Richard Sbragia was born on 26 May 1956 and is a Scottish football coach and former player.
21 Facts About Ricky Sbragia
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Ricky Sbragia's playing career, mainly in the English lower leagues began at Birmingham City, Walsall, Blackpool, York City and a loan spell at Darlington.
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Ricky Sbragia had a brief spell in his homeland with a loan spell at Morton during his spell at Birmingham.
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Ricky Sbragia has an extensive coaching career, having had spells at Manchester United, Bolton and Sunderland, where he had a brief spell as manager.
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Ricky Sbragia followed this by joining the Scottish Football Association, having head coach roles at Scotland U17, Scotland U19 and Scotland U21 teams.
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Ricky Sbragia was born in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire and is of Italian descent.
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Ricky Sbragia was raised in the Castlemilk housing scheme in Glasgow, and attended Grange Secondary School and played in youth teams with Jimmy Calderwood who became a footballer and later a manager.
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Ricky Sbragia scored York's equaliser against Liverpool in the FA Cup fifth round on 20 February 1985, which set up a lucrative replay at Anfield.
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Ricky Sbragia suffered from a back injury during this match and had surgery on a spinal disc herniation.
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Ricky Sbragia joined Darlington on loan in August 1985 and made six appearances for the team.
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Ricky Sbragia retired from playing in 1987 and commenced his coaching career with York as youth-team coach and obtained his Football Association coaching badge in May 1990.
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Ricky Sbragia took over as youth-team coach at Sunderland in 1994 and was later promoted to reserve team coach.
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Ricky Sbragia moved to Manchester United as reserve team coach on 20 November 2002, where he built up a successful reserve side, nurturing the fledgling talents of Kieran Richardson and Darren Fletcher, amongst others.
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Ricky Sbragia was appointed as first-team coach of Bolton Wanderers on 10 October 2005.
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Ricky Sbragia rejoined Sunderland's coaching staff in November 2007, and was appointed as caretaker manager following the departure of Roy Keane on 4 December 2008.
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On 24 May 2009, after guiding Sunderland to Premier League survival on the final day of the season, Ricky Sbragia resigned as manager of the club.
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Ricky Sbragia remained at Sunderland as chief scout, a post which he held until April 2011.
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Ricky Sbragia was appointed head coach of the Scotland national under-17 team in August 2011.
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Ricky Sbragia took temporary charge of the Scotland national under-21 team in November 2014.
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Ricky Sbragia took the Scotland national under-21 team job full-time on 12 August 2015.
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On 7 July 2017, Ricky Sbragia returned to Manchester United as manager of the club's Under-23 side after 12 years away.