Ceri Evans

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Ceri Evans
Personal information
Full name	Ceri Evans
Date of birth	October 02, 1963 (age 43)
Place of birth	Christchurch, New Zealand
Playing position	defender
Club information
Current club	retired
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1979-1981 1982 1983 1984-1988 1989-1993	Nelson United Christchurch United Dunedin City Christchurch United Oxford United	29 (6) 21 (2) 21 (2) 91 (5)
National team2
?-1993	New Zealand	27 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 February 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 9 February 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Ceri Evans (born October 2, 1963) was a successful New Zealand soccer player who frequently represented his country as a central defender in the 1980s and 90s. Evans attended Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, where he studied medicine and played for Oxford United FC. He was also an accomplished chess and Karate player. He was recommended to Oxford by former player Richard Hill, who played in New Zealand for a while after leaving the club.

Evans headed to the UK in 1988 to study Psychology at Oxford University. Having become a Rhodes Scholar, Ceri spent the next 15 years working in London hospitals. Today Ceri is a Forensic Psychiatrist, a uniquely specialist role managing a secure ward of “acute mentally unwell” patients that pose a threat and require security as part of their treatment.