a b Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (2003). In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. Hagiology Publishing. p. 613. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.
  4. ^ "Stars hunt for coach after Harrison moves to Chilli Boys". The Hearld. 16 April 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Chippa Appoint Harrison". Soccer Laduma. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  6. ^ "Chippa relegated to NFD". Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  7. ^ "Harrison named new coach of Arrows". SuperSport. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  8. ^ "Zvirekwi predicts CAPS bright future". SuperSport. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  9. ^ "Harrison quits Caps Utd". NewsDay. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
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