Anwar Uddin
Uddin in April 2007
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| Full name | Anwar Uddin | |||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 1 November 1981 | |||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Stepney, England | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | |||||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Ware (Manager) | |||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||
| ?–2001 | West Ham United | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | West Ham United | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Sheffield Wednesday | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Bristol Rovers | 19 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | → Hereford United (loan) | 9 | (2) | |||||||||||||||
| 2004 | → Telford United (loan) | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2004–2010 | Dagenham & Redbridge | 188 | (6) | |||||||||||||||
| 2009 | → Grays Athletic (loan) | 11 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Barnet | 39 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Sutton United | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Eastbourne Borough | 29 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 314 | (11) | ||||||||||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Barnet (assistant manager) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Maldon & Tiptree (assistant manager) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Sporting Bengal United | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Ware | |||||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Anwar Uddin (Bengali: আনোয়ার উদ্দিন; born 1 November 1981) is an English retired footballer who is currently the manager of Ware having started his reign at the beginning of 2017 with a 5-0 away win at Great Wakering Rovers FC.
During a career which began at West Ham United in 2001 and concluded with a season at Eastbourne Borough from 2012 to 2013, Uddin notably represented several Football League clubs including Dagenham & Redbridge and Barnet. He was the first person of Bangladeshi origin to play professional football in England, and, while at Dagenham & Redbridge, became the first British Asian to captain a football club in the top four divisions of English football. He Won Two promotions with Dagenham & Redbridge which placed them in League 1, the highest position in the clubs history and was a FA Youth Cup Winner with West Ham United Beating Coventry 9-0 in the final over two legs. Anwar also Works for The Football Supporters' Federation in partnership with Kick It Out leading on the Fans for Diversity Campaign.
Uddin was born and brought up in Stepney, London to a Bangladeshi father and an English mother. He attended Raine's Foundation School in Bethnal Green. His father came to the United Kingdom in the 1960s. Uddin has three sisters and two brothers.
Uddin was the first person of Bangladeshi origin to play professional football in England and the first British Asian to captain a football club in the top four divisions of English football. He began his football career at West Ham United, working his way up through their youth and reserve teams where he was captain. He was in West Ham's victorious 1999 FA Youth Cup winning squad that defeated Coventry City. Although highly regarded, as a bright talented traditional English defender, he was never able to break through into the first team and in February 2002 moved to Sheffield Wednesday on a free transfer.
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