Christopher Roland Waddle Net Worth is $18 Million
Christopher Roland Waddle Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Christopher Roland "Chris" Waddle (born 14 December 1960 in Felling, Tyne and Wear) is an English former professional footballer, manager and current Football commentator and pundit. He still plays at semi-professional level for Northern Counties East League side Hallam, as well as being contracted to ESPN as part of their commentary team.During his professional career that lasted from 1978 to 1998, he played for clubs including Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield Wednesday in England, and Olympique de Marseille in France. Waddle earned 62 caps for the England national football team between 1985 and 1991, and was a member of England's squads for the 1986 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 1988, and the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He famously missed the decisive penalty in England's World Cup 1990 semi-final shootout defeat against West Germany. Having left Sheffield Wednesday and the Premier League in 1996, he had a brief stint with Scottish Premier League side Falkirk. He returned to England with Football League sides Bradford City and Sunderland. In 1997 he became player/manager of Burnley but having failed to gain promotion from Division Two, he quit and joined Division Three side Torquay United as a full-time player. His time at United didn't last very long and he decided to retire from professional football. In 2000 he came out of retirement by signing for semi-professional side Worksop Town of the Northern Premier League, where he remained for two years and also helped out on the club's coaching side. Having left Worksop in 2002, he moved further on down the football ladder by having brief stints with both Glapwell and Stocksbridge Park Steels before officially hanging his boots up in 2002.Despite spending the 1997–98 season as a manager Waddle never returned to the coaching side of the game following his retirement and became a TV football pundit, commentator and sports newspaper writer. He previously worked for Setanta Sports and currently works as a co-commentator for ESPN's Premier League football coverage, and for BBC 5 Live. In 2013 after playing amateur football in the Sheffield area he came out of retirement for a second time by signing for Hallam at the age of 52.
I was completely left-footed until I was about 23. It's then that I started playing on the right-hand side and people knew I'd cut onto my left so I worked on my right in the gym. Twenty minutes a day for a couple of months is all it takes for a professional to improve his weaker foot. It makes me laugh that England are crying out for a left-footed player and the guys trying to get that role can't just practice for 20 minutes a day on their left.
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I think that the coaching system at grassroots needs to be revamped. At 13 or 14, I think it should be all ball work and technique, but it's not, it's about power, size and winning. We used to produce players like Barnes (John Barnes), Gascoigne (Paul Gascoigne) and Hoddle (Glenn Hoddle), but now we have to import them. I think if the laws were changed - if it was easier for players to get into coaching without having to get all these badges - I would definitely get involved.
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We're desperately short of players who can run with the ball and create and until we start producing that type of player again we'll remain a quarter-final team. Capello can't make somebody dribble past three players and create things if they aren't capable of doing it. The best teams have creative players that can provide a bit of magic; an Henry (Thierry Henry) or Zidane (Zinédine Zidane).
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It's an eye-opener. You think it's a game of football, like it is back home, but it's not. When Marseille got the ball, we played patient football, it was about possession, it was like a waltz. English football is based on the Charleston. The Premier League has always been a basketball league - you attack then they attack - but other leagues don't play like that. International football is about keeping the ball. My three years in Marseille taught me so much about football, which I would never have learnt in England.
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When I signed for Marseille, someone asked me if I was going to learn French. 'I wouldn't' they said, 'I'd make them speak English'. And that sums us up. We don't want to learn anything. We don't want to copy. Gary Lineker learnt to do it. Bobby Robson learnt more by going abroad. Steve McClaren will come back to England and he'll know so much more.
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I love entertaining people, being a showman. I loved the atmosphere on the terraces when I set off on a dribble.
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I know I can't go on forever - I'll probably stop when I reach 50 - but I love playing football. It's as simple as that.
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We have got to wake up in this country and realize that we are not a great team. We coach too much at a young age and we take the skill away from our youngsters.
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All fans want to see their teams win, but they love it even more when they're entertained as well. I like the thought of someone leaving the ground and going into work or the schoolyard on Monday morning and saying 'Hey, you should have seen what Waddle did to this full-back'. People always remember Johan Cruyff's back-heel flick far more than any goal he ever scored. That's what football's about. Giving people something to smile about.
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I'm not saying that just because you're a great player you'll be a great manager but people like John Barnes have a knowledge of the game you'll never find in any coaching book.
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It makes me laugh when I see people trying to coach kids. You cannot coach seven-year-olds. I was never coached and I bet John Barnes was never coached, or Peter Beardsley, or Paul Gascoigne.
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[on taking penalties] I was always happier scoring from 20 yards.
Has two children: Brooke (born June 1988) and Jack (December 1993).
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Collaborated with fellow England midfielder Glenn Hoddle on the single "Diamond Lights", which reached 12 in the UK pop charts in 1987.
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Unfortunately, he is remembered for being the player who missed the penalty in the semi-final shootout against West Germany that knocked England out of the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
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His position was winger.
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Former footballer who played 62 matches for England and scored six goals.
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Competed in the 1986 and 1990 FIFA World Cups.
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
World Cup 98
1998
Video Game voice talent: Electronic Arts Canada Team
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Final Score
2016
TV Series
Himself - Commentator
Match of the Day: Euro 2016
2016
TV Mini-Series
Himself - Analyst / Himself - Red Button Commentator / Himself
That Game: England v Germany 1990
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Timeshift
2003
TV Series documentary
Himself
Gillette Soccer Saturday
2000
TV Series
Himself - Expert Analysis (2000-2001)
Kicking & Screaming
1995
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Ball Is Round
1994
TV Movie documentary
Italia '90: England - World Cup Heroes
1993
Video
Himself
Top of the Pops
1987
TV Series
Himself
FA Cup Final 1987: Coventry City v Tottenham Hotspur
1987
Video documentary
Himself
Football World Cup
1954
TV Series
Himself - Commentator (voice)
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Hand of God: 30 Years On
2016
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Greatest Footie Ads Ever
2012
TV Movie
Himself
England's Worst Ever Football Team
2010
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Favouritism
2005
TV Series
Himself
Good Bye Lenin!
2003
Himself (uncredited)
Manchester United: The Official History 1878-2002
2002
Video documentary
Himself (1993 Man Utd v Sheffield Wednesday)
The Story of Football
2002
Video documentary
Himself - 1990 World Cup
Room 101
1999
TV Series
Himself
World Cup: England's World Cup Heroes and Villains!
1998
Video uncredited
Match of the Eighties
1997
TV Series
Himself
The World's Greatest Goals: Volume II
1990
Video documentary
Himself
Known for movies
Gillette Soccer Saturday (2000) as Himself - Expert Analysis (2000-2001)
FA Cup Final 1987: Coventry City v Tottenham Hotspur (1987) as Himself
That Game: England v Germany 1990 (2004) as Himself
Football World Cup (1954) as Himself - Commentator
$18 Million
