Alan Thompson (soccer player, 1973)

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Alan Thompson
Personnel
birthday 22nd December 1973
place of birth Newcastle ,  England
size 183 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1991-1993 Newcastle United 13 0(0)
1993-1998 Bolton Wanderers 143 (37)
1998-2000 Aston Villa 36 0(4)
2000-2007 Celtic Glasgow 146 (37)
2007 →  Leeds United  (loan) 9 0(3)
2007-2008 Leeds United 9 0(2)
2008 →  Hartlepool United  (loan) 7 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
England U18
1995 England U-21 2 0(0)
2004 England 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2008-2010 Newcastle United (youth coach)
2010– Celtic Glasgow (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Alan Thompson (born December 22, 1973 in Newcastle ) is an English former football player and current coach. He has been with Celtic Glasgow since 2010 .

Player career

society

Thompson comes from Newcastle United's youth division . In the 1990/91 season he was accepted into the professional team. There he played for three years until he moved to the second division for the Bolton Wanderers in the 1993/94 season for a transfer fee of the equivalent of 375,000 euros . After he came to only a few assignments with the Magpies , he developed excellently with the Wanderers and rose to a high performer. On April 2, 1995, the midfielder stood with Bolten in the final of the English League Cup 1994/95 . There the club met Liverpool . Despite a goal from Thompson, the match was lost 2-1. In the same year, the club finished third in the league. Finally, they were promoted to the Premier League via the play-offs . For the 1995/96 season , however, the club did not manage to keep the class. After 46 games in the Football League and only four defeats, they were immediately promoted again. With an eighteen point lead in second place, this success was confidently secured. With the new season, the new Reebok Stadium was opened. On September 23, 1997, the first competitive game in the new home ground, Thompson succeeded by penalty in the 1-1 draw against Tottenham Hotspur, the first goal in the stadium. The renewed first division season with Bolton did not go well and at the end of the season the club was back on a relegation zone. Decisive for this was the poor goal difference compared to Everton , which held the class. In the summer of 1998, the midfield engine switched to Aston Villa after five years for the equivalent of 7,200,000 euros . He finished sixth twice in a row with his new club. After two years he left the club from Birmingham again to move to the Scottish top club Celtic Glasgow . The transfer fee was the equivalent of 4,400,000 euros. His most successful years followed there. In 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2006 he won the Scottish Championship with the Celtics. In 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2007, Thompson secured the Scottish FA Cup with his club and in 2006 the Scottish League Cup . Only in the final of the League Cuss 2006 was the midfielder in the starting line-up of the green-whites and remained an unused substitute. In 2003 Thompson reached the final of the UEFA Cup . On May 21st of that year they met FC Porto in the Seville Olympic Stadium . Thompson was in the starting line-up for the Scots. The game was lost 2: 3 after extra time. In the winter break of 2006/07 the Celtic board gave Thompson until the end of the season to Leeds United , who was second class at that time. In the summer of 2007 he finally moved to the Peacocks and that, although the club was relegated to the bottom of the table for the first time in the club's history in Football League One . For the new season coach Dennis Wise made him Leeds captain. After Wise's assistant Gus Poyet left the club at the beginning of the season, Thompson slipped into the coaching staff and acted from then on as player-coach until Dave Bassett was finally introduced as the new co of Wise. In January 2008, Thompson was loaned to league rivals Hartlepool United for a month . At the end of the season he finally announced that he wanted to end his active professional career.

National team

Thompson was called up once into the England squad at the age of 30 . Before that, he had already played games for English youth teams. In the game against Sweden on March 31, 2004 , the then English coach Sven-Göran Eriksson put him in the starting line-up before replacing the midfielder in the 62nd minute for Jermaine Jenas . The game was lost 0-1. At the time of his only international match for England, Thompson was in the service of Celtic Glasgow. Through his use against Sweden, he became the first "Celtic Englishman" to play a national team game.

Coaching career

After his playing career, Thompson stayed with football. In the summer of 2008 he returned to his youth club Newcastle United and trained there in the youth field. He owed this offer to his former coach Kevin Keegan . There he formed players like Nile Ranger , James Tavernier and Tamás Kádár , who soon made their professional debut. After the 2008/09 season, Thompson led the Newcastle reserve team to victory in the Northumberland Senior Cup competition . In the final game on May 12, 2009, the team prevailed against the team from AFC Ashington 4-0. After two years he moved to the coaching staff of Neil Lennon , who was head coach at Thompson's former club Celtic Glasgow in the summer of 2010.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alan Thompson in the database of sporting-heroes.net
  2. ↑ Leeds sign Celtic's Thompson from January 11, 2007 on thefootballnetwork.net (English)
  3. ^ League One club-by-club transfer window guide dated February 1, 2008 at timesonline.co.uk
  4. ↑ Thompson calls it a day at Leeds after 17-year career including Bolton, Villa and Celtic from May 28, 2008 on dailymail.co.uk (English)
  5. ↑ Celtic Midfielder Called Up Into Three Lions Squad on boltonwanderers-mad.co.uk (English)
  6. ^ Alan Thompson in the englandfootballonline.com database
  7. ↑ Match report: Sweden - England 1-0 (0-0) on weltfussball.de
  8. ↑ a b Alan Thompson happy to be returning to Celtic as coach from June 18, 2010 on telegraph.co.uk (English)
  9. ↑ Former Bhoys, Bolton and Villa star Thompson gets post of Newcastle's Academy coach from July 30, 2008 on dailymail.co.uk (English)
  10. ^ Tournament history: Northumberland Senior Cup 2009 on northumberlandfa.com
personal data
SURNAME Thompson, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd December 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle