Andy Beattie

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Andy Beattie
Personnel
Surname Andrew Beattie
birthday August 11, 1913
place of birth Kintore , Aberdeenshire ,  Scotland
date of death 20th September 1983
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
19 ?? - 1935 FC Inverurie Loco Works
1935-1947 Preston North End 125 (4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1937-1938 Scotland 7 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1947-1949 AFC Barrow
1949-1952 Stockport County
1952-1956 Huddersfield Town
1954 Scotland
1958-1960 Carlisle United
1959-1960 Scotland
1960-1963 Nottingham Forest
1963-1964 Plymouth Argyle
1964-1966 Wolverhampton Wanderers
1 Only league games are given.

Andrew "Andy" Beattie (born August 11, 1913 in Kintore , Aberdeenshire , † September 20, 1983 ) was a Scottish football player who acted in defense and continued his career after finishing his active career as a coach.

Life

Club player

Beattie first played for his hometown club FC Inverurie Loco Works before moving to Preston North End in 1935 for the sum of 150 pounds . There he remained for a long time in the role of a reservist and was first used in the 1936/37 season. At the end of the same season he reached the FA Cup final against Sunderland , which was lost 3-1 with his club . In the following season 1937/38 Preston was more successful and won the FA Cup final again reached 1-0 after extra time against Huddersfield Town . It was the most important title win in Beattie's playing career. During the Second World War , he won the Football League War Cup with Preston in the 1940/41 season with a 2-1 final win in the replay against Arsenal after the first game (1-1) had not found a winner.

National player

After a good season at Preston North End Beattie received his first appointment to the Scottish national team for the April 17, 1937 encounter with England , which the Scots in Glasgow's Hampden Park were able to decide 3-1 in their favor. Also in his second use against England on April 9, 1938 at London's Wembley Stadium , the Scottish selection retained the upper hand with 1-0.

Trainer

In 1947 Beattie ended his active career and took over the post of head coach at AFC Barrow . Two years later he took over the coaching post at Stockport County and between 1952 and 1956 he led the training at Huddersfield Town , where he celebrated his first major successes as a coach. In his first season 1952/53 he succeeded in second place in the second division , which entitled to promotion to the top division . There, the climber managed a very respectable third place in the 1953/54 season . His success with Huddersfield made those responsible in the Scottish Association sit up and take notice, who were looking for a new national coach in early 1954.

With effect from February 1, 1954 Beattie was committed to the national coach and went down in history at the following World Cup in 1954 as the first coach of the Scottish national team at a World Cup . The team lost both games (0: 1 against Austria and 0: 7 against Uruguay , which is the Bravehearts' biggest international defeat to date ), so that the disappointed Beattie resigned from his position as national coach immediately after the World Cup. He later coached the Scottish national team again between March 1959 and October 1960, but resigned again from this position due to a lack of success.

At the time of his second job as a national coach, Beattie was a club coach at Carlisle United . The people in charge of the founding member of the fourth-rate Football League Fourth Division , launched in 1958 , had committed Beattie for the opening season 1958/59. In 1960 he moved to the first division club Nottingham Forest and looked after the Garibaldi Reds in the Messestädte-Pokal 1961/62 at their first appearance in a European competition. In the first round, Forest met the eventual tournament winner, Valencia CF , to whom they were clearly defeated (0: 2 and 1: 5). Beattie then worked for Plymouth Argyle and Wolverhampton Wanderers between 1963 and 1966 .

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scotland Football Stats: Andy Beattie (1954) (English)
personal data
SURNAME Beattie, Andy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beattie, Andrew (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kintore , Aberdeenshire , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1983