Adrian Boothroyd

Aidy Boothroyd
Personnel
Surname	Adrian Neil Boothroyd
birthday	February 8, 1971
place of birth	Bradford ,  England
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1989-1990	Huddersfield Town	10 (0)
1990-1992	Bristol Rovers	16 (0)
1992-1993	Heart of Midlothian	4 (0)
1993-1996	Mansfield Town	102 (3)
1996-1998	Peterborough United	26 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2005-2008	Watford FC
2009-2010	Colchester United
2010-2011	Coventry City
2011-2013	Northampton Town
2014–	England U-20
1 Only league games are given.

Adrian Neil "Aidy" Boothroyd (born February 8, 1971 in Bradford ) is an English football coach and former player . He is currently the coach of England's U-20 national team . He previously coached the English fourth division club Northampton Town and was the youngest sporting director in the Premier League with Watford FC in the 2006/07 season .

Player career

As a football player, Boothroyd was mostly active as a full-back - apart from a year-long stay with the Scottish first division club Heart of Midlothian - in the lower English professional leagues. His club stations were thereby Huddersfield Town , Bristol Rovers , Mansfield Town and Peterborough United . Due to injury, he then had to end his active career early at the age of only 26.

Coaching career

After the end of his playing career, he was at Peterborough United junior coach of the U-17, U-19 and reserve team of the club. There he made a name for himself with his good tactical understanding and great driving force and moved to Norwich City in 2001 to lead the training of the local youth team there under Nigel Worthington . After two years at Carrow Road , he occupied the position of technical director of the youth academy at West Bromwich Albion and moved to Leeds United in 2004 to become the assistant coach for the professional team. After just one more year, at the age of just 34, he was hired as head coach of Watford FC in March 2005 .

At that time, Watford FC was in a precarious position in the second-rate Football League Championship and quite a few supporters and experts were surprised by the club management's decision to appoint an inexperienced and young coach to this position. Rather, because of the existential threat of relegation, an experienced sports director was preferred. However, the presidium was firmly behind this decision and the installation of Boothroyd should lead the association into a new era from now on. After securing relegation, the young coach quickly received the necessary support from the ranks of the supporters.

Already at the beginning of the 2005/06 season Boothroyd publicly stated that his goal was promotion to the Premier League. Although this project was viewed as unrealistic, consistently good season performances ensured that the self-confidence in the club grew steadily and in the end a place was achieved that guaranteed participation in the play-off games for promotion to the premier league. There Boothroyd and his team beat Crystal Palace on a return leg and then faced Leeds United in the final, for whom he had recently worked as a Kotrainer. There Watford was actually able to climb into the English elite class with a surprisingly high 3-0 victory. The reason for this soaring was seen by many experts almost exclusively in the coaching work of Boothroyd, as he managed to instill self-confidence in a team that they had not had a year earlier. Although the club had to return immediately to the second division in the 2006/07 season as bottom of the table, the club management extended the contract with Boothroyd and in October 2007 received the award for best second division coach of the month. After the direct resurgence in the 2007/08 season but failed and the season start in the 2008/09 season was mixed, Boothroyd agreed with Watford FC on an early termination of the contract.

On September 2, 2009 Boothroyd was the new coach of the third division Colchester United and successor to the Scottish Paul Lambert .

At the beginning of the Football League Championship 2010/11 he took over the coaching post at the second division club Coventry City , but was dismissed in March 2011. In November 2011 he took over the fourth division club Northampton Town , where he was released in 2013.

Boothroyd has been the coach of the England U-20 national team since 2014 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Boothroyd handed Colchester job" (BBC Sport)