Richard Hartis

Richard Hartis (born 16 September 1967) is an English coach and the current Goalkeeping Coach at Leeds United F.C. and the England under-18's. Hartis has never played professional football.[1]

Coaching Career

From 1987-1990 he was the youth goalkeeping coach at Sheffield United. He then proceeded to work at Mercyhurst College for 6 years, 3 years as head coach for the Men's and Women's teams from 1994-1997.

In 3 seasons under Hartis, the men's team made the NCAA Division II Final Four once and the Elite Eight once. During his tenure with the Women's program, they made the NCAA tournament 2 out of 3 years.[2]

Hartis then returned to England in 1997 to become Goalkeeping Coach at Leeds United Academy. He remained at Leeds until the summer of 2000 having worked with all academy ages including the reserves. He left Leeds to join former Leeds United Academy staff Alan Hill, Steve Beaglehole and Daral Pugh at Leicester City as Head Academy GK coach. Hartis remained at Leicester for only one season, before joining Manchester United as Head Academy GK Coach. Hartis also become Acting First Team Goalkeeping Coach during Manchester United's double run in 2007-08, working with goalkeepers Edwin Van Der Sar, Ben Foster, Tomasz Kuszczak and Tom Heaton. He spent 10 years at Manchester United before leaving.

In January 2011 he was appointed to first team goalkeeping coach at Norwegian Club Molde FK as part of the staff for Ole Gunnar Solskjær. He remained there at Molde for three years.

On 2 January 2014 Hartis was appointed First team Goalkeeping coach at Cardiff as part of Ole Gunnar Solskjær's Coaching team. He left Cardiff City along with Ole Gunnar Solskjær in September of 2014.

In November 2014, Hartis was also appointed as Goalkeeping Coach for the English Football Association, working with the England under-18's and U15 National Teams.

On 9 June 2015 he was unveiled as the new goalkeeping coach for Leeds United as part of Uwe Rosler's new backroom team.[3] Hartis also played a part in Leeds signing American Under 23's Goalkeeper Charlie Horton from former club Cardiff City also on 9 June 2015.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.moldefk.no/team1staff/article/302gl1h7rnie1j9s8zh4j1wop/title/richard-hartis
  2. ↑ http://www.hurstathletics.com/sports/2008/5/28/MSOC_0528081340.aspx?path=msoc
  3. ↑ "Richard Hartis to join Uwe Rosler's backroom staff at Elland Road.". Leeds United. 9 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "USA youth international Charlie Horton becomes the first signing of the summer.". Leeds United. 9 June 2015.
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