# Chris Coleman > Welsh association football player and manager (born 1970) **Wikidata**: [Q381769](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381769) **Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Coleman_(footballer)) **Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/chris-coleman ## Summary Chris Coleman (Christopher Patrick Coleman; born 10 June 1970) is a Welsh association football player and manager from the United Kingdom who has also worked as a sports commentator. He is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and is widely catalogued across major reference and media databases. ## Biography - Born: 10 June 1970 - Nationality: United Kingdom - Education: (no education data provided in source) - Known for: Welsh association football player and manager; also a sports commentator - Employer(s) / affiliations: association football player; association football coach/manager; sports commentator (roles listed in source) - Field(s): association football; sports coaching; sports broadcasting ## Contributions The provided source material lists Chris Coleman’s professional roles rather than discrete published works, companies, patents, or products. Documented contributions in the source are: - Professional roles: served as an association football player, an association football coach/manager, and a sports commentator (dates, teams and specific outputs are not provided in the supplied material). - Public recognition: recipient of the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), recorded as an award in the source. No specific papers, books, founded companies, patents, software projects, or named coaching tenures are included in the provided data. ## FAQs - Q: Who is Chris Coleman? A: Chris Coleman (Christopher Patrick Coleman) is a Welsh association football player and manager from the United Kingdom who has also worked as a sports commentator. - Q: When was Chris Coleman born? A: He was born on 10 June 1970. - Q: What are Chris Coleman’s occupations? A: The source lists him as an association football player, an association football coach/manager, and a sports commentator. - Q: What honours has Chris Coleman received? A: The provided material records that he received the award Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). - Q: What is Chris Coleman’s recorded height? A: The source lists a height of 188.0 cm. - Q: Where can I find standard identifiers for Chris Coleman? A: The source includes multiple identifiers and database keys (listed in the Body section), including a Freebase ID and numerous property values used in reference databases. ## Why They Matter Chris Coleman is recorded in the provided sources as a multi-role figure in association football: a player, a manager/coach, and a sports commentator. That combination of roles positions him to influence the sport from on-field performance, team leadership, and public broadcasting perspectives. His recognition as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire marks formal public and national acknowledgement of his contributions. The multiple database identifiers and wide sitelink count in the source indicate persistent public and reference interest in his career across media and data repositories. ## Notable For - Full name recorded as Christopher Patrick Coleman. - Born 10 June 1970. - Occupations listed: association football player; association football coach/manager; sports commentator. - Award: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) as recorded in the source. - Height: 188.0 cm (as provided). - Widely catalogued in reference systems and media: many internal property identifiers and database keys appear in the source. - Wikimedia Commons image filename recorded: AUT vs. WAL 2016-10-06 (097).jpg. - Wikipedia title in source: "Chris Coleman (footballer)". - Short description in source: "Welsh association football player and manager (born 1970)". ## Body ### Identity and Names - Full name: Christopher Patrick Coleman (property P1477). - Common name / alias: Chris Coleman (property P1559; alias list includes "Chris Coleman"). - Instance: human (Wikidata instance_of Q5 as recorded). - Short descriptor from source: "Welsh association football player and manager (born 1970)" (wikidata_description). ### Vital statistics - Date of birth: 10 June 1970 (property P569). - Nationality / citizenship: United Kingdom (property Q145). - Height: 188.0 cm (property P2048). ### Occupation and fields - Occupations recorded (codes in source): association football player (occupation Q937857), association football coach/manager (occupation Q628099 / manager role Q136659823 referenced in related list), and sports commentator (occupation Q2986228). - Fields of activity: association football, sports coaching, and sports broadcasting (explicitly reflected by occupations and related descriptors in the provided material). ### Awards and recognition - Award recorded: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (property award_received Q10762848; also listed under Awards / Recognition in the source). ### Media and public records - Wikimedia Commons image: AUT vs. WAL 2016-10-06 (097).jpg (property P18). - Wikimedia Commons category: "Chris Coleman (footballer)" (property P373). - Wikipedia page title provided in the source: "Chris Coleman (footballer)". - Sitelink count: 38 (as listed in structured properties). ### Identifiers and database keys (as provided) The source lists numerous structured property values and identifiers associated with Chris Coleman. These are presented verbatim from the provided material: - Freebase /m/025vgb (property P646). - P1285: 01000009437 - P1617: 6e97a67c-ca6a-4482-9570-0b41aa30c086 - P2020: chris-coleman - P2193: 1545 - P2276: 6247 - P2446: 132125 - P2447: 451 - P2574: 19882 - P3047: 53001 - P3537: 2563 - P3655: 7366 - P3726: 3745 - P5297: x9rLay1ycfARbAk3yBJLtH4PX-E - P5421: 153609 - P5750: 811de5ec - P8912: chris-coleman - P9995: 345491 - P12539: 152 - P12551: 995 - P12567: 979 - P12606: 3777 - P12608: 1579 (These identifiers and numeric property values are included exactly as presented in the source material; the source does not provide explicit human-readable labels for each numeric property code.) ### Public/profile metadata - Wikidata label/slug: "chris-coleman" (property P2020 and P8912 both reference this form). - Other metadata: the source lists a UUID and multiple numeric codes that correspond to entries in reference or archival systems (see Identifiers above). ### Coverage and cataloguing - The source shows Chris Coleman is represented in many external systems and internal properties, indicating broad cataloguing: sitelink_count 38 and multiple database keys are present. - The presence of a Commons image file (AUT vs. WAL 2016-10-06 (097).jpg) indicates photographic coverage in public media archives. ### Gaps in the provided record - The supplied material does not include specific club affiliations, managerial tenures, match statistics, publication titles, books, founded organizations, patents, or dates of employment. No educational institutions or degrees are listed. No narrative biographical details (place of birth, youth clubs, career chronology) are present in the provided data. ### Summary of sourced facts only - Christopher Patrick Coleman, born 10 June 1970, is a human (instance_of Q5) with United Kingdom citizenship. He is recorded as an association football player, association football coach/manager, and sports commentator. He has been awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire. His height is given as 188.0 cm. Multiple database identifiers and properties accompany his records across reference systems. ## References 1. Transfermarkt 2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013 3. BBC Things 4. [Source](https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/clubs/players/6247/)