OH, DANNY BOY.

Danny Cadamarteri's name turned up in a national paper today and after I had put aside the thought that he might have been a rugby player, I read the article and thought, well there is a message here. Born in 1979 in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire he became an Everton 1st team player in 1996 at the ripe age of 17, scoring against Liverpool in the Merseyside derby.
THIS LINK SHOWS HIS GOAL-some memorable names on show here.
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/derby-day-flashes-pan-stars-who-picked-their-rare-moment-carefully

His career should have mirrored Michael Owen's. He stayed until 2002 at Goodison with limited success scoring 13 goals in 92 appearances. Whilst at Everton, he went on loan briefly to Fulham. His stay there was not a great success and indeed he was found guilty of an assault offence in 2001 for which he was fined. Danny then went to Bradford City where he was made to do community service because he had be found to "pervert the course of justice" during his previous "case". He then bounced around with Bradford City, Leeds, Sheffield United and Bradford City again during the next 4 seasons and then incurred a six months drug ban (blamed on "DayNurse"). While all this was going on Michael Owen was being named European Player of the Year!

Non-league Grays Athletic on the northern Thames estuary was his next port of call for one game! and then Leicester City and Doncaster Rovers on loan until 2007.

He made his way "home" to Huddersfield Town in 2012, nipped to Dundee United, back to Huddersfield and finally ground to a halt at Carlisle in 2014, having totalled 349 apps scoring 37 goals. He also had a few games for the England U18 and U23 side and he eventually packed up due to a knee injury.

Coaching was his next avenue and he worked with the Leeds Ladies, then at Sheffield Wednesday and with an UEFA A under his belt, he in now at the Burnley Academy as the U18 development Phase Coach. here he has established himself in one of the forward looking academies and is very froward in encouraging local ethnic minorities  to get included.

In his early stages of coaching he plied his trade with the Howden Clough Under 14s, a team that my little team from Hepworth are likely to meet this season in the Huddersfield and District Junior League. Danny talked about his first session with the team, when he aimed to set his coaching session around 20 balls, bibs and cones. In the end 5 lads turned up, he had 2 balls, one bib and one cone. Welcome to the real world.

He realised that what ever you achieve as a coach, the key is to make players better, make them better people (not like him originally) and to promote good ethics, discipline and hard work.
Let's hope that this ethic stretches to Danny's 6 year old son Caelan-Kole who scored 6 goals for Sheffield Wednesday U7s v Liverpool at the Kirkby training facility recently.

This is the £10.6 million Burnley FC Academy