Gary Peters (soccer player)

Gary Peters
Personnel
Surname	Gary David Peters
birthday	3rd August 1954
place of birth	Carshalton ,  England
size	183 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
1972-1975	FC Aldershot
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1975-1979	Reading FC	156 (7)
1979-1982	Fulham FC	64 (2)
1982-1984	Wimbledon FC	83 (7)
1984-1985	FC Aldershot	17 (1)
1985-1988	Reading FC	100 (4)
1988-1990	Fulham FC	11 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Fulham FC (assistant coach)
	Cambridge United (Assistant Coach)
	Preston North End (Assistant Coach)
1994-1998	Preston North End
2003	Exeter City
2004-2008	Shrewsbury Town
2011–2012	Hereford United (Technical Director)
1 Only league games are given.

Gary David Peters (born August 3, 1954 in Carshalton , London ) is a former English football player and current coach . Most recently, he was Technical Director at Hereford United .

Player career

From the youth division of Aldershot, Gary Peters went to Reading FC in 1975 . There he stayed until 1979 and played over 150 games in the third and fourth leagues. Then he moved to the second division club Fulham . In his first season, however, he rose again with the team in the third division. In his last season for Fulham, Peters managed to get promoted again with his team. For the 1982/83 season, the defender went to FC Wimbledon , with whom he rose from the fourth to the second division in the following two years. Again he moved after a promotion and went back to his youth club Aldershot. After a season, Peters went back to Reading. By 1988 he completed another 100 league games for the Royal and rose once to the second division and then relegated to the third division. He also coached a Reading youth team. The defender spent the last two years of his playing career again at FC Fulham, which shortly before had almost gone bankrupt.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, Gary Peters started as an assistant coach at Fulham, Cambridge United and Preston North End . When the coach John Beck was fired in 1994, Peteres got the post as head coach. With Preston he rose to the third division in 1996 and his team showed attractive football. He was able to sign well-known players such as the then 20-year-old David Beckham on loan or Jon Macken , who was later sold for a record fee of 5 million pounds. In early 1998, Preston North End stagnated and Peters was replaced as coach by David Moyes . A month later, however, he returned to the club and was henceforth active in the development of the youth sector. After some time, however, only a few talents followed and Peters was finally dismissed in the course of cost-cutting measures. Only a short time later, he was the coach of the fourth division Exeter City . Even if his team lost only 3 of their last 13 games, Exeter was relegated at the end of the season. Exeter was in dire financial straits and had no means to sign new players. Peters therefore went to Everton FC as a scout . In November 2004 he then took over the coaching position at the fourth division club Shrewsbury Town . On March 8, 2008, he was released there after the team had brought only 6 points from 12 games in the current season.

Web links

• Gary Peters in the database of transfermarkt.de