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Paul William Millar (born 16 November 1966) is a Northern Irish football player turned manager, who is now Gary Hamilton's assistant manager at IFA Premiership club Glenavon. As a player, he played in midfield and attack. He started at Glentoran, moving on to Portadown, before signing with Port Vale in 1988. Three years later he transferred to Cardiff City, and helped the Welsh club to top the Third Division in 1992–93. In 1995 he left the Football League to return to Ireland, signing with Linfield and later returned to Wales to play for Bangor. He also won youth caps for his country, and also earned a Northern Ireland B cap. As a manager, he was appointed manager of Bangor, before moving on to Ballymena United. In 2005 he was made manager of Newry City, moving on to Glentoran the next season, and then returning to the management position at Bangor in 2007. In 2008, he was appointed manager at Larne, before he left the club in April 2012. ==Playing career== Millar started his career with Glentoran, after scoring 15 goals in 28 appearances, he moved to Portadown. The young forward was selected as the Irish Young Footballer of the Year in 1986, and scored the winning goal in the final of the Irish Cup. He joined Port Vale in the English Third Division for £20,000 in December 1988. After playing just one reserve team game he seriously damaged his knee ligaments in training and after recovering finally made his debut at Vale Park in a 1–1 draw with Middlesbrough on 30 October 1989, coming on as a substitute.〔 With Vale now competing in the Second Division he struggled to gain a place in the first team and was loaned to Fourth Division side Hereford United in October 1990, returning to Vale the next month after two goals in five games at Edgar Street.〔 Overall he made 44 appearances for John Rudge's "Valiants", though most of these were as a substitute.〔 He was sold to Cardiff City for £60,000 in August 1991.〔 He made over 100 appearances in four years under "Bluebirds" manager Eddie May. Cardiff missed out on the play-offs by three points in 1991–92, before winning promotion to the Second Division as Third Division champions in 1992–93. Avoiding relegation by two points in 1993–94, Cardiff were relegated in 1994–95 after finishing twelve points short of safety. At this point Millar returned to Northern Ireland, signing with Linfield and then Portadown. He later became a player-manager, increasingly focussing on the management side of the game. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Millar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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