Bobby Arber

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Bobby Arber
Personnel
Surname Robert Leonard Arber
birthday January 13, 1951
place of birth Poplar ,  England
position Full-back
Juniors
Years station
Arsenal FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968-1974 FC Orient 31 (0)
1974 →  Southend United  (loan) 0 (0)
1974–? Johannesburg Rangers
1976/77 Tooting & Mitcham United 7 (0)
1978-1980 Barking FC (0)
1979-1980 Sacramento Gold
1981 Atlanta Chiefs 15 (0)
1982-1983 Dagenham FC 13 (1)
1983-1984 Dartford FC
1984-1985 Woodford Town
1985-1986 Barking FC (0)
Indoor
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1981 Atlanta Chiefs 18 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1985-1986 FC Barking (player-coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Leonard "Bobby" Arber (born January 13, 1951 in Poplar ) is a former English football player . Arber played during his professional career for clubs in England, South Africa and the United States, later he worked in the youth division of Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal FC .

Career

Arber moved in March 1968 within London from the youth division of Arsenal FC to FC Orient . After he had already come to some missions at the end of the 1971/72 season , he received after Dennis Rofe's departure to Leicester City in August 1972 under coach George Petchey more times and came in the season 1972/73 to 28 league appearances, mostly as left full-back. After he was informed in October 1973 that he could leave the club and that he played his only competitive game of the season for Orient in the FA Cup at the beginning of January 1974 , he joined the third division Southend United on loan for a short time at the end of January 1974 before joining the March moved to South Africa to the Johannesburg Rangers .

Presumably after the league was closed in 1977, his son Mark Arber - later also a professional footballer - was born in South Africa in October 1977, he returned to England. Already in the 1976/77 season Arber had played seven league games for Tooting & Mitcham United in the Isthmian League , from 1978 to 1980 he played 91 competitive games (1 goal) for league rivals FC Barking . In 1979 he made his first appearance in the US American Soccer League at Sacramento Gold , the team coached by Bill Williams around goalkeeper Peta Bala'c and top scorer Ian Filby won the championship that season. After another season at Sacramento, Arber joined the Atlanta Chiefs , for whom he appeared in the North American Soccer League in both indoor soccer and on the full field .

Back in England he played 13 games (1 goal) in the fifth-rate Alliance Premier League for Dagenham FC in the 1982/83 season , and in the 1983/84 season he won the Southern League championship with Dartford FC . In the team he was next to Tony Burman , Terry Sullivan, Francis Cowley , Dave Jacques, Tony Pamphlett and Bob Makin to the outstanding players. He also reached the first main round of the FA Cup with the team (1: 2 defeat at Millwall FC ) and the final of the Southern League Cup (0: 3 defeat after extra time in the second leg against AP Leamington ). After winning the title, he moved to Woodford Town , from January 1985 to the end of 1986 he was again active as a player-coach at Barking, but in two years he only ran eleven times.

He later became a youth coach at Tottenham Hotspur and coached the future national players Narada Bernard , Peter Crouch and Ledley King , among others . The latter described Arber's training methods as “old school”, with a focus on conditioning exercises and the emphasis on “drive, determination and will ”. In 1996 he won the prestigious Milk Cup with the club's U16s . In 1999 he became a full-time scout at Arsenal FC , in early 2008 he came under fire for allegedly urging underage foreign players to change advisory agencies. In 2015 he was still employed in the youth division of Arsenal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bobby Arber in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ^ A b Neilson N. Kaufman: The Men Who Made Leyton Orient Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2002, ISBN 0-7524-2412-2 , pp. 18 .
  3. ^ Neilson N. Kaufman and Alan E. Ravenhill: Leyton Orient: The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2006, ISBN 1-85983-480-9 , pp. 430 f .
  4. ↑ Peter Dunk (Ed.): Rothmans Football Yearbook 1974-75 . Queen Anne Press, London 1974, ISBN 0-362-00171-5 , pp. 514 .
  5. ↑ lc4mkm.xara.hosting: ORIENT - THE PETCHEY YEARS 1973/4 , accessed on August 14, 2019
  6. ↑ telegraph.co.uk: Arsenal academy coach Mark Arber investigated over alleged bet on Mesut Ozil transfer from Real Madrid (September 6, 2013) , accessed on August 15, 2019
  7. ↑ tmu-fc.co.uk: SEASON 1976-77 , accessed on August 14, 2019
  8. ↑ barking-fc.co.uk: Season 1978/79 , accessed on August 15, 2019
  9. ↑ barking-fc.co.uk: Season 1979/80 , accessed on August 15, 2019
  10. ↑ nasljerseys.com: Bobby Arber , accessed August 15, 2019
  11. ↑ cf. John Harman: Alliance to Conference 1979-2004: The First 25 Years . Tony Williams Publications, 2005, ISBN 978-1-869833-52-7 , pp. 176 ff .
  12. ^ Leigh Edwards: The Official Centenary History of the SOUTHERN LEAGUE . Paper Plane Publishing, Halesowen 1993, ISBN 978-1-871872-08-8 , pp. 122 .
  13. ↑ 25 YEARS AGO . In: Kent on Sunday , August 2, 2009, p. 68. 
  14. ↑ barking-fc.co.uk: PAST MANAGERS , accessed August 15, 2019
  15. ^ Uphill task for Arber . In: The Daily Telegraph , Jan 5, 1985, p. 30. 
  16. ↑ barking-fc.co.uk: Season 1984/85 , accessed on August 15, 2019
  17. ↑ barking-fc.co.uk: Season 1985/86 , accessed on August 15, 2019
  18. ↑ barking-fc.co.uk: Season 1986/87 , accessed on August 15, 2019
  19. ↑ Ledley King: King: My Autobiography . Quercus, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-78206-907-2 .
  20. ↑ hotspurhq.com: Tottenham Hotspur at the NI Milk Cup , accessed August 15, 2019
  21. ↑ standard.co.uk: Arsenal say sorry over approach to youth player (January 20, 2008) , accessed August 15, 2019
  22. ↑ dailymail.co.uk: Arsenal say sorry over approach to youth player (January 19, 2008) , accessed August 15, 2019
  23. ↑ scouting-team.com: Scouting Team, with Arsenal FC and Brighton & Hove Albion FC, on trip to Bulgaria (March 2, 2015) , accessed on August 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Arber, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arber, Robert Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Poplar