Bob McNab

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Bob McNab
Personnel
Surname Robert McNab
birthday July 20, 1943
place of birth Huddersfield ,  England
position Full-back (left)
Juniors
Years station
Moldgreen YC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1966 Huddersfield Town 68 (0)
1966-1975 Arsenal FC 278 (4)
1975-1976 Wolverhampton Wanderers 13 (0)
1976 San Antonio Thunder 12 (1)
1976-1977 Barnet FC
1979 Vancouver Whitecaps 2 (0)
Indoor
Years station Games (goals) 1
1983-1984 Tacoma Stars 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1968-1969 England 4 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1980 Vancouver Whitecaps
1983 Tacoma Stars (Indoor)
1985-1986 Tacoma Stars (Indoor)
1994-1995 San Jose Grizzlies (Indoor)
1999-2000 Portsmouth FC (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Robert "Bob" McNab (born July 20, 1943 in Huddersfield ) is a former English football player and coach . As a left full -back he was a regular at Arsenal FC in the late 1960s and early 1970s , with whom he won the trade fair cup in 1970 and the “double” from the English championship and the FA Cup the following year .

Athletic career

In his hometown McNab joined the local professional club Huddersfield Town early and in February 1962 he signed the first professional contract. As a young defender, he completed two first championship games with the second division team in the 1963/64 season and the sporting breakthrough came in the 1965/66 season when he did not miss a single of 42 league matches. As a result, he was in the focus of some first division clubs and shortly after the start of the 1966/67 season, he moved to Arsenal for £ 40,000 in October 1966 - the highest transfer fee for a full-back in English football to date .

Right away, McNab established himself in the defense formation of the "Gunners" and by the end of the 1960s he was a fixture at the side of players like Pat Rice and Frank McLintock . The switch from man to zone cover under coach Bertie Mee and his co- coach Don Howe also played an important role in his career . Proof of this success was the reduction in goals conceded from 56 in the 1967/68 league season to just 27 the following year . During this time his four international matches for the English senior team fell between November 6, 1968 against Romania and May 3, 1969 against Northern Ireland , which ended without defeat, but also with only one win. McNab's first title win was the trade fair cup in April 1970 and in both final games against RSC Anderlecht (1: 3, 3: 0) he was on the pitch for the full season. He celebrated his greatest success the following year when he contributed 62 missions to win the "double" from the English championship and the FA Cup . He had to pay tribute the following year to the fact that he had often played in spite of injuries, and so he missed most of the games in the 1971/72 season. He also paused for a long time on the way to defending his title in the FA Cup before he returned in the semi-finals against Stoke City and also faced Leeds United (0-1) in the subsequent final . His long-time rival Sammy Nelson on the left side of defense was only given sporadically from the 1973/74 season onwards and McNab finally made room at the end of the 1974/75 season when, after a total of nine years for Arsenal, he transferred the club to the first division competitor free of charge Wolverhampton Wanderers left. The only one-year stay with the "Wolves" was disappointing and after thirteen missions at the beginning of the season, McNab did not get a chance from November 1975 - in the end there was relegation to the second division .

From the second half of the 1970s, McNab increasingly sought his luck in North American professional football and after a first brief attempt in 1976 at San Antonio Thunder and an intermittent return to England at FC Barnet (until 1977), his engagement in Vancouver was from 1979 with the Whitecaps more sustainable. In the Canadian city, where his daughter Mercedes - who later became known as an actress and photo model - was born, he won the Soccer Bowl, primarily in the role of assistant coach . In Vancouver, he also worked briefly as head coach before moving to professional indoor football after finishing his own active career . In "indoor soccer" he trained the Tacoma Stars in the mid-1980s and even played a game himself in the current competition. McNab later moved to Los Angeles where he started working for a property developer. In the mid-1990s, he was in charge of indoor soccer for the San Jose Grizzlies . The team belonged to the Serbian businessman Milan Mandarić and almost five years later McNab was part of a Mandarić-led consortium in 1999 that took over Portsmouth FC . In December 1999 McNab held after the dismissal of Alan Ball interim in Portsmouth from the head coaching and gave it up after the commitment of Tony Pulis in January 2000 from again. His other activities from the mid-1990s onwards included arranging transfers of players from North and Central America to England, including those of Brad Friedel and Paulo Wanchope . Together with Paul Mariner , McNab got involved as technical director for Adidas as part of the establishment of the US support program ESP (“Elite Soccer Program”), which was later taken over by a group around Jürgen Klinsmann .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Catching up with Bob McNab Part II" ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Arsenal.com)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arsenal.com
personal data
SURNAME McNab, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McNab, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Huddersfield , England