Dan Gaspar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dan Gaspar

Portuguese football manager

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1955

Place of Birth: South Glastonbury Historic District, Connecticut, United States

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Daniel "Dan" Gaspar (born August 27, 1955 in South Glastonbury, CT) is a Portuguese-American football and goalkeeping coach who is 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. 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.
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.