Alan McCarthy

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Alan McCarthy
Personnel
Surname Alan James McCarthy
birthday January 11, 1972
place of birth WandsworthEngland
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
1986-1990 Queens Park Rangers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1995 Queens Park Rangers 11 (0)
1993-1994 →  Watford FC  (loan) 9 (0)
1994 →  Plymouth Argyle  (loan) 2 (0)
1995-1997 Leyton Orient 47 (0)
Boreham Wood FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
England youth
1993 Wales U-21 3 (0)
1994 Wales B 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Alan James McCarthy (born January 11, 1972 in Wandsworth , London ) is a former English-Welsh football player . The central defender made eleven top division appearances for Queens Park Rangers in six years and also played for Watford FC , Plymouth Argyle and Leyton Orient in the three other professional leagues of the English league system .

Career

McCarthy joined the London premier league club Queens Park Rangers in February 1986 while still at school . After finishing school in June 1988, he received a contract as a trainee and finally signed his first professional contract with QPR in December 1989. He made his competitive debut in the Full Members Cup on November 21, 1990 against Southampton FC and made his league debut three days later against Arsenal FC when the club's regular central defense failed. Despite his strengths in opening the game, McCarthy had to be content with appearances in the reserve team. In November and December 1991 he played in three games as part of a three-man central defense, in which QPR remained undefeated, the inaugural season 1992/93 of the Premier League he remained behind the regular central defenders Alan McDonald and Darren Peacock , with whom the Rangers took fifth place, completely without commitment.

Since McCarthy remained in the episode only the role of the supplementary player, he was loaned twice in the 1993/94 season; first for two months at the second division Watford FC , where he represented the injured left-back Jason Drydale , then for a short time in the third division at Plymouth Argyle . His working times for QPR were meanwhile manageable, towards the end of the 1993/94 season he came to four missions, in 1994/95 it was only enough for two. In the summer of 1995 McCarthy finally left after 13 competitive appearances QPR and moved for a transfer of £ 25,000 to the East London club Leyton Orient, which had just been relegated to the fourth division . McCarthy established himself there, who convinced with his tackle strength and ball security, immediately and played 43 of the 48 season games. After an argument with coach Pat Holland he was put on the transfer list, but was also part of the squad for the following season under Tommy Taylor . Due to a groin injury, McCarthy was only sporadically considered and after an upcoming move to Northampton Town failed because of his injury, he only managed to return to Leyton Orient's matchday squad for a short time. At the end of the season he received no new contract offer and then continued his football career in amateur football with Boreham Wood in the Isthmian League .

McCarthy played internationally for England at junior level, but later decided to switch to the Welsh federation and played three games in the Welsh U-21 national team in 1993 alongside later national players such as John Hartson , Danny Coyne and John Robinson . In February 1994, in a 2-1 win against Scotland B, another deployment for the Welsh B national team followed, with Jason Perry and Alan Neilson forming the defense center.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Barry J. Hugman, Alan Platt: FA Carling Premiership, The Players, 1993-1994 . Tony Williams Publications, North Curry 1993, ISBN 1-869833-46-5 , pp. 217 .
  2. ^ Trefor Jones: The Watford Football Club Illustrated Who's Who . TG Jones, Twickenham 1996, ISBN 0-9527458-0-1 , pp. 152 .
  3. ^ John Marks: Heroes in Hoops - QPR Who's Who 1899 ~ 2003 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2003, ISBN 1-874427-84-4 , pp. 127 .
  4. Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1996, ISBN 1-85291-571-4 , pp. 152 .
  5. ^ Neilson N. Kaufman: The Men Who Made Leyton Orient Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2002, ISBN 0-7524-2412-2 , pp. 320 .
  6. Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1997-98 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1997, ISBN 1-85291-581-1 , pp. 170 .
  7. Jack Rollin (Ed.): Rothmans Football Yearbook 1994-95 . Headline Book Publishing, London 1994, ISBN 0-7472-7857-1 , pp. 899 .
  8. ^ Phil Shaw: Football: McCart in the cart. The Independent , February 3, 1994, accessed May 19, 2018 .