Ceri Evans

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Ceri Evans
Personal information
Full name	Ceri Evans
Date of birth	October 2, 1963 (1963-10-02) (age 44)
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 Total	029 0(6) 021 0(2) 021 0(2) 091 0(5) 135 0(3) 297 (18)
National team2
?-1993	New Zealand	027 0(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 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand football (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 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.