Barry Whitbread was born on c 1949 and is an English former football player and coach who led the Singapore national football team to the country's first ever international trophy in football, the 1998 AFF Championship.
10 Facts About Barry Whitbread
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Barry Whitbread helped the club reach the 1982 FA Trophy final, in which he made his final appearance as a player, on the losing side.
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Barry Whitbread was a member of the first ever England team at semi-professional level.
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Barry Whitbread won six caps, scoring twice, between 1979 and 1981.
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Barry Whitbread trained as a teacher before moving into football management, having gained his coaching qualifications while still a player.
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Barry Whitbread was assistant manager of Northwich Victoria, then manager of Runcorn from 1988 to 1990, and coached in the United States.
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Barry Whitbread took the job as Singapore national football team coach in 1996.
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Two years later, his team written off before it started, Barry Whitbread led Singapore to victory in the 1998 Tiger Cup, their first ever success in an international football competition.
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Barry Whitbread went on to act as chief scout for clubs including Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers.
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Barry Whitbread's son Zak, born in Houston, Texas, while Whitbread was working in the US, became a professional footballer after developing in the Liverpool academy.