Alan Kelly Junior

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Alan Kelly
FIFA WC-qualification 2014 - Austria vs Ireland 2013-09-10 - Alan Kelly 08.JPG
Alan Kelly 2013
Personnel
Surname Alan Thomas Kelly Junior
birthday August 11, 1968
place of birth Preston ,  England
size 188 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
Preston North End
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985-1992 Preston North End 142 (0)
1992-1999 Sheffield United 217 (0)
1999-2004 Blackburn Rovers 40 (0)
2001 →  Stockport County  (loan) 2 (0)
2001 →  Birmingham City  (loan) 6 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-2002 Ireland 34 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Alan Kelly Jr. (born August 11, 1968 in Preston , England ) is a retired Irish football player who played on the position of goalkeeper.

Player career

society

Kelly began his career at Preston North End in the Football League Fourth Division , succeeding his father Alan Kelly senior , who played 447 games for Preston. His older brother Gary is also a former goalkeeper.

For a transfer fee of 150,000 pounds, he moved to Sheffield United in July 1992 . He stayed with Sheffield until 1999, despite their relegation from the Premier League and came to 213 missions.

In 1999 Kelly moved to the Blackburn Rovers , where he came to 50 competitive appearances by 2004. Kelly was mostly just a spectator behind the American Brad Friedel , who joined the Rovers in 2000 . This was also the case with the final of the League Cup , when he was only a spectator. After Friedel's arrival in Blackburn, Kelly slipped to third goalkeeper behind John Filan . For this reason he toyed with the idea of ​​leaving the club in the winter of 2001. Filan, who was also dissatisfied as number two, came before Kelly and the club did not allow a change. In the meantime, the Irishman was awarded to Stockport County and Birmingham City for a period of one month. After the 2003/04 season he ended his active career.

National team

Kelly made 34 appearances for the Irish national team and was a member of the Irish national team at the 1994 and 2002 World Cups . However, the goalkeeper did not appear in a World Cup. In 1994 he was number two behind Pat Bonner , eight years later he had to give way to Shay Given . The goalkeeper did not particularly like the role of spectator in 2002. After he stood between the posts of the Irish national team in the first qualifying matches, coach Mick McCarthy put him on the bench after fluctuations in performance and injury at the end of qualification.

Coaching career

In the summer of 2006, Kelly was a goalkeeping coach at the academy soccer camps in Virginia , Maryland , Delaware and Pennsylvania in the United States . For the 2007/08 season he returned to his former club Blackburn Rovers , where he was henceforth a goalkeeping coach in the youth department.

He is currently the goalkeeping coach of the Irish national team.

successes

Trivia

  • Kelly's father, Alan Kelly Sr. , was also an Irish selection player between 1956 and 1973. His older brother Gary Kelly was also a professional footballer. Both, like Kelly, played in the position of goalkeeper.

Web links

Commons : Alan Kelly  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alan Kelly junior in the database of weltfussball.de
  2. ↑ a b Kelly eyes new opportunity  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from June 26, 2007 on rovers.co.uk@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rovers.co.uk  
  3. ↑ Football: Short set for Blackburn move, July 30, 1999 on independent.co.uk
  4. ↑ Kelly stunned by Souness decision of November 16, 2000 on kickinmagazine.ie (English)
  5. ↑ Kelly could stay at Ewood from February 8, 2001 on kickinmagazine.ie (English)
  6. ↑ STOCKPORT COUNTY: 1946/47 - 2009/10 on neilbrown.newcastlefans.com
  7. ↑ BLUES SWOOP FOR KELLY ( Memento from February 2, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) aufskysports.com (English)
  8. ^ Alan Kelly junior in the database of transfermarkt.de
  9. ↑ Squad of the Irish national team at the 1994 World Cup on weltfussball.de
  10. ↑ Squad of the Irish national team at the 2002 World Cup on weltfussball.de
  11. ^ Alan Kelly junior in the database of news.bbc.co.uk
  12. ↑ Sons and Daughters ( Memento from August 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on dspace.dial.pipec.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kelly junior, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kelly Junior, Alan Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Preston , England, UK