Andrew Cole
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.jpg) Andrew Cole in 2014
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Andrew Alexander Cole | |
| birthday | 15th October 1971 | |
| place of birth | Nottingham , England | |
| size | 178 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1988-1989 | Arsenal FC | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1989-1992 | Arsenal FC | 1 (0) |
| 1991 | → Fulham FC (loan) | 13 (3) |
| 1992-1993 | Bristol City | 41 (20) |
| 1993-1995 | Newcastle United | 70 (55) |
| 1995-2001 | Manchester United | 195 (93) |
| 2001-2004 | Blackburn Rovers | 83 (27) |
| 2004-2005 | Fulham FC | 31 (12) |
| 2005-2006 | Manchester City | 22 (9) |
| 2006-2007 | Portsmouth FC | 18 (3) |
| 2007 | → Birmingham City (loan) | 5 (1) |
| 2007-2008 | Sunderland AFC | 7 (0) |
| 2008 | → Burnley FC (loan) | 13 (6) |
| 2008 | Nottingham Forest | 10 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1992-1993 | England U-21 | 8 (4) |
| 1994 | England B | 1 (1) |
| 1995-2002 | England | 15 (1) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Andrew Alexander Cole , also known as "Andy" Cole, (born October 15, 1971 in Nottingham ) is a former English football player . The striker and 15-time England international scored the third-highest goal in Premier League history with 187 goals behind Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney . His most successful period was with Manchester United between 1995 and 2001 , when he won five English championships ( 1996 , 1997 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 ), two FA Cup editions (1996, 1999) and the Champions League in 1999. In addition to the always above-average goal danger, which manifested itself in exceptionally good goals-per-game odds, speed and agility were considered Cole's great strengths, which often brought him decisive advantages in duels in opposing penalty areas.
Career
Training and first professional years (1988–1993)
Andrew Cole grew up with seven siblings and was the second youngest child of his parents who emigrated from Jamaica to England in the 1960s . Cole learned to stand on his own two feet early on. Father Lincoln was a miner in central England and the football-loving son left home at the age of 14 to attend what was then the English Football Association's football academy in Lilleshall . After finishing school, he joined Arsenal FC in London in 1988, where he signed his first professional contract in 1989. The first doubts about his future career arose when he did not make it into the senior team. With the "Gunners" he was only allowed to take part in a league game against Sheffield United , where he was just as substitute, as in 1991 in the Charity Shield game against Tottenham Hotspur (0-0).
In September 1991 Arsenal FC loaned him to Fulham FC, which was also based in London and was then active in the third division . There he came to the end of November that year in a total of 13 league games for the course and he scored three goals. Without further appearances for Arsenal after his return, he was allowed to move to the second division Bristol City in March 1992 . He recommended himself for the first time as a goalscorer with the “Rotkehlchen” and within one year he achieved an outstanding rate of over 0.5 goals per game with 25 goals from 49 competitive games. He was suddenly considered to be one of the most promising talents in English football and many prominent clubs in the recently founded Premier League were interested in signing up.
Newcastle United (1993-1995)
The choice fell in March 1993 on Newcastle United, based in the north-east of England and still playing in the second division . While the experts reacted with incomprehension in view of the high transfer fee of 1.75 million pounds for an inexperienced 21-year-old from a comparatively small club, Cole quickly turned out to be the reinforcement forecast by coach Kevin Keegan . Cole scored no less than twelve goals in the twelve remaining league matches of the 1992/93 season, including three goals against Leicester City . With speed and a pronounced scoring instinct, he was immediately an important factor within his new team, which won the second division championship by eight points and was promoted to the Premier League.
Together with the experienced English international striker Peter Beardsley , Cole went hunting for goals in the top English division during the 1993/94 season. Both scored 65 competitive goals and Cole scored 34 goals in the Premier League alone (out of a total of 41 competitive goals). He not only led the "Magpies" to third place in the final table, but also won the title of top scorer himself. He was also voted England's Footballer of the Year in the “Best Young Professional” category . Even at the beginning of the subsequent 1994/95 season, the flood of goals did not seem to end. By October 1994, Cole had scored 14 goals in 16 games when an injury put him out of action for a month and his club only won one of five games. After a hit on his "comeback", however, he suffered a lull of nine games without a goal before his move to top club Manchester United for six million pounds was announced in January 1995 . After 68 goals in 84 competitive games, he left Newcastle United.
Manchester United (1995-2001)
His move for a total of £ 7 million from Newcastle to Manchester United at the beginning of 1995 - the simultaneous move in the opposite direction by Keith Gillespie , who was valued at £ 1 million - was the most expensive transfer for an English player to date. He scored twelve goals straight away in the remaining games of the 1994/95 season for "United", including five goals for the 9-0 win against Ipswich Town. In addition to the positive voices, however, there were also some critics who accused Cole of being self-centered, of needing too many chances and not being able to score in decisive games. Manchester were in the title race with the Blackburn Rovers and ended up losing out as the team failed to get past 1-1 in their last game against West Ham United . Although the hit rate in the 1995/96 season with a total of eleven league goals was significantly lower than shortly before, Cole developed positively. The reasons for this were his good understanding with strike partner Éric Cantona and the generally improved team game. This was rewarded in 1996 with the " double " from the English championship and the FA Cup , with Cole having a large share in the final, especially in the cup semifinals with his interim equalization against Chelsea (final score 2: 1). In the subsequent 1996/97 season, Cole had to struggle with health problems for a long time when he was first incapacitated with pneumonia and then broke both legs in a game of the reserve team against Liverpool. It was not until the end of 1996 that he came back regularly and especially from February 1997 he managed a series of five goals in four games alongside his new partner Ole Gunnar Solskjær . That was enough to win another English Premier League title . Despite these successes, Cole remained controversial in Manchester and so the votes increased during the ultimately trophyless season 1997/98, coach Alex Ferguson is looking for a reinforcement in the center-forward position - Ferguson was particularly interested in signing the Chilean Marcelo Salas . The culmination of these rumors was Cole's signature on a new five-year contract in October 1997.
The 1998/99 season saw the beginning of the two best years in Andrew Cole's career. The player who had previously been very fixated on his own goalscoring qualities had meanwhile become an equally good preparer and with Dwight Yorke came from Aston Villa a footballer with whom he got along extremely well on the field. The highlight was winning the "triple" of the English championship, FA Cup and Champions League . Cole scored a total of 24 hits in the 1998/99 season and together with Yorke he formed one of the best European attacking duos. Important goals here were above all Cole's 2-1 winner on the last Premier League matchday against Tottenham Hotspur and his goal to 3-2 against Juventus Turin in the Champions League semifinals . In the 1999/2000 season, which brought him his fourth English championship , he not only passed the 100-goal mark at United with 22 competitive matches, but also set Denis Law's 30-year-old European Cup record - surpassed in September 2000 he even him. In December 2001, Cole said goodbye to Manchester. He had previously won the fifth league title in the 2000/01 season and scored ten goals alongside Teddy Sheringham - the great mutual antipathy that Cole and Sheringham shared during their time together attracted particular media attention. The arrival of the £ 19million Ruud van Nistelrooy meant Cole's replacement as a regular in the center-forward position. In December 2001, he therefore joined the Blackburn Rovers for a transfer fee of around eight million pounds.
Blackburn Rovers (2001-2004)
It took Cole less than two months for his new club to win the League Cup in the 2001-02 season . This trophy was the only "important" domestic title still missing from his collection and in the 2-1 final win against Tottenham Hotspur on February 24, 2002, he scored the winning goal. With the Rovers, who were only represented in the Premier League again after the 2001/02 season, the hope was great that they would have found a permanent successor to the formerly successful center forward Alan Shearer in Cole, but with tenth place and 15th With Andrew Cole's goals, one was happy that tenth place in the final table did not have to worry about relegation. When Dwight Yorke, his former companion from Manchester, finally also moved to Blackburn, expectations continued to grow. Neither of them were able to build on their formerly so successful times, but qualifying for the UEFA Cup again in the 2002/03 season was a success in the second year after the promotion.
The last season 2003/04 was not very pleasant for Cole in Blackburn. The "Rovers" suddenly found themselves in the lower half of the table and although Cole harmonized well with the young Jonathan Stead later on , the problems between him and coach Graeme Souness increased . This ultimately led to the separation and what was previously the most expensive transfer in club history became a player who moved to Fulham in July 2004 free of charge .
The last professional years (2004-2008)
After a 13-year absence, Cole returned to Craven Cottage and with two goals in the first home game against Bolton Wanderers (2-0) he re-introduced himself well to the ex-club. As a top scorer, he was a key player in Fulham FC with 13 competitive goals in the 2004/05 season. He acted as the only striker as well as on the side of the American Brian McBride . At the beginning of the 2005/06 season , Cole signed a two-year deal with Manchester City. For Stuart Pearce's team, he scored nine goals in 22 league games before being sidelined for the rest of the season due to an injury in February 2006. Shortly after renewing his contract for another year, he moved to the up and coming Portsmouth FC on the last day of the summer transfer period on August 31, 2006 , where he was reportedly offered a weekly salary of £ 40,000 for a total of two years.
In Harry Redknapp's team , however, Cole did not get beyond the status of a supplementary player behind Benjamin Mwaruwari , Lomana LuaLua and Nwankwo Kanu and was only five times in the starting line-up during 18 appearances. In March 2007 he was loaned to the second division club Birmingham City until the end of the 2006/07 season , where Steve Bruce, his former team-mate from Manchester United, had taken over as coach. After his return, Portsmouth FC gave him permission to change clubs in August 2007.
The next station was shortly thereafter the first division promoted AFC Sunderland , where he met again on Dwight Yorke and with trainer Roy Keane on another companion from Manchester. But even there Cole did not find back to his old strength and in January 2008 the second division FC Burnley FC on loan until the end of the 2007/08 season was the next employer. In July 2008 he signed another one-year contract with the second-rate home club Nottingham Forest . However, he did not score a single goal for Forest in eleven appearances this season (five times in the starting line-up), which is why the contract was terminated early by mutual agreement. On November 11, 2008, Cole announced his retirement from active professional sports.
English national team
Although Cole had already been active for England as a junior international player in 1987 and had scored four goals in eight games of the U-21 selection between 1992 and 1993 , he was denied a longer career in the national team . Three months after a B international match against Poland (1-1) on December 13, 1994, he made his debut as a substitute against Uruguay (0-0), but neither under Terry Venables (until 1996), Glenn Hoddle (1996-1999 ) nor Kevin Keegan (1999 to 2000), he had notable working times. In February 1999, he played again as a substitute for only his third international match, after he had not been considered for either the Euro 1996 in his own country or the 1998 World Cup in France .
Although he had the best percentage of goals out of the game in the Premier League at Manchester United in the second half of the 1990s - Alan Shearer was nominally superior to him, but also scored numerous "easy goals" from penalties in his career Cole was never up front in the pecking order of the English strikers and he also had a reputation for needing too many chances for his goals. In 1996, the storm duo Shearer-Sheringham was preferred, so for the 1998 World Cup, the young Michael Owen played himself directly in the team at Shearer's side. By 2002 he "struggled" to fifteen international matches and his only goal was on March 28, 2001 against Albania . When Keegan's successor Sven-Göran Eriksson also ignored him in the squad composition for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and Korea and Cole already missed the fourth finals in a row after the Euro 2000 , he announced his resignation.
Alongside and after an active career
After the end of his active career, ex-Manchester colleague Paul Ince hired him in August 2009 as a part-time coach for the strikers of the Milton Keynes Dons club he oversees . Just a week later, he and his close friend Lee Clark agreed to work in the same capacity for Huddersfield Town for another two days a week .
Away from football, Cole tried in 1999 in the music business and took a cover version of the 1982 GAP band recorded title "Outstanding", which did not make it into the UK single charts . Around the turn of the millennium, Cole also worked for orphans in Zimbabwe as part of the “Andy Cole Children's Foundation” - the organization was renamed “All Star Kids” after his involvement was ended.
Title / Awards
- World Cup Winner : 1999
- Champions League winner: 1999
- English champion: 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001
- FA Cup winners: 1996, 1999
- English league cup winner: 2002
- Charity Shield Winner: 1991 (shared), 1996, 1997
- Best young professional ("PFA Young Player of the Year"): 1994
- Premier League top scorer : 1994
Season statistics
| society | league | season | league | FA Cup | League Cup | European Cup | Other | total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Gates | Games | Gates | Games | Gates | Games | Gates | Games | Gates | Games | Gates | |||
| Arsenal FC | First Division | 1989/90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 |
| 1990/91 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1991/92 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| total | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Fulham FC | Third Division | 1991/92 | 13 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | 3 |
| total | 13 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | 3 | ||
| Bristol City | Second Division | 1991/92 | 12 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 8th |
| 1992/93 | 29 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 29 | 12 | ||
| total | 41 | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 41 | 20th | ||
| Newcastle United | First Division | 1992/93 | 12 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 12 |
| Premier League | 1993/94 | 40 | 34 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6th | - | - | - | - | 46 | 41 | |
| 1994/95 | 18th | 9 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4th | - | - | 27 | 15th | ||
| total | 70 | 55 | 4th | 1 | 8th | 8th | 3 | 4th | - | - | 85 | 68 | ||
| Manchester United | Premier League | 1994/95 | 18th | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18th | 12 |
| 1995/96 | 33 | 11 | 7th | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 42 | 13 | ||
| 1996/97 | 20th | 6th | 3 | 0 | - | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | 28 | 7th | ||
| 1997/98 | 34 | 15th | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7th | 5 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 25th | ||
| 1998/99 | 32 | 17th | 7th | 2 | - | - | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 50 | 24 | ||
| 1999/00 | 28 | 19th | - | - | - | - | 13 | 3 | 4th | 0 | 45 | 22nd | ||
| 2000/01 | 19th | 9 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 10 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 31 | 13 | ||
| 2001/02 | 11 | 4th | - | - | - | - | 4th | 1 | - | - | 15th | 5 | ||
| total | 195 | 93 | 21st | 9 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 19th | 7th | 0 | 275 | 121 | ||
| Blackburn Rovers | Premier League | 2001/02 | 15th | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 20th | 13 |
| 2002/03 | 34 | 7th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 4th | 3 | 0 | - | - | 43 | 13 | ||
| 2003/04 | 34 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 37 | 11 | ||
| total | 83 | 27 | 5 | 3 | 8th | 7th | 4th | 0 | - | - | 100 | 37 | ||
| Fulham FC | Premier League | 2004/05 | 31 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 39 | 13 |
| total | 31 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 39 | 13 | ||
| Manchester City | Premier League | 2005/06 | 22nd | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | 10 |
| total | 22nd | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | 10 | ||
| Portsmouth FC | Premier League | 2006/07 | 18th | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 22nd | 4th |
| total | 18th | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 22nd | 4th | ||
| Birmingham City | Championship | 2006/07 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 |
| total | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | ||
| Sunderland AFC | Premier League | 2007/08 | 7th | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8th | 0 |
| total | 7th | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8th | 0 | ||
| Burnley FC | Championship | 2007/08 | 13 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | 6th |
| total | 13 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | 6th | ||
| Nottingham Forest | Championship | 2008/09 | 10 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 11 | 0 |
| total | 10 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 11 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 509 | 230 | 39 | 15th | 24 | 16 | 57 | 23 | 8th | 0 | 637 | 284 | ||
Source: footballdatabase.eu
Web links
- Andrew Cole in the soccerbase.com database
- Profile at Manchester United
- A internationals for Andrew Cole
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Andrew Cole: 'Play it straight with me, and I'll be straight. No curve balls' " (The Independent)
- ↑ "Andy Cole - Newcastle United FC 1993-1995" (Sporting Heroes)
- ↑ "Andy Cole - Manchester United FC 1995-2001 (Part 1)" (Sporting Heroes)
- ↑ "Andy Cole - Manchester United FC 1995-2001 (Part 2)" (Sporting Heroes)
- ↑ Mike Jackman: Blackburn Rovers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2009, ISBN 978-1-85983-709-2 , pp. 167 f .
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2005/2006 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-85291-662-6 , pp. 86 .
- ^ "Portsmouth complete Cole signing" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Birmingham sign Cole in loan deal" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Striker Cole ends playing career" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ kicker sports magazine from March 16, 1987
- ^ "England - International Results B-Team - Details" (RSSSF)
- ↑ "On second thoughts ... Andy Cole" (The Guardian)
- ↑ "Cole to fule Dons firepower" ( Memento from August 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (MK Dons FC)
- ^ "Huddersfield Town boss: We can get better!" (Huddersfield Daily Examiner)
- ↑ "Zimbabwe: Cole Set to Visit This Week" (AllAfrica)
- ^ Andrew Cole ( French ) Sport360 °. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cole, Andrew |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cole, Andrew Alexander; Cole, Andy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th October 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nottingham |