Alan McInally

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Alan McInally
Personnel
Surname Alan Bruce McInally
birthday February 10, 1963
place of birth Ayr ,  Scotland
size 186 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-1980 Ayr United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1984 Ayr United 93 (32)
1984-1987 Celtic Glasgow 65 (17)
1987-1989 Aston Villa 59 (18)
1989-1992 FC Bayern Munich 40 (10)
1993-1994 FC Kilmarnock 8 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1989-1990 Scotland 8 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Alan Bruce McInally (born February 10, 1963 in Ayr , Scotland ) is a former Scottish football player and current sports commentator.

Career

societies

From the youth of Ayr United , a football club based in his birthplace, McInally moved up at the age of 17 to the first team - playing in the second-rate First Division - for which he scored 32 goals in 93 league games from 1980 to 1984.

Then the first division club Celtic Glasgow signed him , for whom he scored 17 goals in 65 league games in three seasons. He was similarly successful after his move to the English second division Aston Villa ; in two seasons up to 1989 - including promotion to the first-class First Division in 1988 - he scored 18 goals in 59 games.

On July 29, 1989 (1st matchday), McInally made his debut in the Bundesliga when he scored two goals for Bayern Munich in a 3-2 win at home against 1. FC Nürnberg . The first of three seasons should be his most successful. The ten goals - including three double goals in 31 league games - he should not be able to continue due to injury nor repeat the German championship at the end of his first season. In addition, he played ten times in the European Cup and scored three goals; for the first time on April 18, 1990 in the semi-final second leg with the goal of the 2-1 win after extra time against AC Milan in Munich which - due to the away goals rule - was not enough to reach the final, last time on November 6, 1990 in the second leg of the second leg in the 3-0 win at CSKA Sofia with the goal to the final score in the 84th minute. In addition, he was used in three games for the DFB Cup in his first season - but remained without a goal.

Due to a serious knee injury, he was only used twice in the Bundesliga in the 1991/92 season . FC Bayern Munich fulfilled the striker's contract until the summer of 1993, in fact McInally was no longer part of the team in the 1992/93 season . After leaving Munich and recovering from his injury, he let his career end in June 1994 with the first division promoted FC Kilmarnock - with only eight appearances and no scoring .

National team

Due to a strong season performance in 1988 he was appointed to the senior national team of his country, for which he made his debut on February 8, 1989 in Limassol - as part of the World Cup qualification - in the 3-2 victory over Cyprus . In his second international match , on May 30, 1989 in Glasgow , in a 2-0 victory over the selection of Chile , he also scored his first of three goals with the opening goal in the 5th minute. He was also a member of the national team, which not only surprisingly lost 1-0 to Costa Rica at the 1990 World Cup in Italy , but was also eliminated in the preliminary round.

successes

Celtic Glasgow

Bayern Munich

Others

In 1979 and 1980 he won the Gothia Cup with his youth club Ayr United , the largest football tournament in the world based on the number of participants, and was elected to the All-Star Team 30 years after it was founded.

In the meantime, Alan McInally worked as a scout for FC Bayern Munich. Today he works as a sports commentator for Sky , and McInally also takes on the role of one of the British commentators on the FIFA video game series every year, along with Martin Tyler , Alan Smith , Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All Star Team - Men ( Memento from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME McInally, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McInally, Alan Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ayr , Scotland