Christopher Gerald Bart-Williams, an English football coach and professional player who played as a defender and midfielder, most notably in the Premier League for Sheffield Wednesday, Nottingham Forest and Charlton Athletic died on 24 July 2023 at the age of 49.
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Born on 16 June 1974 in Freetown-Sierra Leone, Bart-Williams grew up in North London and attended The School of St. David’s and St Katharine’s in Hornsey.
He began his professional career at the age of 16 with Leyton Orient and scored on his debut, a 4–0 win against Tranmere Rovers on 2 February 1991. Bart-Williams made a total of 36 league appearances with the club and scored twice before joining Sheffield Wednesday for a then-record sum of £275,000 in 1991.
Bart-Williams had a great spell at Sheffield Wednesday, as he was part of the team that reached the Football League Cup semi-finals in the 1993–94 season. He also appeared in their short-lived UEFA Cup campaign (the club’s first European run since the 1960s) the previous season.
In 1995, Bart-Williams moved to Nottingham Forest for the sum of £2.5 million and had a successful spell. Though he played as a defensive midfielder he managed to score 35 goals, even being the club’s top scorer in the 2000–2001 season, and was often clinical from free kicks and penalties.
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He later played for Charlton Athletic, Ipswich Town, APOEL, and Marsaxlokk.
After retiring from football, Bart-Williams coached in the United States alongside Tony DiCicco, the former head coach of the United States women’s national soccer team.
Bart-Williams worked as an assistant for the WPSL’s Boston Breakers. He was an assistant coach for the Quinnipiac University men’s soccer team, where he helped guide them to the MAAC championship and the first round of the NCAA tournament in 2013. He also spent six years as an assistant coach for the Quinnipiac University men’s soccer team.
CBW Soccer Elite, which Bart-Williams ran, was an international soccer training and college recruiting organization that placed excellent student-athletes in American collegiate soccer programs.
In addition, he was also a consultant to Charlotte Soccer Academy’s U.S. Soccer Development Academy program and was the head of Gulliver Schools’ boys’ soccer program in Miami, Florida.
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