“The club weren’t totally convinced about me being able to make the next step,” he admitted. When it got to that crucial stage of any young footballers’ life of finding out whether he was going to be offered a professional contract, it was a nervy moment. “I guess at that age it was all new and I didn’t know anyone but within a few weeks I settled down and it all turned out fine.” I’m not afraid to admit that soon after making the decision, I started to regret it and told my dad that I thought I had made a mistake. It was a tough decision and I let my heart rule my head. “But then I faced a dilemma I was asked to join Celtic. We had a good group of young players and it was a proper club who did things the right way. “I ended up staying for a couple of years and absolutely loved it despite my allegiances to Celtic. “The Head of Youth from the main Rangers team was at the game and I was invited to move up to join them. “I was a right winger at the time and in one of games we played opposite the main Ibrox Stadium and I scored four times. “At the age of 12 or 13 I was invited to play for the Ayrshire Rangers team having done well in local junior football,” recalled Caddis.

He has worked under the likes of Gordon Strachan, Tony Mowbray, Paolo Di Canio, Lee Clark and Gianfranco Zola, which has stood him in good stead for his own coaching career which began within the Fleetwood Town Academy and now starts an exciting new chapter here at Edgar Street.Ī lifelong Celtic supporter, it was at his beloved club where he made his senior debut in January 2008, but what many don’t realise is that it was in the blue of arch rivals, Rangers, where he cut his footballing teeth.

The 35 year-old, who hails from Irvine, a coastal town in North Ayrshire, Scotland, is fresh from a senior playing career that spanned 13 years and just shy of 400 appearances both north and south of the border.Īs an energetic, determined and ever-willing performer, he excelled in the right-back berth but also proved adept in a number of different positions during a career which also saw him capped by his country at various levels up to senior level and skipper almost every team that he represented. PAUL Caddis officially takes over at the Hereford FC helm today in what is his first managerial appointment.

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