Stephen Hart (soccer)

Stephen Hart

Hart in June 2012
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Simon Hart
Date of birth	(1960-03-15) 15 March 1960
Place of birth	San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies Federation
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Trinidad and Tobago (head coach)
Youth career
	Hurricane FC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Texaco
	San Fernando Strikers
	Saint Mary's Huskies
	Halifax King of Donair
International career
1980	Trinidad and Tobago	7	(0)
Managerial career
1988–1989	Halifax King of Donair (player-coach)
1993–2001	Halifax King of Donair
1997–1999	Saint Mary's Huskies women
2000	Soccer Nova Scotia (technical director)
2004	Canada U-17
2005–2007	Canada (assistant manager)
2006	Canada U-17
2007	Canada (interim)
2008	Canada (technical director)
2008–2009	Canada U-20
2009–2012	Canada
2013–	Trinidad and Tobago
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stephen Hart (born 15 March 1960) is a former Trinidadian footballer. As of 2015, he is the head coach of Trinidad and Tobago.

Career

Hart played in his native Trinidad and Tobago for Texaco in the Trinidad and Tobago Professional Football League before turning out for the San Fernando Strikers. He moved to Canada to attend Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and starred for the school's soccer team, known as the Huskies, and local amateur side Halifax King of Donair. In 1980, he was selected to the Trinidad and Tobago national team.

Hart was technical director of Soccer Nova Scotia from 1993 to 2001 and coached Halifax King of Donair in 2000, having previously acted as their player-coach in 1988 and 1989. He has coached Canada at U-17 and U-20 levels and previously acted as assistant coach to the Canada men's senior team. In 2007, he stepped in as the senior team's interim coach and led Canada to a semi-final spot in the CONCACAF Gold Cup but was replaced by Dale Mitchell ahead of World Cup 2010 qualifying.

On 18 April 2009, Hart was named as interim head coach of the Canadian men's national team for the second time following the release of Mitchell. On 7 December 2009, he was named the full-time head coach of the senior men's national team for the first time, a position he held until two days after an 8-1 defeat in Honduras as part of the 2014 World Cup qualification process. From 2006 to 2012, he posted an international record of 20 wins, 10 draws and 15 losses for Canada.

On 18 June 2013 he was confirmed by the TTFA as the new football coach of the Trinidad and Tobago national football team.

Personal life

Hart is a long-time Halifax resident where he lives with his wife Lynn who was born in Nova Scotia and three daughters, Eilish, Keva and Yara Hart.

Managerial statistics

As of 20 November 2013

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %
Canada	6 September 2006	21 June 2007	10	5	1	4	50.00
Canada	30 May 2009	18 October 2012	35	15	9	11	42.86
Trinidad and Tobago	18 June 2013	Present	19	9	6	4	47.37
Total			64	29	16	19	45.31