Andy Impey

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Andy Impey
Personnel
Surname Andrew Rodney Impey
birthday September 30, 1971
place of birth Hammersmith , London ,  England
position Full-back , winger
Juniors
Years station
1988 Wimbledon FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1990 FC Yeading
1990-1997 Queens Park Rangers 187 (13)
1997-1998 West Ham United 27 0(0)
1998-2004 Leicester City 152 0(1)
2004 →  Nottingham Forest  (loan) 16 0(1)
2004-2005 Nottingham Forest 20 0(0)
2005 →  Millwall FC  (loan) 5 0(0)
2005-2006 Coventry City 16 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1992 England U-21 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Andrew Rodney "Andy" Impey (born September 30, 1971 in Hammersmith , London ) is a former English football player . As a tricky and agile winger and full-back, he first made a name for himself with the Queens Park Rangers before he celebrated the greatest success of his career after moving to Leicester City by winning the league cup .

Athletic career

Impey's football career began in the youth division of Wimbledon FC . After only one month the contract was terminated and so he tried his hand at amateur football in London at FC Yeading , while at the same time pursuing a civil profession as a window maker. For Yeading, Impey completed the 1989/90 season in the eight-class, third-highest tier of the Isthmian League , where he celebrated a respectable success with first place and the associated promotion to the next higher division, which was crowned with victory in the FA Vase . Shortly after the cup final, he was then signed by the London-based Queens Park Rangers , who were then looked after by Don Howe . There he came after three substitutions in cup games on January 11, 1992 under the new coach Gerry Francis to his first division debut against Coventry City , when he represented the injured Andy Sinton . In March 1992 he returned to the team and kept his newly won regular position on the right side of the midfield, where he impressed with speed, trickery and both feet.

At the side of prominent players such as Les Ferdinand and Ray Wilkins , Impey finished fifth with “QPR” in the first Premier League season in 1992/93 and the years that followed went well for him personally. In 1993, 1994 and 1995, the “public darling” won the club's internal election for best player three times in a row. At the national level, however, it should not be enough for him and his only commitment for the English U-21 selection in 1992 was not followed by any more (with the exception of an appointment to the B-team), which was mainly due to the fact that the English The senior squad on the wing in the 1990s with Darren Anderton , Steve McManaman and David Beckham had better alternatives. In 1996 things went downhill with relegation from the first division and after a year in the second division he returned to the Premier League with his move to West Ham United at the end of September 1997 . There he only spent a little over a year before he was sold to league rivals Leicester City in late November 1998 . The original destination had previously been Nottingham Forest . On the way to the transfer negotiations Impey received a message from Frank Sinclair stating that Leicester was also interested in him and after meeting the local trainer Martin O'Neill he signed a new contract with the Foxes.

Impey made 152 league appearances for Leicester City in six years. In addition, he won the League Cup in 2000 and was substituted on in the 77th minute for Stefan Oakes in the 2-1 final win against Tranmere Rovers - Leicester had also reached the final the year before, but lost there and Impey was due to a previous West -Ham deployment for Leicester blocked ("cup-tied"). In 2002 Impey had to accompany a first division relegation of his club for the second time in his career , which was followed by a further course in the second division in 2004 after the immediate resurgence . Shortly before the third relegation, he left the club in February 2004 for Nottingham Forest. The 2004/05 season was similar, when Nottingham saw his next relegation and in March 2005 he helped out on loan from second division rivals Millwall until the end of the season. After a senior year in the second division with Coventry City , he retired in 2006.

In April 2015 Impey began to work in the coaching staff of the youth academy of his ex-club Queens Park Rangers and after initially working on a voluntary basis, he got a permanent position in October.

Title / Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - U-21 International Results 1986-1995 - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ^ Hugman, Barry J .: Premier League: The Players - A Complete Guide to Every Player 1992-93 . Tony Williams Publishing, 1992, ISBN 978-1-869833-15-2 , pp. 207 .
  3. ^ "Interview: Andy Impey" (Forgot about him)
  4. ^ "Andy Impey back at QPR in Academy role" (qpr.co.uk)
personal data
SURNAME Impey, Andy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Impey, Andrew Rodney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammersmith , London