Kevin Kewley (born 2 March 1955) is an English former professional football player and coach. Active in England and the United States, he played as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

and made over 450 career appearances, scoring over 120 goals. After retiring as a player he was active as a coach at both professional and college-level.

Playing career

Born in

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...

, Kewley signed for

in 1970, turning professional in March 1972. He made one first-team appearance for Liverpool, appearing as a substitute in January 1978. He spent loan spells in the United States with the Dallas Tornado in the 1976 and 1977 seasons, later signing permanently with them. He later played for the

Wichita Wings The Wichita Wings were a professional indoor soccer franchise based in Wichita, Kansas. The Wings were admitted to the Major Indoor Soccer League as an expansion team on August 21, 1979.

Coaching career

After coaching the

, Kewley later also coached

Pratt Community College Pratt Community College is a public community college in Pratt, Kansas, United States. Athletics The official mascot for Pratt Community College is the Beaver. Pratt CC participates in 11 sports in the NJCAA and in the Kansas Jayhawk Community ...

and

Barton Community College Barton Community College, previously Barton County Community College, is a public community college in Great Bend, Kansas. Its service area includes Barton, Ellsworth, Pawnee, Rush and Russell Counties, Stafford County north of US Highway 5 ...

. He was the 2015 KJCCC 'Coach of the Year'.

References

1955 births Living people English footballers English football managers Liverpool F.C. players Dallas Tornado players Wichita Wings (MISL) players English Football League players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) players Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) coaches National Professional Soccer League (1984–2001) coaches USISL coaches Association football midfielders English expatriate footballers English expatriate football managers English expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate soccer players in the United States Expatriate soccer managers in the United States {{England-footy-midfielder-1950s-stub