Scot Gemmill

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Scot Gemmill
Personnel
Surname Scotland Gemmill
birthday 2nd January 1971
place of birth Paisley ,  Scotland
size 185 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000-1990 Nottingham Forest
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1990-1999 Nottingham Forest 245 (21)
1999-2004 Everton FC 97 0(5)
2004 →  Preston North End  (loan) 7 0(1)
2004-2006 Leicester City 17 0(0)
2006 Oxford United 1 0(0)
2006-2007 New Zealand Knights 20 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995-2003 Scotland 26 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Scotland "Scot" Gemmill (born January 2, 1971 in Paisley ) is a former Scottish football player . He is the son of former soccer player Archie Gemmill and played in central midfield. Most recently he was active in the A-League with the New Zealand Knights .

Career

Gemmill's professional career began in 1990 at Nottingham Forest , where he had previously played in his youth. His father Archie Gemmill was already active for Forest from 1977 to 1979, where he had won an English championship and the European Cup. His first coach was Brian Clough who had coached Nottingham back in his father's time. He made his debut in March 1991 in the away win over FC Wimbledon and he came to another use during the season. His first professional year he finished eighth in the First Division from 1990/91 . As a great success, his team was able to celebrate the entry into the FA Cup final in 1991 , which Forest had last achieved in 1959. His team lost the game 1: 2 after extra time with an own goal by Des Walker . Scot Gemmill was not used in this game. After the 1991/92 season ended eighth as in the previous year (Gemmill scored eight goals in 39 games), the crash began in the newly formed Premier League in 1992/93 . Forest rose from bottom of the table in the second division.

Teammates like Roy Keane and Nigel Clough changed clubs and so his team was faced with a rebuilding, which was particularly successful thanks to the commitment of the young Stan Collymore . Collymore scored 19 goals in 27 league games and shot Forest back in the first division in the first second division year. The team had reached a second place in the table behind Crystal Palace . Gemmill (30 games / 8 goals) also had a good series of games.

The return to the Premier League in 1994/95 was a triumph, because the promoted team reached a third place in the table behind champions Blackburn Rovers and runner-up Manchester United . In his first appearance on the international stage, Gemmill only failed in the quarter-finals of the 1995/96 UEFA Cup at Bayern Munich , which would later win the title. In the league it was enough to place 9.

All the more surprising was the renewed crash in the 1996/97 season, which again resulted in being bottom of the table in the second division. Gemmill remained loyal to his club this time in contrast to Stuart Pearce and experienced another direct resurgence, this time even as champions of the second division. This time the storm duo Pierre van Hooijdonk (41 games / 29 goals) and Kevin Campbell (42 games / 23 goals) were outstanding . Due to an unfortunate transfer policy under coach Dave Bassett , however, the direct relegation followed for the first time. Even before his third relegation, Scot Gemmill moved in late March 1999 and joined Everton FC for £ 250,000 .

Everton ended the year in 14th place and in the following years always found its place in the lower third of the Premier League table . An exception was the Premier League 2002/03 in the Gemmils team finished seventh, so that the international participation but just missed. Scot Gemmill was rarely used , especially after the coaching change from Walter Smith to David Moyes . In the course of the following season he moved on loan to Preston North End in the English second division.

At the beginning of the next season he moved to Leicester City and back to the East Midlands . After two years in the second division and irregular periods of play with a short trip to Oxford United , Gemmill switched to the New Zealand Knights as player-coach in the Australian A-League . There he ended his playing career after the year.

Scottish national team

Scot Gemmil was like his father for the Scottish national soccer team and took part in the 1996 European soccer championship and the 1998 soccer world championship , but without being used.

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personal data
SURNAME Gemmill, Scot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gemmill, Scotland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Paisley