Nicky Wood

Nicky Wood
Personnel
Surname	Nicholas Anthony Wood
birthday	January 11, 1966
place of birth	Oldham ,  England
position	attack
Juniors
Years	station
1981-1985	Manchester United
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1983-1989	Manchester United	3 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	England U-19
1 Only league games are given.

Nicholas Anthony "Nicky" Wood (born January 11, 1966 in Oldham ) is a former English football player .

Career

Wood joined Manchester United in 1981 as a youth player and in 1982 was a substitute behind the seeded strikers Norman Whiteside and Mark Hughes in the youth team, which lost 7-6 in the final of the FA Youth Cup Watford to Watford. In 1983, Wood, who was studying economics at the University of Manchester alongside his footballing career, signed a professional contract. In 1985 Dave Sexton appointed him to the English squad for the Junior World Championship in the Soviet Union. The poorly prepared team retired after defeats against China and Mexico as well as a draw against Paraguay after the preliminary round, Wood was part of the starting lineup in the first two games against Paraguay and China.

On his competitive debut for Manchester, the offensive player came on Boxing Day 1985 as a substitute against Everton, over a year later he made his starting line-up debut under coach Alex Ferguson on March 28, 1987 against Nottingham Forest. At the beginning of the 1988/89 season, doctors diagnosed a fatigue fracture on his spine as the reason for his back problems, which had been going on for a year. On medical advice, he ended his career because of this injury in January 1989.

literature

• Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 416 f .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIFA (Ed.): Technical Report - USSR '85 . Zurich 1985, p. 44f